Node.js 6.x Blueprints

Chapter 3.  Building a Multimedia Application

One of the most discussed topics in applications with Node.js is undoubtedly the loading and storage of files, whether text, images, audio, or videos. There are also many ways to do it; we will not get into deep technical details, but follow a brief overview of the two most important methods.

One is to save the file in binary format directly in your database, and the other way is to save the file directly on the server (the hard drive of the server), or a simple storage files in the cloud.

In this chapter, we will see a very practical way to make uploading files directly to the hard drive easy and will record the name of the file in our database as a reference. In this way, we can use a scalable storage ...