ExampleMultipart

Simple Image Upload Server

Example from http://hidrodixtion.github.io/2016/06/02/create-simple-image-upload-server-in-node-js/

1. Install node & npm

• optional: install coffeescript. npm install -g coffee-script

2. Install express. npm install express
3. Install multer. npm install multer
4. Run the server.

• coffeescript : coffee Multipart_File.coffee
• node/javascript : node Multipart_File.js

Upload Test

1. Install httpie
2. Run httpie command

http -f POST 127.0.0.1:3000 name='upload_test' upload@path_to_file_name.jpg

• change path_to_file_name.jpg with your image full path.

Above command should print this log in server console :

{ fieldname: 'upload',
  originalname: 'filename.jpg',
  encoding: '7bit',
  mimetype: 'text/plain',
  destination: './uploads',
  filename: '10b84dc968b78e83da635cbbe416f6e1.jpg',
  path: 'uploads/10b84dc968b78e83da635cbbe416f6e1.jpg',
  size: 19242 }
{ name: 'upload_test' }