Angular 2 HTTP Progress bar

Currently (from v. 4.3.0, when using new HttpClient from @ngular/common/http) Angular provides listening to progress out of the box. You just need to create HTTPRequest object as below:

import { HttpRequest } from '@angular/common/http';
...

const req = new HttpRequest('POST', '/upload/file', file, {
  reportProgress: true,
});

And when you subscribe to to request you will get subscription called on every progress event:

http.request(req).subscribe(event => {
  // Via this API, you get access to the raw event stream.
  // Look for upload progress events.
  if (event.type === HttpEventType.UploadProgress) {
    // This is an upload progress event. Compute and show the % done:
    const percentDone = Math.round(100 * event.loaded / event.total);
    console.log(`File is ${percentDone}% uploaded.`);
  } else if (event instanceof HttpResponse) {
    console.log('File is completely uploaded!');
  }
});

More info here.

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