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Use multer for File-Uploads inside a Express Router

rated 0 times [ 160] [ 1] / answers: 1 / hits: 15219 / 9 Years ago, sun, december 13, 2015, 12:00:00

I got a working REST-API built with node.js and Express.

Now I need a file-upload endpoint, which accepts uploaded files and processes them.

I am using an Express Router and some Authentication middleware.

server.js (excerpt)

var router = express.Router()

app.use(/api, router)



[...]

router.use(function(req, res, next) {

    //Authentification middleware

    [...]

    next()

})



router.route(/upload)

     .post(function(req, res){

        //upload logic

     })

How can I use multer to serve the uploaded file as req.file (or so), but only in /api/upload and for authed users?

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answered 9 Years ago shianncaylinc · Accepted Answer

Ok, I got it.

I can use

var multer = require(multer)

var upload = multer({ dest: some/path })



[...]



router.route(/upload)

    /* replace foo-bar with your form field-name */

    .post(upload.single(foo-bar), function(req, res){

       [...]

    })