How to upload file using multer or body-parser

Question

I am a NodeJS beginner, following along a book \"Web Development with MongoDB and NodeJS\". I am stuck at its chapter 6 with \'multer\'. When I use multer for file uploads t

Answer 1

I corrected the code of the book "Web Development with MongoDB and NodeJS" as follows:

app.use(multer({dest:path.join(__dirname,'../public/upload/temp')}).any());
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const tempPath = req.files[0].path,  // Temporary location of uploaded file
ext = path.extname(req.files[0].originalname).toLowerCase(), // Get file extension of the uploaded file
targetPath = path.resolve(`./public/upload/${imgUrl}${ ext}`); // The final path for the image file

The other parts of code remained intact. It worked and I could upload image files. Best wishes, Mehrdad Sheikhan