Step 3: Create Model And Migration

Next step, you need to run the following command:

php artisan make:model Photo -m

This command will create one model name photo.php and also create one migration file for the photos table.

Now open create_photos_table.php migration file from database>migrations and replace up() function with following code:

<?php
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
class CreatePhotosTable extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('photos', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->increments('id');
            $table->string('title');
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }
    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists('photos');
    }
}

Next, migrate the table using the below command:

php artisan migrate

Step 4: NPM Configuration

You need to setup Vue and install Vue dependencies using NPM. So run the following command on command prompt:

php artisan preset vue

Install all Vue dependencies:

npm install

Step 5: Add Routes

Next step, go to routes folder and open web.php file and add the following routes into your file:

routes/web.php

Route::get('upload_file', function () {
    return view('upload');
});
Route::post('store_file', 'FileUploadController@fileStore');

Step 6: Create Controller By Command

Next step, open your command prompt and run the following command to create a controller by an artisan:

php artisan make:controller FileUploadController

After that, go to app\Http\Controllers and open FileUploadController.php file. Then update the following code into your FileUploadController.php file:

<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
Use App\Photo;
class FileUploadController extends Controller
{
    // function to store file in 'upload' folder
    public function fileStore(Request $request)
    {
        $upload_path = public_path('upload');
        $file_name = $request->file->getClientOriginalName();
        $generated_new_name = time() . '.' . $request->file->getClientOriginalExtension();
        $request->file->move($upload_path, $generated_new_name);
         
        $insert['title'] = $file_name;
        $check = Photo::insertGetId($insert);
        return response()->json(['success' => 'You have successfully uploaded "' . $file_name . '"']);
    }
}

Step 7: Create Vue Component

Next step, go to resources/assets/js/components folder and create a filed called FileUpload.vue.

And update the following code into your FileUpload.vue components file:

<template>
<div class="container" style="margin-top: 50px;">
<div class="text-center">
<h4>File Upload with VueJS and Laravel</h4><br>
<div style="max-width: 500px; margin: 0 auto;">
<div v-if="success !== ''" class="alert alert-success" role="alert">
{{success}}
</div>
<form @submit="submitForm" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<div class="input-group">
<div class="custom-file">
<input type="file" name="filename" class="custom-file-input" id="inputFileUpload"
v-on:change="onFileChange">
<label class="custom-file-label" for="inputFileUpload">Choose file</label>
</div>
<div class="input-group-append">
<input type="submit" class="btn btn-primary" value="Upload">
</div>
</div>
<br>
<p class="text-danger font-weight-bold">{{filename}}</p>
</form>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
mounted() {
console.log('Component successfully mounted.')
},
data() {
return {
filename: '',
file: '',
success: ''
};
},
methods: {
onFileChange(e) {
//console.log(e.target.files[0]);
this.filename = "Selected File: " + e.target.files[0].name;
this.file = e.target.files[0];
},
submitForm(e) {
e.preventDefault();
let currentObj = this;
const config = {
headers: {
'content-type': 'multipart/form-data',
'X-CSRF-TOKEN': document.querySelector('meta[name="csrf-token"]').content,
}
}
// form data
let formData = new FormData();
formData.append('file', this.file);
// send upload request
axios.post('/store_file', formData, config)
.then(function (response) {
currentObj.success = response.data.success;
currentObj.filename = "";
})
.catch(function (error) {
currentObj.output = error;
});
}
}
}
</script>

Now open resources/assets/js/app.js and include the FileUpload.vue component like this:app.js

require('./bootstrap');
window.Vue = require('vue');
Vue.component('file-upload-component', require('./components/FileUpload.vue').default);
const app = new Vue({
el: '#app',
});

Step 8: Register Vue App

In this step, we will create a blade view file to define Vue’s app. Go to resources/views folder and make a file named upload.blade.php. Then update the following code into upload.blade.php as follow:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="csrf-token" content="{{ csrf_token() }}">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0/css/bootstrap.min.css">
<title>File Upload with VueJS and Laravel - tutsmake.com</title>
<link href="{{asset('css/app.css')}}" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<body>
<div id="app">
<file-upload-component></file-upload-component>
</div>
<script src="{{asset('js/app.js')}}"></script>
</body>
</html>

Step 9: Run Development Server

Run the following command to start development server:

npm run dev
or 
npm run watch

Conclusion

In this example tutorial, you have learned how to upload files with vue js in laravel using axios request.