File Upload with Spatie Media Library

Now, let's add a file upload field to the Tasks CRUD.

Prepare Back-End: Spatie Media Library

Let's install a well-known package spatie/laravel-medialibrary to handle the file data.

composer require "spatie/laravel-medialibrary"

Then, according to its documentation, we need to publish and run migrations:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\MediaLibrary\MediaLibraryServiceProvider" --tag="medialibrary-migrations"
php artisan migrate

Finally, we add the appropriate Traits to the Task Model file.

app/Models/Task.php:

use Spatie\MediaLibrary\HasMedia; 
use Spatie\MediaLibrary\InteractsWithMedia; 
 
// ...
 
class Task extends Model
class Task extends Model implements HasMedia//[ tl! ++]
{
    use HasFactory;
    use InteractsWithMedia;
 
    // ...

Ok, the package installation/configuration is ready. Let's dive into the forms.

File Upload in Create Form: Front-End

This time, let's start with the front end.

For reference, here's the Inertia documentation on File Uploads.

Let's see how our Create.tsx file needs to change.

• We add media to the CreateTaskForm and useForm
• We add a progress indicator from Inertia
• We add the <Input> for the file picker

We start with the TypeScript changes...