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:clipboard: FCC project to be able to select and upload a file via a UI

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⚡ File Metadata Microservice for freeCodeCamp

  • extracts uploaded file metadata and stores file using multer node.js middleware
  • This was part of the FreeCodeCamp exercises for Front End Certification
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📄 Table of contents

📚 General info

  • Original instructions (User Stories) from FCC:
  1. I can submit a form that includes a file upload.
  2. The from file input field has the "name" attribute set to "upfile". We rely on this in testing.
  3. When I submit something, I will receive the file name and size in bytes within the JSON response
  4. To handle the file uploading you should use the multer npm package.

📷 Screenshots

Example screenshot.

📶 Technologies

  • Node v14 javaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine
  • Express v5 Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js
  • multer v1 node.js middleware for handling multipart/form-data, mainly used for uploading files
  • Cors v2 node.js package for providing Connect/Express middleware that can be used to enable CORS with various options.

💾 Setup

  • Run node server.js for a dev server. Navigate to http://localhost:8080/.
  • The app will not automatically reload if you change any of the source files.

💻 Code Examples

  • extract from server.js to upload file and produce a json object with file details (or error message if it does not work)
app.post('/api/fileanalyse', upload.single('upfile'), (req, res, next) => {
	const fileSize = req.file && req.file.size;
	console.log(typeof fileSize); //should return 'number'
	res.json(
		typeof fileSize == 'undefined'
			? { error: 'sorry, but there is a file error' }
			: {
					name: req.file.originalname,
					type: req.file.mimetype,
					size: req.file.size + ' bytes',
			  }
	);
});

🆒 Features

  • multer used to upload files - uploaded files stored in a folder named 'uploads'. If this folder does not exist then it is created.

📋 Status & To-Do List

  • Status: Working
  • To-Do: nothing

👏 Inspiration

📁 License

  • This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.

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