When you upload file with Django, the response won't be returned until the file upload has completed. If the uploaded file is large, it will take a long time, during which the user can't do anything but wait. Is there any way to implement asynchronous processing of file uploading? So, when a file is uploading backend, the user can do some other operation on the current page without interrupting the upload?
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I am aware that it has been more that 5 years since this question was asked but I have similar problem and there are no "simple answers" on SO.
For your problem I may suggest using a progress bar (if using Django forms). Uploading a file asynchronously might not be possible in Django.
In my case the browser element is not crucial and I am considering moving the file upload from browser upload to some sort of FTP / AWS S3 file storage and working on this.
Seems like https://github.com/jeanphix/django-resumable is designed for that (never tried it though). There is also a version for admin site - https://github.com/jonatron/django-admin-resumable-js
UPD: django-resumable is now abandoned, so I ended up creating my own fork with support for S3 and Inline Admin Views. You can try it here, feedback very much is welcome – https://github.com/DataGreed/django-admin-async-upload
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