@nxcd/barkeeper

Barkeeper

Barkeeper is a express middleware for handling multipart/form-data and persist in redis, which is used for uploading files to redis.

Basic Usage

Install:

$ npm i @nxcd/barkeeper

Import and use:

const redis = require('redis')
const express = require('express')

// Import barkeeper
const { Barkeeper } = require('@nxcd/barkeeper')

const redisClient = redis.createClient({ return_buffers: true }) // To save

const config = {
  ttl: 360 // Time to redis key expire in seconds
}

const barkeeper = barkeeperFactory(redisClient, config)

const app = express()

app.post('/file', barkeeper.upload({}), (req, res, next) => {
  // req.files is an array of files
})

API

Files information

Files contains an array of objects, each file contains the following information:

Key	Description
key	Key to identify in redis
fieldname	Field name specified in the form
name	Name of the file on the user's computer
encoding	Encoding type of the file
mimetype	Mime type of the file