Storing user file & onedrive Google drive etc

Storing user files

• Same approach as saving images in which we save the actual file to client and save the path to the database.
• This improves database speed as saving files there would overcrowd it.

  Implementation

  • On file select we use axios to post it and save it to a folder directory.
  • When the user clicks download we do a window confirm, then does a get and uses straight HTML to download the file.
  • As load times can vary I'll implement a popup loading bar to have a visual representation when the download has been completed.

External storage

• Google drive, onedrive, etc all use APIs and authentication to allow saving.
• We need to set up accounts with each cloud provider.
• AUTH0 (current login service) has ways to work with each popular cloud provider seamlessly to provide authentication.
• Using a token given from the authentication we can upload the files in whatever format to Google Drive (for example) through an API
• There's plenty of documentation on how to set up the upload APIS.

https://medium.com/@willikay11/how-to-link-your-react-application-with-google-drive-api-v3-list-and-search-files-2e4e036291b7 https://arnabsen.rocks/posts/upload_using_google_drive_api/