Implementing ng-file-upload in Angular 2 app

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We needed to implement drag drop file input feature in one of our Angular 2 app.

We selected ng-file-upload for this.

We tried to follow the help page. As suggested, implemented drag-upload-input.html & drag-upload-input.component.ts like the following:

drag-upload-input.html

<!-- we only need single file upload -->
<input type="file" ng2FileSelect [uploader]="uploader" />

drag-upload-input.component.ts

import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { FileUploader } from 'ng2-file-upload';

// const URL = '/api/';
const URL = 'https://evening-anchorage-3159.herokuapp.com/api/';

@Component({
  moduleId: module.id,
  selector: 'drag-upload-input',
  templateUrl: './drag-upload-input.html'
})
export class DragUploadInput {
  public uploader: FileUploader = new FileUploader({ url: URL });
  public hasBaseDropZoneOver: boolean = false;
  public hasAnotherDropZoneOver: boolean = false;

  public fileOverBase(e: any): void {
    this.hasBaseDropZoneOver = e;
  }

  public fileOverAnother(e: any): void {
    this.hasAnotherDropZoneOver = e;
  }
}

The app.module.ts has got FileUploadModule like this:

// File upload modules
import { FileUploadModule } from 'ng2-file-upload';
import { DragUploadInput } from './file-upload/drag-upload-input.component';

//other imports

@NgModule({
  imports: [ ... other imports
FileUploadModule
],
  declarations: [  ... other declarations
DragUploadInput],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

And the systemjs.config.js looks like this:

(function (global) {
  System.config({
    // map tells the System loader where to look for things
    map: {
      // other libraries
      'ng2-file-upload': 'node_modules/ng2-file-upload',
    },
    packages: {
	  // other packages
      ng2-file-upload': {
        main: 'ng2-file-upload.js',
        defaultExtension: 'js'
      }
    }
  });
})(this);

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