In Lightning 8.x-1.03, we introduced an entity browser for selecting or uploading images for use in an image field. It was pretty rad and good times were had by all. At the time, we decided to punt on supporting file fields in the same way -- but now that entity browsers for image fields are a thing in Lightning, it'd be nice if file fields had parity with them. We should implement an entity browser for file fields that works similarly to the image browsers -- a library tab for selecting an existing file (or files), and an upload tab for uploading a new file.

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phenaproxima created an issue. See original summary.

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When this issue was filed, we _only_ had an entity browser for Image Media Entities. Since then we've added support for all media bundles - including Documents and any other bundle that the user wants to implement.

I don't see a reason to reinvent this functionality for File Fields specifically when the ME Document bundle or a custom bundle would be just as correct. I understand that Media might not perfectly describe something that is decidedly a file, but ME has already made that leap with Document.