Angular 6 Firebase - Upload/Display/Delete Images from Storage

In the post, we have known how to upload file to Firebase Storage. This tutorial shows you way to upload, get, delete Images in a simple Angular 6 App.

I. Technology

– Angular 6
– AngularFire2 5.0

II. How to do

1. Set up the Firebase Project & Install AngularFire2

Please visit this post to know step by step.

2. Upload File Service

– upload file to Storage and file’s info to Database.
– get List Files from Firebase Storage by files’info (name/url) stored in Database.
– delete file with 2 steps: delete file’s info from Database, then delete file from Storage

export class UploadFileService {

  private basePath = '/uploads';

  constructor(private db: AngularFireDatabase) { }

  pushFileToStorage(fileUpload: FileUpload) {
    const storageRef = firebase.storage().ref();
    storageRef.child(`${this.basePath}/${fileUpload.file.name}`).put(fileUpload.file);

    fileUpload.url = downloadURL;
    fileUpload.name = fileName;
    this.saveFileData(fileUpload);
  }

  private saveFileData(fileUpload: FileUpload) {
    this.db.list(`${this.basePath}/`).push(fileUpload);
  }

  getFileUploads(numberItems): AngularFireList<FileUpload> {
    return this.db.list(this.basePath, ref =>
      ref.limitToLast(numberItems));
  }

  deleteFileUpload(fileUpload: FileUpload) {
    this.deleteFileDatabase(fileUpload.key)
      .then(() => {
        this.deleteFileStorage(fileUpload.name);
      })
      .catch(error => console.log(error));
  }

  private deleteFileDatabase(key: string) {
    return this.db.list(`${this.basePath}/`).remove(key);
  }

  private deleteFileStorage(name: string) {
    const storageRef = firebase.storage().ref();
    storageRef.child(`${this.basePath}/${name}`).delete();
  }
}

export class UploadFileService {

private basePath = '/uploads';

constructor(private db: AngularFireDatabase) { }

pushFileToStorage(fileUpload: FileUpload) {

const storageRef = firebase.storage().ref();

storageRef.child(`${this.basePath}/${fileUpload.file.name}`).put(fileUpload.file);

fileUpload.url = downloadURL;

fileUpload.name = fileName;

this.saveFileData(fileUpload);

}

private saveFileData(fileUpload: FileUpload) {

this.db.list(`${this.basePath}/`).push(fileUpload);

}

getFileUploads(numberItems): AngularFireList<FileUpload> {

return this.db.list(this.basePath, ref =>

ref.limitToLast(numberItems));

}

deleteFileUpload(fileUpload: FileUpload) {

this.deleteFileDatabase(fileUpload.key)

.then(() => {

this.deleteFileStorage(fileUpload.name);

})

.catch(error => console.log(error));

}

private deleteFileDatabase(key: string) {

return this.db.list(`${this.basePath}/`).remove(key);

}

private deleteFileStorage(name: string) {

const storageRef = firebase.storage().ref();

storageRef.child(`${this.basePath}/${name}`).delete();

}

To know how to save file info to Firebase Realtime Database, please visit previous post:
Angular 4 Firebase – Upload File to Storage

3. Get and display List of Images

import { map } from 'rxjs/operators';

import { UploadFileService } from '../upload-file.service';

@Component({
  selector: 'list-upload',
  templateUrl: './list-upload.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./list-upload.component.css']
})
export class ListUploadComponent implements OnInit {

  fileUploads: any[];

  constructor(private uploadService: UploadFileService) { }

  ngOnInit() {
    // Use snapshotChanges().pipe(map()) to store the key
    this.uploadService.getFileUploads(6).snapshotChanges().pipe(
      map(changes =>
        changes.map(c => ({ key: c.payload.key, ...c.payload.val() }))
      )
    ).subscribe(fileUploads => {
      this.fileUploads = fileUploads;
    });
  }
}

import { map } from 'rxjs/operators';

import { UploadFileService } from '../upload-file.service';

@Component({

selector: 'list-upload',

templateUrl: './list-upload.component.html',

styleUrls: ['./list-upload.component.css']

})

export class ListUploadComponent implements OnInit {

fileUploads: any[];

constructor(private uploadService: UploadFileService) { }

ngOnInit() {

// Use snapshotChanges().pipe(map()) to store the key

this.uploadService.getFileUploads(6).snapshotChanges().pipe(

map(changes =>

changes.map(c => ({ key: c.payload.key, ...c.payload.val() }))

