Uploading Images to Your Node.js Backend

Andrew Richards
The Startup
Published in
6 min readJun 25, 2020

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While learning Node you may get to the point where you want to upload photos from your client to the backend. As someone who has struggled with Rails active storage in the past, I was delighted to find that uploading images to your server with Node is easy.

Node.js!

All it takes is an npm package, ‘Multer’, and a little bit of help from another package called ‘Sharp’.

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