How to display a image selected from input type = file in reactJS

hope it works for you

            <form onSubmit={form => submitForm(form)}>
              <input
                accept="image/*"
                onChange={onImageChange}
                className={classes.inputImage}
                id="contained-button-file"
                multiple
                name="image"
                type="file"
              />
              <label htmlFor="contained-button-file">
                <IconButton component="span">
                  <Avatar
                    src={mydata.imagePreview}
                    style={{
                      margin: "10px",
                      width: "200px",
                      height: "200px"
                    }}
                  />
                </IconButton>
              </label>
              <Button
                type="submit"
                variant="outlined"
                className={classes.button}
              >
                Default
              </Button>
            </form>

onImageChange

  const onImageChange = event => {
    if (event.target.files && event.target.files[0]) {
      let reader = new FileReader();
      let file = event.target.files[0];
      reader.onloadend = () => {
        setData({
          ...mydata,
          imagePreview: reader.result,
          file: file
        });
      };
      reader.readAsDataURL(file);
    }
  };

submitForm

  const submitForm = form => {
    form.preventDefault();
    const formData = new FormData();
    formData.append("image", mydata.file);
    // for (var pair of formData.entries()) {
    //   console.log(pair[1]);
    // }
    const config = {
      headers: {
        "content-type": "multipart/form-data"
      }
    };
    axios
      .post("api/profile/upload", formData, config)
      .then(response => {
        alert("The file is successfully uploaded");
      })
      .catch(error => {});
  };

Try this

<input type="file" onChange={this.onImageChange} className="filetype" id="group_image"/>

Add method to class

onImageChange = (event) => {
  if (event.target.files && event.target.files[0]) {
    let reader = new FileReader();
    reader.onload = (e) => {
      this.setState({image: e.target.result});
    };
    reader.readAsDataURL(event.target.files[0]);
  }
}

or you can use URL.createObjectURL

onImageChange = (event) => {
 if (event.target.files && event.target.files[0]) {
   this.setState({
     image: URL.createObjectURL(event.target.files[0])
   });
 }
}

And display image

<img id="target" src={this.state.image}/>

For the hook version:

const [image, setImage] = useState(null)

const onImageChange = (event) => {
 if (event.target.files && event.target.files[0]) {
   setImage(URL.createObjectURL(event.target.files[0]));
 }
}

return (
  <div>
    <input type="file" onChange={onImageChange} className="filetype" />
    <img src={image} alt="preview image" />
  </div>
)

Recently I came across needing a similar feature. Here is my implementation using hooks.

export default function App() {
  const [image, setImage] = React.useState("");
  const imageRef = React.useRef(null);

  function useDisplayImage() {
    const [result, setResult] = React.useState("");

    function uploader(e) {
      const imageFile = e.target.files[0];

      const reader = new FileReader();
      reader.addEventListener("load", (e) => {
        setResult(e.target.result);
      });

      reader.readAsDataURL(imageFile);
    }

    return { result, uploader };
  }

  const { result, uploader } = useDisplayImage();

  return (
    <div className="App">
      <input
        type="file"
        onChange={(e) => {
          setImage(e.target.files[0]);
          uploader(e);
        }}
      />
      {result && <img ref={imageRef} src={result} alt="" />}
    </div>
  );
}

I created a custom hook so that it can be reused anywhere in the app. The hook returns the image src and the uploader function. The image src can then be linked to the <img src={..} /> and then on input change you can just pass in the e to the uploader function.