filese

filese

Installation

$ npm install filese  

Usage

<form action="/profile" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
  <input type="file" name="avatar" />
</form>

var express = require('express')
var upfile  = require('filese')
var upload = upfile('public/uploads/')

var app = express()

app.post('/profile', upload.single('avatar'), function (req, res, next) {
  // req.file is the `avatar` file
  // req.body will hold the text fields, if there were any
})

app.post('/photos/upload', upload.array('photos', 12), function (req, res, next) {
  // req.files is array of `photos` files
  // req.body will contain the text fields, if there were any
})

var cpUpload = upload.fields([{ name: 'avatar', maxCount: 1 }, { name: 'gallery', maxCount: 8 }])
app.post('/cool-profile', cpUpload, function (req, res, next) {
  // req.files is an object (String -> Array) where fieldname is the key, and the value is array of files
  //
  // e.g.
  //  req.files['avatar'][0] -> File
  //  req.files['gallery'] -> Array
  //
  // req.body will contain the text fields, if there were any
})

API

File information

Each file contains the following information:

Key	Description	Note
fieldname	Field name specified in the form
originalname	Name of the file on the user's computer
encoding	Encoding type of the file
mimetype	Mime type of the file
size	Size of the file in bytes
destination	The folder to which the file has been saved	DiskStorage
filename	The name of the file within the destination	DiskStorage
path	The full path to the uploaded file	DiskStorage
buffer	A Buffer of the entire file	MemoryStorage

delete file

	upload.deleteFile(paths,fn(data))