[FR] Recommend koajs/koa-body instead of co-busboy for multipart

[FossPrime]

co-busboy has poor ergonomics for koa use and requires a stack of app level dependencies to handle multipart forms. Meanwhile, the formidable based, streaming, first party koajs/koa-body exists...

https://github.com/koajs/koa-body
Sandbox: https://codesandbox.io/s/koa-body-upload-tt3c2
https://www.npmjs.com/package/formidable
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55872109/how-to-upload-file-using-koa

How express deals with it:

https://expressjs.com/en/resources/middleware/body-parser.html

[3imed-jaberi]

In the near future, we will update our documentation, where we will add more information about all aspects to build a backend.

In the current stage, I recommend to useone of these modules;

• koa-bodyparser (didn't support form-data)
• koa/multer (support only form-data)
• koa-body