)

).subscribe(fileUploads => {

this.fileUploads = fileUploads;

});

}

HTML template:

<div *ngFor="let file of fileUploads">
	{{file.name}}
	<img src="{{file.url}}"/>
</div>

</div>

4. Check image format

if (file.type.match('image.*')) {
  // do something
} else {
  alert('invalid format!');
}

if (file.type.match('image.*')) {

// do something

} else {

alert('invalid format!');

}

III. Practice

1. Project Overview

1.1 Goal

We will build an Angular 6 Firebase App that can:
– helps user choose image file from local and upload it to Firebase Storage
– show progress with percentage
– save image metadata to Firebase Realtime Database
(Functions above from the posts: Angular 4 Firebase – Upload File to Storage)
– get list Images and display

angular-6-firebase-storage-tutorial-upload-get-images-result

1.2 Structure

angular-6-firebase-storage-tutorial-upload-get-images-storage-project-structure

2. Step by step

2.1 Set up the Firebase Project & Install AngularFire2

Please visit this post to know step by step.

*Note: Don’t forget to set RULES for public read/write Database and Storage.

angular-6-firebase-storage-tutorial-upload-get-files-storage-rules

2.2 Add Firebase config to environments variable

Open /src/environments/environment.ts, add your Firebase configuration that we have saved when Popup window was shown:

export const environment = {
  production: false,
  firebase: {
    apiKey: 'xxx',
    authDomain: 'jsa-angular6.firebaseapp.com',
    databaseURL: 'https://jsa-angular6.firebaseio.com',
    projectId: 'jsa-angular6',
    storageBucket: 'jsa-angular6.appspot.com',
    messagingSenderId: 'xxx'
  }
};

export const environment = {

production: false,

firebase: {

apiKey: 'xxx',

authDomain: 'jsa-angular6.firebaseapp.com',

databaseURL: 'https://jsa-angular6.firebaseio.com',

projectId: 'jsa-angular6',

storageBucket: 'jsa-angular6.appspot.com',

messagingSenderId: 'xxx'

}

};

2.3 Create Service & Components

Run the commands below:
– ng g s upload/UploadFile
– ng g c upload/FormUpload
– ng g c upload/ListUpload
– ng g c upload/DetailsUpload

2.4 Setup @NgModule

app.module.ts

import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';

import { AngularFireDatabaseModule } from 'angularfire2/database';
import { AngularFireModule } from 'angularfire2';
import { environment } from '../environments/environment';

import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { FormUploadComponent } from './upload/form-upload/form-upload.component';
import { ListUploadComponent } from './upload/list-upload/list-upload.component';
import { DetailsUploadComponent } from './upload/details-upload/details-upload.component';

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AppComponent,
    FormUploadComponent,
    ListUploadComponent,
    DetailsUploadComponent
  ],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    AngularFireModule.initializeApp(environment.firebase),
    AngularFireDatabaseModule
  ],
  providers: [],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';

import { AngularFireDatabaseModule } from 'angularfire2/database';

import { AngularFireModule } from 'angularfire2';

import { environment } from '../environments/environment';

import { AppComponent } from './app.component';

import { FormUploadComponent } from './upload/form-upload/form-upload.component';

import { ListUploadComponent } from './upload/list-upload/list-upload.component';

import { DetailsUploadComponent } from './upload/details-upload/details-upload.component';

@NgModule({

declarations: [

AppComponent,

FormUploadComponent,

ListUploadComponent,

DetailsUploadComponent

imports: [

BrowserModule,

AngularFireModule.initializeApp(environment.firebase),

AngularFireDatabaseModule

providers: [],

bootstrap: [AppComponent]

})

export class AppModule { }

2.5 Model Class

fileupload.ts

export class FileUpload {

    key: string;
    name: string;
    url: string;
    file: File;

    constructor(file: File) {
        this.file = file;
    }
}

export class FileUpload {

key: string;

name: string;

url: string;

file: File;

constructor(file: File) {

this.file = file;

}

2.6 Service

upload-file.service.ts

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { AngularFireDatabase, AngularFireList } from 'angularfire2/database';
import * as firebase from 'firebase/app';
import 'firebase/storage';

import { FileUpload } from './fileupload';

