Is it possible to make a file upload system without using php, just with jquery?

The answer is yes and no.

Yes, you can do a upload system without PHP .

And no, you can not just do jQuery .

What happens is that jQuery is a JavaScript framework that works on the client-side (front-end ). However, it has no effect on you to upload the front-end, if you have nothing on the back-end (server-side) to receive / handle this file.

However, you can only use JavaScript to handle the upload using NodeJS . If you want, you can also use other technologies, such as Python and your thousands of web frameworks , Ruby with Ruby on Rails or any other language that works on the back end.

No. An application on the server side has to receive the file and do something with the file - for example, save it to the file system.

Now, if you want a just javascript application, you can do it using jQuery for the client side and javascript technology for the server side, such as node.js .