File Upload with Angular Material

Question

I\'m writing an web app with AngularJS and angular-material. The problem is that there\'s no built-in component for file input in angular-material. (I feel that file uploading d

Answer 1

from jameswyse at https://github.com/angular/material/issues/3310

HTML

 Choose Files 

CONTROLLER

    var link = function (scope, element, attrs) {
    const input = element.find('#fileInput');
    const button = element.find('#uploadButton');

    if (input.length && button.length) {
        button.click((e) => input.click());
    }
}

Worked for me.