This chapter will provide guidance for some advanced integrations that can only be handled securely through the server layer of a MEAN Stack application. We will provide examples for implementing these integrations in a secure manner that won’t expose vulnerable data to the frontend client application.
For many of our integrations, we will connect to external cloud-based services. Some services, such as Cloudinary, offer great image hosting and management services that make it easy to decouple working with image files from our backend server's filesystem. There are also services that enable a wide range of business critical functionality that you really should not implement on your own, such as enabling payment processing using Stripe.
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Uploading large multi-part files with Express
- Uploading...