@Injectable({
  providedIn: 'root'
})
export class UploadFileService {

  private basePath = '/uploads';

  constructor(private db: AngularFireDatabase) { }

  pushFileToStorage(fileUpload: FileUpload, progress: { percentage: number }) {
    const storageRef = firebase.storage().ref();
    const uploadTask = storageRef.child(`${this.basePath}/${fileUpload.file.name}`).put(fileUpload.file);

    uploadTask.on(firebase.storage.TaskEvent.STATE_CHANGED,
      (snapshot) => {
        // in progress
        const snap = snapshot as firebase.storage.UploadTaskSnapshot;
        progress.percentage = Math.round((snap.bytesTransferred / snap.totalBytes) * 100);
      },
      (error) => {
        // fail
        console.log(error);
      },
      () => {
        // success
        uploadTask.snapshot.ref.getDownloadURL().then(downloadURL => {
          console.log('File available at', downloadURL);
          fileUpload.url = downloadURL;
          fileUpload.name = fileUpload.file.name;
          this.saveFileData(fileUpload);
        });
      }
    );
  }

  private saveFileData(fileUpload: FileUpload) {
    this.db.list(`${this.basePath}/`).push(fileUpload);
  }

  getFileUploads(numberItems): AngularFireList<FileUpload> {
    return this.db.list(this.basePath, ref =>
      ref.limitToLast(numberItems));
  }

  deleteFileUpload(fileUpload: FileUpload) {
    this.deleteFileDatabase(fileUpload.key)
      .then(() => {
        this.deleteFileStorage(fileUpload.name);
      })
      .catch(error => console.log(error));
  }

  private deleteFileDatabase(key: string) {
    return this.db.list(`${this.basePath}/`).remove(key);
  }

  private deleteFileStorage(name: string) {
    const storageRef = firebase.storage().ref();
    storageRef.child(`${this.basePath}/${name}`).delete();
  }
}

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';

import { AngularFireDatabase, AngularFireList } from 'angularfire2/database';

import * as firebase from 'firebase/app';

import 'firebase/storage';

import { FileUpload } from './fileupload';

@Injectable({

providedIn: 'root'

})

export class UploadFileService {

private basePath = '/uploads';

constructor(private db: AngularFireDatabase) { }

pushFileToStorage(fileUpload: FileUpload, progress: { percentage: number }) {

const storageRef = firebase.storage().ref();

const uploadTask = storageRef.child(`${this.basePath}/${fileUpload.file.name}`).put(fileUpload.file);

uploadTask.on(firebase.storage.TaskEvent.STATE_CHANGED,

(snapshot) => {

// in progress

const snap = snapshot as firebase.storage.UploadTaskSnapshot;

progress.percentage = Math.round((snap.bytesTransferred / snap.totalBytes) * 100);

(error) => {

// fail

console.log(error);

() => {

// success

uploadTask.snapshot.ref.getDownloadURL().then(downloadURL => {

console.log('File available at', downloadURL);

fileUpload.url = downloadURL;

fileUpload.name = fileUpload.file.name;

this.saveFileData(fileUpload);

});

}

);

}

private saveFileData(fileUpload: FileUpload) {

this.db.list(`${this.basePath}/`).push(fileUpload);

}

getFileUploads(numberItems): AngularFireList<FileUpload> {

return this.db.list(this.basePath, ref =>

ref.limitToLast(numberItems));

}

deleteFileUpload(fileUpload: FileUpload) {

this.deleteFileDatabase(fileUpload.key)

.then(() => {

this.deleteFileStorage(fileUpload.name);

})

.catch(error => console.log(error));

}

private deleteFileDatabase(key: string) {

return this.db.list(`${this.basePath}/`).remove(key);

}

private deleteFileStorage(name: string) {

const storageRef = firebase.storage().ref();

storageRef.child(`${this.basePath}/${name}`).delete();

}

2.7 Form Upload Compoment

form-upload.component.ts

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { UploadFileService } from '../upload-file.service';
import { FileUpload } from '../fileupload';

