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File upload formidable

Example use of formidable module

A Node.js module for parsing form data, especially file uploads. To know more visit here. The example in index.js is taken from the node-formidable github repo.

If you run server and upload file successfully, you will see something like this:

received upload:

{ fields: { title: 'sasdf' },
  files: 
   { upload: 
      File {
	domain: null,
	_events: {},
	_eventsCount: 0,
	_maxListeners: undefined,
	size: 232,
	path: 'upload/upload_29534ab62167314f887b9b6bf6f3be8b',
	name: 'example.cpp',
	type: 'text/x-c++src',
	hash: null,
	lastModifiedDate: 2017-09-25T19:21:32.590Z,
	_writeStream: [Object] } } }

As you can see, how simple it gets handeling file uploads. If you see the example at the github repo, there you wouldn’t find

form.uploadDir = './upload';

Setting the property uploadDir on the form makes the file available at upload folder, which is uploaded by the client.

This is one beautiful link about streams.

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