This is the second post in a series about uploading files for the web. In this post, we use JavaScript to create the file upload request.

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In order to access a file on a user’s device, we had to use an HTML form. We still need the file input to access the files on the device. browsers have a Fetch API that we can use to make HTTP requests without forms.

How to Upload Files With JavaScript

<p>In the previous post, we learned that in order to access a file on the user’s device, we had to use an HTML form. We still need the file input to access the files on the device. However, browsers have a Fetch API(<a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API</a>) that we can use to make HTTP requests without forms.</p>
