source: code/trunk/example/static/dz.js@ 57

// Handle drag and drop into a dropzone_element div:
// send the files as a POST request to the server
"use strict";

// Only start once the DOM tree is ready
if(document.readyState === "complete") {
        setupzone();
} else {
        document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", setupzone);
}

function setupzone() {
        let dropzone = document.getElementById("dropzone");
        let fileinput = document.getElementById("filebox");
        let fallbackform = document.getElementById("fallbackform");

        fallbackform.style.display = "none";

        dropzone.className = "dropzone";
        dropzone.innerHTML = "Click or drop file(s)";

        dropzone.onclick = function() {
                fileinput.click()
        return false;
        }

        dropzone.ondragover = function() {
                this.className = "dropzone dragover";
                return false;
        }

        dropzone.ondragleave = function() {
                this.className = "dropzone";
                return false;
        }

        dropzone.ondrop = function(e) {
                // Stop browser from simply opening that was just dropped
                e.preventDefault();
                // Restore original dropzone appearance
                this.className = "dropzone";
                sendfiles(e.dataTransfer.files)
        }

        fileinput.onchange = function(e) {
                sendfiles(this.files)
        }
}

function sendfiles(files) {
        let uploads = document.getElementById("uploads");
        let progressbar = document.createElement("progress");
        let uploadlist = document.createElement("ul");
        let uploadtext = document.createElement("textarea");
        let formData = new FormData(), xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();

        // used for clipboard only
        uploadtext.style.display = "none";

        uploads.appendChild(progressbar);
        uploads.appendChild(uploadlist);
        uploads.appendChild(uploadtext);

        formData.append("expiry", 10);
        for(let i=0; i < files.length; i++) {
                formData.append("file", files[i]);
        }

        // triggers periodically
        xhr.upload.onprogress = function(e) {
                // e.loaded - how many bytes downloaded
                // e.lengthComputable = true if the server sent Content-Length header
                // e.total - total number of bytes (if lengthComputable)

        }

        xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {
                if(xhr.readyState === XMLHttpRequest.DONE) {
                        progressbar.remove();

                        this.response.split(/\r?\n/).forEach(function(link) {
                                let li = document.createElement("li");
                                li.innerHTML = `<a href="${link}">${link}</a>`;
                                uploadlist.appendChild(li);
                        });
                        let clippy = document.createElement("button");
                        uploads.appendChild(clippy);
                        clippy.innerText = " 📋 copy ";
                        clippy.onclick = function(e) {
                                uploadtext.select();
                                document.execCommand("copy");
                        }
                }
        }

        xhr.open('POST', window.location.href, true); // async = true
        xhr.send(formData);
}