React: Upload Data to Express Server (with Examples)

Let’s take a look at how we can handle data upload using React app. For demo purposes, Express.js server will be created too so you could check back-end data yourself and modify it as you like.

Prerequisites

This is how our start project will look like, no additional files will be added…

Project’s folder structure

Don’t worry, you will not have to create this project from scratch → I will leave a link to the github repo:

GitHub - nemrosim/react-data-fetch-examples

If you just want to check the project without downloading it and running locally you can press “dot” . at the github page → VS Code IDEA will open:

Github page IDEA (gif)

How this app works