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  5. CarrierWave vs Shrine vs Uppy

CarrierWave vs Shrine vs Uppy

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Overview

CarrierWave
CarrierWave
Stacks160
Followers93
Votes3
GitHub Stars8.8K
Forks1.7K
Shrine
Shrine
Stacks13
Followers23
Votes0
Uppy
Uppy
Stacks92
Followers142
Votes6
GitHub Stars30.4K
Forks2.1K

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Detailed Comparison

CarrierWave
CarrierWave
Shrine
Shrine
Uppy
Uppy

This gem provides a simple and extremely flexible way to upload files from Ruby applications. It works well with Rack based web applications, such as Ruby on Rails.

Shrine implements a plugin system analogous to Roda’s and Sequel’s. Shrine ships with over 25 plugins, which together provide a great arsenal of features. Where CarrierWave and other file upload libraries favor complex class-level DSLs, Shrine favours simple instance-level interface.

Uppy is a sleek modular file uploader for web browsers. Add it to your app with one line of code, or build a custom version with just the plugins you need via Webpack/Browserify. 100% open source, backed by a company (Transloadit).

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React (Native) support (planned);ES6;Modular setup;Drag & Drop;Aware of encoding/processing; Copy & Paste; Encoding; Resumable File Uploads; Themable, with a beautiful default;Webcam;Import from Dropbox; Import from Google Drive; Import from Instagram
Statistics
GitHub Stars
8.8K
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Stars
30.4K
GitHub Forks
1.7K
GitHub Forks
-
GitHub Forks
2.1K
Stacks
160
Stacks
13
Stacks
92
Followers
93
Followers
23
Followers
142
Votes
3
Votes
0
Votes
6
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 2
    Sophisticated and Easy file uploading
  • 1
    Easty setup
No community feedback yet
Pros
  • 3
    Copy & Paste support
  • 3
    Open Source & Self Hosted
Cons
  • 1
    Takes time to configure
Integrations
Amazon S3
Amazon S3
Rackspace Cloud Files
Rackspace Cloud Files
Rails
Rails
Sinatra
Sinatra
Ruby
Ruby
Ruby
Ruby
Amazon S3
Amazon S3
Dropbox
Dropbox
Transloadit
Transloadit
Google Drive
Google Drive

What are some alternatives to CarrierWave, Shrine, Uppy?

Uploadcare

Uploadcare

Uploadcare is file management platform and a CDN for user-generated content. It is a robust file API for uploading, managing, processing, rendering, optimizing, and delivering users’ content.

Transloadit

Transloadit

Transloadit handles file uploading & file processing for your websites and mobile apps. We can process video, audio, images and documents.

Bytescale

Bytescale

Bytescale is the best way to serve images, videos, and audio for web apps. Includes: Fast CDN, Storage, and Media Processing APIs.

Filestack

Filestack

Filepicker helps developers connect to their users' content. Connect, Store, and Process any file from anywhere on the Internet.

Paperclip

Paperclip

It is intended as an easy file attachment library for ActiveRecord. The intent behind it was to keep setup as easy as possible and to treat files as much like other attributes as possible.

FilePond

FilePond

A JavaScript library that can upload anything you throw at it, optimizes images for faster uploads and offers a great, accessible, silky smooth user experience.

tus.io

tus.io

Open protocol for resumable file uploads

CameraTag

CameraTag

With one line of code you can easily start collecting videos for applications ranging from video-comments to talent competitions, political action, virtual interviews, talent scouting and more.<br>

Flatfile

Flatfile

The drop-in data importer that implements in hours, not weeks. Give your users the import experience you always dreamed of, but never had time to build.

jQuery File Upload

jQuery File Upload

It is a File Upload widget with multiple file selection, drag&drop support, progress bar, validation and preview images, audio and video for jQuery. Supports cross-domain, chunked and resumable file uploads. Works with any server-side platform (Google App Engine, PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, Java, etc.) that supports standard HTML form file uploads.

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