Node Cookbook - Third Edition

Getting ready

Let's create a new folder called uploading-a-file and create a server.js file and an uploads directory inside that:

$ mkdir uploading-a-file $ cd uploading-a-file $ touch server.js $ mkdir uploads 

We'll also want to initialize a package.json file and install multipart-read-stream and pump.

On the command line, inside the uploading-a-file directory, we run the following commands:

    $ npm init -y    $ npm install --save multipart-read-stream pump

StreamsFor more about streams (and why pump is essential), see the previous chapter, Chapter 4, Using Streams.

Finally, we'll make some changes to our form.html file from the last recipe:

<form method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">   <input type="file" name="userfile1"><br>  <input ...