Node Cookbook - Third Edition

Multipart POST uploads

For fun and profit, let's build our own multipart request which we can post to the multipart upload server we created in the Receiving POST data recipe (if we haven't completed that recipe, now might be a good time to read up).

Let's create a new folder called multipart-post-uploads, with an index.js. We'll also initialize a package.json file and install steed (a low-overhead asynchronous control flow library):

$ mkdir multipart-post-uploads $ touch index.js $ npm init -y $ npm install --save steed 

Now in the index.js file, let's begin by setting up our dependencies:

const http = require('http') const fs = require('fs') const path = require('path') const steed = require('steed')() 

Now for some configuration:

const ...