express-form-post

Express Form Post

A simple solution to handling file and form submissions

Installation

$ npm install express-form-post --save

Basic Usage Example:

The information for the file uploaded will be available in the files and body object in the request object.

Quick Start:

var express = require('express');
var app = express();
var efp = require('express-form-post');
var formPost = efp();

app.use(formPost.middleware());

Disk Storage:

var express = require('express');
var app = express();
var efp = require("express-form-post");
const formPost = efp({
	store: "disk",
	directory: path.join(__dirname, "tmp"),
	maxfileSize: 10000,
	filename: function(filename, fieldname, mimetype) {
		return Date.now() + '-' + filename;
	},
	validate: function(fieldname, filename, mimetype) {
		console.log(mimetype);
		if(mimetype != "application/pdf") {
			return false;
		}
	}
});

app.use(formPost.middleware(function(err) {
	console.log(err);
}));

Usage with S3:

$ npm install aws-sdk --save

var express = require('express');
var app = express();
var efp = require('express-form-post');
const formPost = efp({
	store: "aws-s3",
	maxfileSize: 100000,
	filename: function(filename, fieldname, mimetype) {
		return filename;
	},
	keys: {
		accessKeyId: process.env.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID,
		secretAccessKey: process.env.secretAccessKey,
		bucketName: process.env.S3_BUCKET_NAME,
		ACL: "public-read"
	}
})

app.use(formPost.middleware(function(err) {
	console.log(err);
}));

Available storage methods:

• disk storage
• aws s3

Will be available soon:

• google drive
• dropbox