How to store files with meta data in LoopBack?

Question

What I want to do: Have an html form, with a file input inside. When a file is chosen, the file input should upload the file, and get a file id, so when the form is submitte

Answer 1

For anyone else having that problem with loopback 3 and Postman that on POST, the connection hangs (or returns ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE) (seen in some comments here)... The problem in this scenario is, that Postman uses as Content-Type "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"!

Please remove that header and add "Accept" = "multipart/form-data". I've already filed a bug at loopback for this behavior