@Component({
  selector: 'form-upload',
  templateUrl: './form-upload.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./form-upload.component.css']
})
export class FormUploadComponent implements OnInit {

  selectedFiles: FileList;
  currentFileUpload: FileUpload;
  progress: { percentage: number } = { percentage: 0 };

  constructor(private uploadService: UploadFileService) { }

  ngOnInit() {
  }

  selectFile(event) {
    const file = event.target.files.item(0);

    if (file.type.match('image.*')) {
      this.selectedFiles = event.target.files;
    } else {
      alert('invalid format!');
    }
  }

  upload() {
    const file = this.selectedFiles.item(0);
    this.selectedFiles = undefined;

    this.currentFileUpload = new FileUpload(file);
    this.uploadService.pushFileToStorage(this.currentFileUpload, this.progress);
  }
}

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';

import { UploadFileService } from '../upload-file.service';

import { FileUpload } from '../fileupload';

@Component({

selector: 'form-upload',

templateUrl: './form-upload.component.html',

styleUrls: ['./form-upload.component.css']

})

export class FormUploadComponent implements OnInit {

selectedFiles: FileList;

currentFileUpload: FileUpload;

progress: { percentage: number } = { percentage: 0 };

constructor(private uploadService: UploadFileService) { }

ngOnInit() {

}

selectFile(event) {

const file = event.target.files.item(0);

if (file.type.match('image.*')) {

this.selectedFiles = event.target.files;

} else {

alert('invalid format!');

}

upload() {

const file = this.selectedFiles.item(0);

this.selectedFiles = undefined;

this.currentFileUpload = new FileUpload(file);

this.uploadService.pushFileToStorage(this.currentFileUpload, this.progress);

}

form-upload.component.html:

<div *ngIf="currentFileUpload" class="progress">
	<div class="progress-bar progress-bar-info progress-bar-striped"
		role="progressbar" attr.aria-valuenow="{{progress.percentage}}"
		aria-valuemin="0" aria-valuemax="100"
		[ngStyle]="{width:progress.percentage+'%'}">
		{{progress.percentage}}%</div>
</div>
 
<label class="btn btn-default"> <input type="file"
	(change)="selectFile($event)">
</label>
 
<button class="btn btn-success" [disabled]="!selectedFiles"
	(click)="upload()">Upload</button>

<div class="progress-bar progress-bar-info progress-bar-striped"

role="progressbar" attr.aria-valuenow="{{progress.percentage}}"

aria-valuemin="0" aria-valuemax="100"

[ngStyle]="{width:progress.percentage+'%'}">

{{progress.percentage}}%</div>

</div>

<label class="btn btn-default"> <input type="file"

(change)="selectFile($event)">

</label>

<button class="btn btn-success" [disabled]="!selectedFiles"

(click)="upload()">Upload</button>

2.8 DetailsUpload Component

details-upload.component.ts

import { Component, OnInit, Input } from '@angular/core';
import { FileUpload } from '../fileupload';
import { UploadFileService } from '../upload-file.service';

@Component({
  selector: 'details-upload',
  templateUrl: './details-upload.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./details-upload.component.css']
})
export class DetailsUploadComponent implements OnInit {

  @Input() fileUpload: FileUpload;

  constructor(private uploadService: UploadFileService) { }

  ngOnInit() {
  }

  deleteFileUpload(fileUpload) {
    this.uploadService.deleteFileUpload(fileUpload);
  }
}

import { Component, OnInit, Input } from '@angular/core';

import { FileUpload } from '../fileupload';

import { UploadFileService } from '../upload-file.service';

@Component({

selector: 'details-upload',

templateUrl: './details-upload.component.html',

styleUrls: ['./details-upload.component.css']

})

export class DetailsUploadComponent implements OnInit {

@Input() fileUpload: FileUpload;

constructor(private uploadService: UploadFileService) { }

ngOnInit() {

}

deleteFileUpload(fileUpload) {

this.uploadService.deleteFileUpload(fileUpload);

}

details-upload.component.html

{{fileUpload.name}}
<button (click)='deleteFileUpload(fileUpload)' class="btn btn-danger btn-xs" style="float: right">Delete</button>
<img src="{{fileUpload.url}}" alt="{{fileUpload.name}}" style="max-width:350px" />

<button (click)='deleteFileUpload(fileUpload)' class="btn btn-danger btn-xs" style="float: right">Delete</button>

2.9 ListUpload Component

list-upload.component.ts

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { map } from 'rxjs/operators';

import { UploadFileService } from '../upload-file.service';

