How to disable Express BodyParser for file uploads (Node.js)

Question

This seems like it should be a fairly simple question, but I\'m having a really hard time figuring out how to approach it.

I\'m using Node.js + Express to build a we

Answer 1

With express v4, and body-parser v1.17 and above,
You can pass a function in the type of bodyParser.json.
body-parser will parse only those inputs where this function returns a truthy value.

app.use(bodyParser.json({
    type: function(req) {
        return req.get('content-type').indexOf('multipart/form-data') !== 0;
    },
}));

In the above code,
the function returns a falsy value if the content-type is multipart/form-data.
So, it does not parse the data when the content-type is multipart/form-data.