node-express-file-form-upload-demo

This is a repo as part of a blog post on how to achieve creating a web form that submit's users files to a temporary folder on your Node.js app's server.

Blog Post/Tutorial

https://medium.com/@Moonstrasse/how-to-make-a-basic-html-form-file-upload-using-multer-in-an-express-node-js-app-16dac2476610

Node.js Solution Dependencies

-express -multer -body-parser

Install this solution to run locally

1. FORK /CLONE Get over to github and clone or fork/clone… (if you want to help me make it better, (yes, please!)) … my demo repository for this solution. https://github.com/Lazercat/node-express-file-form-upload-demo.

2. INSTALL NPM PACKAGES Once cloned locally, run an npm install from your command line (bash/terminal) in the root folder where App.js is. npm install

3. RUN THE APP I included the nodemon package in this project, so to run this solution on your localhost just type the following code. As you make changes, nodemon will automatically re-run it for you -neato, huh? nodemon App.js

4. VIEW/TEST LOCAL Visit http://localhost:3000 in your web browser to check out this solution.