Uploading files to a web app with Node

Mon, 02 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

My default approach to web apps at the moment is Node/Express SSR. I needed to have users be able to upload files this week, and as usual there’s an express middleware that makes it trivial. This post just steps through using multer to make it simple to enable file uploads on your website.

Express & middleware

Before we look at file uploading, it’s worth just explaining how it fits with the other tools we’re using:

Multer on dev.endevour

Uploading files to a web app with Node

Express & middleware