Railway•11h ago

Volumes

I have an express application that uploads images to an /uploads folder in my express application. Ies it correct to mount a volume to /uploads in order to have persistent storage of the images in that folder?

Solution:

please see our docs on this topic - https://docs.railway.com/guides/volumes#relative-paths

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Percy•11h ago

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NynOP•11h ago

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Brody•11h ago

please see our docs on this topic - https://docs.railway.com/guides/volumes#relative-paths

NynOP•11h ago

so would it be /app/uploads ? 🙂 Is there a way to check the contents of the volume so that I know something has been uploaded there ? New to railway and trying to see if it makes sense on a client project 🙂

NynOP•11h ago

My code generates urls like such: https://exarbete-production.up.railway.app/uploads/eventImage-1731874140525-205047834.jpg just trying to figure out if this has actually ended up in persistent storage or not 😄

NynOP•11h ago

or does this backend code need to reflect the app/uploads bit? i feel like the documentation isn't super clear, or I might not understand it fully 😄

const uploadsDir = path.join(process.cwd(), "/uploads");
if (!fs.existsSync(uploadsDir)) {
  fs.mkdirSync(uploadsDir, { recursive: true });
}

const uploadsDir = path.join(process.cwd(), "/uploads");
if (!fs.existsSync(uploadsDir)) {
  fs.mkdirSync(uploadsDir, { recursive: true });
}

Brody•10h ago

most likely check the volume metrics backend code should not use /app

NynOP•10h ago

Yeah solved it eventually, the issue i was facing was that the images I was uploading was so small that the metrics didn't seem to detect them being uploaded. Uploaded some bigger ones and got some reaction 🙂

Brody•10h ago

awsome

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