You may want to see "file-reader" if you haven't seen it already:
https://github.com/simonh1000/file-reader

On Friday, May 5, 2017 at 1:32:46 PM UTC-4, Kasey Speakman wrote:
>
> After a bit of research on file uploads, I pared it down to the simplest 
> method I could find. Here is the recipe I came up with.
>
> https://gist.github.com/kspeakman/20708d5ff58b6ea75f9c3a82f6c793c3
>
> The FileUtils module essentially wraps the JS File object in Http.Body as 
> well as exposing common file info (name, size, contentType). Using 
> Http.Body makes it quite easy to send files with normal Http calls. 
> Unfortunately this does use native/kernel code, but this made it far easier 
> to work with in Elm than if I used ports. I did actually try using decoders 
> first to pull in the "e.target.files" property as a Value, but Elm just 
> fails to decode it.
>
> I also thought something like this could be a path forward to introduce 
> basic file uploads into Elm's core. It is not a general solution for all 
> binary formats. But it is a straightforward way to handle File objects from 
> JS.
>

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