Kevin Powell - Community•2y ago

Save images from file input in form POST method

So recently I've been learning express JS and wanted to do a simple project of making a website with a form. it will receive a name and an image. Show both after submitting the form. The problem lies in the file input in the form. I can grab the name of the file but I don't know how to download it and save it in an assets/gallery folder to later show it. Can anyone help? Thanks Below is the index.js code and also for added context I use hard coded array called gallery to store the data since I wanted to just focus on express and not deal with database for now.

// index.js file
const express = require('express');
const path = require('path');
const gallery = require('./Gallery');

const app = express();
const PORT = process.env.PORT || 3000;


app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname)));
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');

app.use(express.json());
app.use(express.urlencoded({extended: false}));

app.get("/", (req, res) => res.render("mini-gallery", {
    title: "Gallery Photos",
    gallery,
    dir: path.join("assets", "gallery")
}));

app.post("/", (req, res) => {
    //Grab name and image url
    const newImage = {
        name: req.body.name,
        imageUrl: req.body.image
    }

    if(!newImage.name || !newImage.imageUrl){
        res.status(404).json({msg:"Please insert the form accordingly"});
    }
   
    gallery.push(newImage);
    res.redirect("/");
})

app.listen(PORT, () => {
    console.log(`Server started at port ${PORT}`);
});

// index.js file
const express = require('express');
const path = require('path');
const gallery = require('./Gallery');

const app = express();
const PORT = process.env.PORT || 3000;


app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname)));
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');

app.use(express.json());
app.use(express.urlencoded({extended: false}));

app.get("/", (req, res) => res.render("mini-gallery", {
    title: "Gallery Photos",
    gallery,
    dir: path.join("assets", "gallery")
}));

app.post("/", (req, res) => {
    //Grab name and image url
    const newImage = {
        name: req.body.name,
        imageUrl: req.body.image
    }

    if(!newImage.name || !newImage.imageUrl){
        res.status(404).json({msg:"Please insert the form accordingly"});
    }
   
    gallery.push(newImage);
    res.redirect("/");
})

app.listen(PORT, () => {
    console.log(`Server started at port ${PORT}`);
});

2 Replies

Joao•2y ago

There's a library called Sharp that can help with that, it's pretty well documented and flexible, allows you to also do image manipulation and stuff like that.

IronWaffleOP•2y ago

Thanks for the reply I'll look into it and hopefully it will solve my problem :D

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Save images from file input in form POST method