How to use this repo without a node backend?

[Cleop]

I want to use this repo for an elixir project and saw the section about setting up a node server and using node packages crypto and path. I don't think it's good practice to have the two running simultaneously.

We don't have the time on this occasion to rewrite this repo entirely in elixir and so I wanted to know if there is another alternative?

[nelsonic]

@Cleop the practice of running multiple web/application servers simultaneously is commonly referred to as "Microservices" and is a widely accepted/used application architecture used in most companies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microservices

It makes a lot of sense to split the Image Upload functionality into a dedicated & independently tested Lambda Function (which is a micro Node.js Server).

The biggest advantage of having Image Uploads be a separate AWS Lambda Function
is that we can have the graphics library (used for resizing and rotating images) limited to the Lambda
rather than having to install it on the Elixir application server.

There's nothing "wrong" with writing a JS function for this specific use case.
It's a perfect use case for Lambda as image uploading is an infrequently used function
but when it is needed it needs to work flawlessly.