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An upload queue for chat attachments: per file progress with speed and time left, a dropped connection with resume, processing steps after upload, and a header total with Cancel all.
Built with React and Tailwind. Copy the prompt and paste it into Claude Code, Cursor or Lovable: your agent adds Upload Queue to your project and fits it to your theme.
Code
How Upload Queue is used: the demo's code. The component's own source comes with a free account.
Usage.tsx
"use client"
import * as React from "react"
import { UploadQueue, UploadQueueFile } from "@/components/ui/upload-queue"
const FIT_CSS = "html,body{overflow:hidden}[data-fit-small] [data-fit-hide]{display:none!important}"
/**
* 21st shows a demo in a small frame: about 674 by 421 on a component page, 358 by 224 on a
* phone and 245 by 139 on a profile card. A demo taller than its frame gets scrollbars, which
* render white on dark pages. FitFrame fills the frame exactly instead.
*
* - "scale": the content shrinks until it fits, centered. For visuals such as orbs.
* - "crop": the content stays at full size from the top and fades out at the bottom. For text
* that streams in, where a changing scale would make the page breathe.
*
* `minWidth` lays out a wide demo (a table, a two column panel) at that width and scales it down
* to the frame, instead of letting it collapse to a narrow layout. The frame centers it, so it
* shrinks evenly on both sides.
*
* Anything marked `data-fit-hide` (state buttons, the chatcn.dev line) drops out in frames
* shorter than `hideBelow`, so a profile card shows the visual alone.
*/
function FitFrame({
children,
mode = "scale",
hideBelow = 360,
minWidth,
}: {
children: React.ReactNode
mode?: "scale" | "crop"
hideBelow?: number
minWidth?: string
}) {
const content = React.useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null)
const [cropped, setCropped] = React.useState(false)
React.useLayoutEffect(() => {
const el = content.current
if (!el) return
const measure = () => {
const vw = window.innerWidth
const vh = window.innerHeight
el.toggleAttribute("data-fit-small", vh < hideBelow)
// Layout sizes ignore the transform, so measuring never feeds back.
const w = Math.max(el.offsetWidth, el.scrollWidth)
const h = Math.max(el.offsetHeight, el.scrollHeight)
const scale = mode === "scale" ? Math.min(1, vw / w, vh / h) : 1
el.style.transform = scale < 1 ? `scale(${scale})` : ""
setCropped(mode === "crop" && h > vh + 1)
}
measure()
const observer = new ResizeObserver(measure)
observer.observe(el)
// Content that changes inside a fixed width box (a headline that cycles words) never resizes
// the box itself, so changes below it measure again on the next frame.
let frame = 0
const mutations = new MutationObserver(() => {
cancelAnimationFrame(frame)
frame = requestAnimationFrame(measure)
})
mutations.observe(el, { subtree: true, childList: true, characterData: true })
window.addEventListener("resize", measure)
return () => {
observer.disconnect()
mutations.disconnect()
cancelAnimationFrame(frame)
window.removeEventListener("resize", measure)
}
}, [mode, hideBelow])
const fade = "linear-gradient(to bottom, #000 calc(100% - 40px), transparent)"
return (
<div
className="flex w-full justify-center overflow-hidden"
style={{
height: "100dvh",
alignItems: mode === "crop" ? "flex-start" : "center",
maskImage: cropped ? fade : undefined,
WebkitMaskImage: cropped ? fade : undefined,
}}
>
<style>{FIT_CSS}</style>
<div
ref={content}
className="w-full shrink-0"
style={{ transformOrigin: mode === "crop" ? "top center" : "center", minWidth }}
>
{children}
</div>
</div>
)
}
/** A file in the demo uploader: how fast it moves, and whether it fails or needs processing. */
interface SimFile {
id: string
name: string
size: number
type?: string
/** Average bytes per second. */
speed: number
/** Fails once when progress passes this point. */
failAt?: number
failError?: string
/** Time spent in `processing` after the bytes land. */
processMs?: number
processingLabel?: string
}
interface SimState {
file: SimFile
status: UploadQueueFile["status"]
progress: number
rate?: number
failed?: boolean
processingSince?: number
}
const TICK = 200
/**
* A scripted uploader for the examples: two files transfer at a time, rates wobble the way real
* networks do, one file can fail once and some files process after their bytes land.
