File Handling Made Easy using Cloudinary for Nodejs

You won’t need another tutorial after this for file uploading

Vikranth Kanumuru
Kanlanc
2 min readSep 5, 2021

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I have come across many articles regarding uploading of files using mutler, but doing so we store the files in the server and there are many services that offer third party services for storage. One such service is cloudinary and the trade-offs are very good.

Although the documentation for cloudinary service is pretty good, it never mentioned the whole workflow and I had to figure it out on my own, so I am writing this article to make it easier for other people and not spend much time for that aspect.

If you would like to look at the project I have used it for, click here

The frontend would be like

The backend would be like

Package.json:

Routing Code :

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Vikranth Kanumuru
Kanlanc

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