mongofiles

mongofiles

A package to easily save filenames to MongoDB

Installation

Install mongofiles with npm

  npm install mongofiles

Tech Stack

Server: Node, Express

Usage/Examples

const Blog = require("../models/blog");
const mongofiles = require("mongofiles"); //importing mongofiles

exports.add = (req, res, next) => {
  var {
    images,
    featuredimage
  } = req.body;  

//for more than one files, it return array of filenames
  images = mongofiles.manyfile( req.files.images,  "images", "filename"  );
 
//for only one file it returns a string  
  featuredimage = mongofiles.onefile(req.files.featuredimage, featuredimage, "filename");

  let newBlog = new Blog({
    images,
    featuredimage
  });

  newBlog.save((err, data) => {
    if (err) {
      return res.status(400).json({
        error: err,
      });
      console.log(err);
    } else {
      res.json(data);
      console.log(data);
    }
  });
};

API Reference

//return a array of filenames
  mongofiles.manyfiles(req.files.<name>, "name" , "Option", custom )

//return a string of single file
  mongofiles.onefile(req.files.<name>, "name" , "Option", custom ) 

Select any for options Required Options are same for manyfiles and onefile

Option	Type	Description
original	string	Returns original filename
filename	string	Returns filename uploaded with the name
customfilename	string	Returns filename uploaded file with the custom string or number name
customoriginalname	string	Returns original uploaded file with the custom string or number name

Custom is only mandatory if you go for customfilename and customoriginalname

You can write string or number there or pass Date.now()

Authors

• @Amanp30