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Full-Stack React Projects

by Shama Hoque
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
470 pages
13h 54m
English
Packt Publishing
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Uploading a profile photo

Allowing a user to upload a profile photo will require that we store the uploaded image file, and retrieve it on request to load in the view. There are multiple ways of implementing this upload feature considering the different file storage options:

  • Server filesystem: Upload and save files to a server filesystem and store the URL to MongoDB
  • External file storage: Save files to external storage such as Amazon S3 and store the URL in MongoDB
  • Store as data in MongoDB: Save files of a small size (less than 16 MB) to MongoDB as data of type Buffer

For MERN Social, we will assume that the photo files uploaded by the user will be of small sizes, and demonstrate how to store these files in MongoDB for the profile photo ...

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