@Component({
  selector: 'list-upload',
  templateUrl: './list-upload.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./list-upload.component.css']
})
export class ListUploadComponent implements OnInit {

  fileUploads: any[];

  constructor(private uploadService: UploadFileService) { }

  ngOnInit() {
    // Use snapshotChanges().pipe(map()) to store the key
    this.uploadService.getFileUploads(6).snapshotChanges().pipe(
      map(changes =>
        changes.map(c => ({ key: c.payload.key, ...c.payload.val() }))
      )
    ).subscribe(fileUploads => {
      this.fileUploads = fileUploads;
    });
  }
}

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';

import { map } from 'rxjs/operators';

import { UploadFileService } from '../upload-file.service';

@Component({

selector: 'list-upload',

templateUrl: './list-upload.component.html',

styleUrls: ['./list-upload.component.css']

})

export class ListUploadComponent implements OnInit {

fileUploads: any[];

constructor(private uploadService: UploadFileService) { }

ngOnInit() {

// Use snapshotChanges().pipe(map()) to store the key

this.uploadService.getFileUploads(6).snapshotChanges().pipe(

map(changes =>

changes.map(c => ({ key: c.payload.key, ...c.payload.val() }))

)

).subscribe(fileUploads => {

this.fileUploads = fileUploads;

});

}

list-upload.component.html

<div class="panel panel-primary">
  <div class="panel-heading">List of Images</div>
  <div *ngFor="let file of fileUploads">
    <div class="panel-body">
      <details-upload [fileUpload]='file'></details-upload>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

<div class="panel-heading">List of Images</div>

<details-upload [fileUpload]='file'></details-upload>

</div>

2.10 App Component

app.component.ts

import { Component } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  templateUrl: './app.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./app.component.css']
})
export class AppComponent {
  title = 'JavaSampleApproach';
  description = 'Angular-Firebase Demo';
}

import { Component } from '@angular/core';

@Component({

selector: 'app-root',

templateUrl: './app.component.html',

styleUrls: ['./app.component.css']

})

export class AppComponent {

title = 'JavaSampleApproach';

description = 'Angular-Firebase Demo';

}

app.component.html

<div class="container" style="width:400px">
  <div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 20px">
    <h1>{{title}}</h1>
    <h3>{{description}}</h3>
  </div>

  <form-upload></form-upload>

  <br/>
  <br/>

  <list-upload></list-upload>
</div>

<h1>{{title}}</h1>

<h3>{{description}}</h3>

</div>

<form-upload></form-upload>

<br/>

<list-upload></list-upload>

</div>

2.11 Check Result

Run the App, go to http://localhost:4200/.

angular-6-firebase-storage-tutorial-upload-get-images-result

Check Firebase Console:
– Database:

angular-6-firebase-storage-tutorial-upload-get-files-storage-database-result

– Storage:

angular-6-firebase-storage-tutorial-upload-get-files-storage-storage-result

IV. Source Code

Angular6FirebaseStorage-Images

By grokonez | June 19, 2018.

Last updated on November 29, 2018.

3 thoughts on “Angular 6 Firebase – Upload/Display/Delete Images from Storage”

Mirza says:

June 25, 2018 at 1:17 pm

Hi.
Can you do upload and display image with Spring Boot + Angular 6 + Mysql.
Thanks in advance.

1. JavaSampleApproach says:
  
  July 12, 2018 at 2:35 am
  
  Hi Mirza,
  
  You can visit this tutorial 🙂
  Angular 6 Client – Upload Files/Download Files to MySQL with SpringBoot RestAPIs example
  
  Regards,
  JSA.
  
Sadiq says:

July 11, 2018 at 9:23 am

Grate tutorial, any help on how to use cloud firestore to archive this same operation?

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I. Technology

II. How to do

1. Set up the Firebase Project & Install AngularFire2

2. Upload File Service

3. Get and display List of Images

4. Check image format

III. Practice

1. Project Overview

1.1 Goal

1.2 Structure

2. Step by step

2.1 Set up the Firebase Project & Install AngularFire2

2.2 Add Firebase config to environments variable

2.3 Create Service & Components

2.4 Setup @NgModule

2.5 Model Class

2.6 Service

2.7 Form Upload Compoment

2.8 DetailsUpload Component

2.9 ListUpload Component

2.10 App Component

2.11 Check Result

IV. Source Code

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