It might not help because it’s in svelte and it doesn’t look like you’re using lemmy-js-client, but this is an example of how I do it in Alexandrite using lemmy-js-client. The onPaste function handles the paste event on the markdown editor textarea when someone pastes with an image in their clipboard, and the onFileInputChange is the change event for an <input type="file" /> element so when someone selects a file it uploads and the input’s label can be styled like a button. Here is the client’s fetch function which handles the authorization header and whatnot. You can upload client-side without a proxy server for any instance running a newer version of Lemmy than like… 0.19.0? I didn’t want to be responsible for proxying image uploads so I waited to add image uploading in Alexandrite until I could do the uploads directly client side.

Good to know!

I can see how many unique users view the site in 1, 7, or 30 days, and I think after a year of no updates the 7 day average is pretty close to what it was still. Nice to see so many people liking my site!

Ooo I love it! What lens did you use? I bought a cheap old Pentax lens that has some cool looking chromatic aberration like on the branches in your photo and I love it.

I recently got back into working on Alexandrite after a little more than a year of no activity/updates, and I’ve been checking out Photon. I’m extremely impressed with what you’ve managed to accomplish while I’ve been gone! I’ve already taken inspiration from your work with some of my recent changes, and will likely copy more of your homework. Like others are saying, don’t sell yourself short! You’ve built one of the best Lemmy frontends out there and I’ve got a lot of catching up to do.

This was the most glaring missing basic feature for so long, glad it’s finally in, I don’t have to go back to the default ui just to write my announcement posts anymore. It wasn’t possible to upload images from third party websites last time I was actively working on Alexandrite, and I think it’s been possible for quite a long time by now and I’m finally getting to it.