There is a great library to handle file uploads for Node.js Express framework. It is a Multer module.
Let's install it:
$npm install multer --save
The configuration of Multer is pretty straightforward. We will use it as a middleware after our authentication to be sure that only the authenticated request uploads files to the service. We will use the following code for this purpose:
var multer = require('multer');
router.post('/', jwtauth, requireAuth, multer({
dest: './public/uploads/',
rename: function(fieldname, filename) {
return Date.now();
}
}), function(req, res, next) {
var picture = req.body;
if (req.files && req.files && req.files.picture) {
picture.fileName = req.files.picture.name;
}
// save to the DB code goes here
});Where:
destis the destination directory for the uploaded files.renameis a customized function to assign new...