*/
function useUploadSim(initial: SimFile[], { concurrency = 2, paused = false } = {}) {
const make = React.useCallback(
(files: SimFile[]): SimState[] =>
files.map((file) => ({ file, status: "queued", progress: 0 })),
[],
)
const [items, setItems] = React.useState<SimState[]>(() => make(initial))
React.useEffect(() => {
if (paused) return
const id = window.setInterval(() => {
setItems((prev) => {
const now = Date.now()
let slots = concurrency - prev.filter((s) => s.status === "uploading").length
return prev.map((s) => {
if (s.status === "queued" && slots > 0) {
slots -= 1
return { ...s, status: "uploading" }
}
if (s.status === "uploading") {
const wobble = 0.8 + Math.random() * 0.4
const rate = s.file.speed * wobble
const progress = Math.min(1, s.progress + (rate * (TICK / 1000)) / s.file.size)
if (s.file.failAt !== undefined && !s.failed && progress >= s.file.failAt) {
return {
...s,
status: "failed",
progress: s.file.failAt,
rate: undefined,
failed: true,
}
}
if (progress >= 1) {
return s.file.processMs
? { ...s, status: "processing", progress: 1, rate: undefined, processingSince: now }
: { ...s, status: "done", progress: 1, rate: undefined }
}
return { ...s, progress, rate }
}
if (
s.status === "processing" &&
now - (s.processingSince ?? now) >= (s.file.processMs ?? 0)
) {
return { ...s, status: "done" }
}
return s
})
})
}, TICK)
return () => window.clearInterval(id)
}, [concurrency, paused])
const files: UploadQueueFile[] = items.map((s) => ({
id: s.file.id,
name: s.file.name,
size: s.file.size,
type: s.file.type,
status: s.status,
progress: s.progress,
bytesPerSecond: s.rate,
error: s.status === "failed" ? s.file.failError : undefined,
processingLabel: s.file.processingLabel,
}))
const actions = React.useMemo(() => {
const update = (id: string, fn: (s: SimState) => SimState) =>
setItems((prev) => prev.map((s) => (s.file.id === id ? fn(s) : s)))
const stop = (s: SimState): SimState =>
s.status === "queued" || s.status === "uploading"
? { ...s, status: "canceled", rate: undefined }
: s
return {
cancel: (id: string) => update(id, stop),
cancelAll: () => setItems((prev) => prev.map(stop)),
// Failed uploads resume from where they stopped; canceled ones start over.
retry: (id: string) =>
update(id, (s) => ({
...s,
status: "queued",
progress: s.status === "canceled" ? 0 : s.progress,
})),
remove: (id: string) => setItems((prev) => prev.filter((s) => s.file.id !== id)),
add: (files: SimFile[]) => setItems((prev) => [...prev, ...make(files)]),
reset: (files: SimFile[]) => setItems(make(files)),
}
}, [make])
return { files, ...actions }
}
const MB = 1_000_000
const analyticsFiles: SimFile[] = [
{
id: "subscriptions",
name: "subscriptions_2026_q1.csv",
type: "text/csv",
size: 48.2 * MB,
speed: 7.8 * MB,
processMs: 1800,
processingLabel: "Reading 182,406 rows",
},
{
id: "interviews",
name: "churn-interviews-transcripts.zip",
type: "application/zip",
size: 31.6 * MB,
speed: 6.4 * MB,
failAt: 0.37,
failError: "Connection lost at 37%. Retry to resume from where it stopped.",
},
{
id: "deck",
name: "Board deck March 2026.pdf",
type: "application/pdf",
size: 12.6 * MB,
speed: 5.2 * MB,
processMs: 2600,
processingLabel: "Extracting text",
},
{
id: "cohorts",
name: "cohort-retention.png",
type: "image/png",
size: 1.84 * MB,
speed: 2.6 * MB,
},
{
id: "notes",
name: "Q1 2026 renewal call notes from the customer success team, EU and APAC accounts (final).docx",
type: "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document",
size: 2.31 * MB,
speed: 3.1 * MB,
},
]
/**
* Five files for the analytics agent: two transfer at a time, the PDF extracts its text, the
* archive drops its connection once and resumes on Retry, and the finished queue folds into the
* attached row. Then it replays.
*/
function UploadQueueDemo() {
const sim = useUploadSim(analyticsFiles)
const { files, retry, reset } = sim
const failedId = files.find((f) => f.status === "failed")?.id
const allDone = files.length > 0 && files.every((f) => f.status === "done")
const stopped =
files.length > 0 && files.every((f) => f.status === "canceled" || f.status === "done")
// Nobody pressed Retry: the demo does it after a moment.
React.useEffect(() => {
if (!failedId) return
const id = window.setTimeout(() => retry(failedId), 2600)
return () => window.clearTimeout(id)
}, [failedId, retry])
React.useEffect(() => {
if (!allDone && !stopped) return
const id = window.setTimeout(() => reset(analyticsFiles), allDone ? 5200 : 3000)
return () => window.clearTimeout(id)
}, [allDone, stopped, reset])
return (
<div className="w-full max-w-lg">
<UploadQueue
files={files}
onCancel={sim.cancel}
onCancelAll={sim.cancelAll}
onRetry={sim.retry}
onRemove={sim.remove}
/>
</div>
)
}
/** The line under each 21st demo that points back to the kit. */
function MoreOn({ slug, children }: { slug: string; children: React.ReactNode }) {
return (
<p data-fit-hide className="text-[0.75rem]/[1rem] text-(color:--chatcn-fg-faint) text-center text-balance">
{children}{" "}
<a
href={`https://chatcn.dev/docs/components/${slug}`}
target="_blank"
rel="noopener"
className="text-(color:--chatcn-fg-subtle) hover:text-(color:--chatcn-fg) underline underline-offset-2"
>
chatcn.dev
</a>
</p>
)
}
/** The kit's own example, framed for the 21st preview. */
export default function UploadQueuePreview() {
return (
<FitFrame minWidth="34rem">
<div className="flex w-full flex-col items-center justify-center gap-4 p-6">
<div className="flex w-full max-w-2xl justify-center">
<UploadQueueDemo />
</div>
<MoreOn slug="upload-queue">Uploads with progress, retries and cancel. On</MoreOn>
</div>
</FitFrame>
)
}








