Chapter 4. Dont Take a Photograph, Make It – An App for Photographers

In this chapter, we will discuss a topic much discussed in the Node.js community around the world–image manipulation using the Node.js architecture and cloud.

As we have seen in the previous chapter, we have two ways to store images and files, using a hard disk on our server or directly to the cloud. In Chapter 03Building a Multimedia Application, we used the approach of uploading directly to our server, storing the images on the hard drive.

In this chapter, we will use a server in the cloud to store and manipulate images in our Photobook application.

We will use a service called Cloudinary to store and manipulate the images.

In this chapter, we will cover these topics:

  • How to ...

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