Blogpost on tus.io

Main content:

• no GUI, only an API
• replaces tus-jquery-client
• (modern) browser support

Structure:

• 1.0 was just released
• rewrite and update of SDKs
• new js-client
• supports resumability and and progress events
• integration with npm and without a package manager
• replaces jquery-client
• bla, blab, …

After releasing the first production-ready version of the tus protocol, we still have another announcement we would like to share with the world: During the last months, we have not only improved the protocol and added long requested features, we also spent a lot of time with proper implementations. This resulted in a full rewrite of tusd, a tus server written in Go. In the same breath we want to announce a new and officially maintained client library, called tus-js-client. It is meant for the use in web applications and enables simple integration using a few lines of code:

input.addEventListener("change", function(e) {
    // Get the selected file from the input element
    var file = e.target.files[0]

    // Create a new tus upload
    var upload = new tus.Upload(file, {
        endpoint: "http://localhost:1080/files/",
        onSuccess: function() {
            console.log("Download %s from %s", upload.file.name, upload.url)
        }
    })

    // Start the upload
    upload.start()
})

The JavaScript client library supports, both, resumable uploads and progress events out of the box without any additional setup, while depending on no runtime-dependecy and staying as light-weight as possible. You can install it by simple, including the file using a script tag:

<script src="http://tus.io/assets/tus-js-client.min.js"></script>

or by consuming NPM or similar packet managers. For more information about this topic, please have a look at the appropriate documentation.

Packed with all these features, the new JavaScript library replaces the old tus-jquery-client, which was introduced along with the first drafts of our protocol. The problem with latter project is that - as you can probably guess by looking at its name - it depended on jQuery. Without doubt, jQuery makes a developer's life easier and allows extremely simple code but it's costs was not worth the use in our library. In the end we decided to drop this big dependency and introduce a new, lightweight and simple project: tus-js-client was born.