Here is a very simple, bare minimum example to demonstrate how Express 4 and body-parser module.
I’m using ejs as the rendering engine because it looks like html.
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Here’s a very simple upload example with express 4+ and formidable. According to Express doc:
In Express 4, req.files is no longer available on the req object by default. To access uploaded files on the req.files object, use a multipart-handling middleware like busboy, multer, formidable, multiparty, connect-multiparty, or pez.
So here’s an example combining the two.
The code is going to save the files you upload in disk under the folder /uploads in the root directory of the project. Continue reading Simple File Upload with Express.js and Formidable in Node.js
It’s actually incredibly easy to send http/https requests to servers with Node.js. Node contains a bunch of native function for that, making it very easy to send REST requests. I’m going to demonstrate with Node’s own http.request(options[, callback]) method.
The four most common HTTP requests are GET, POST, PUT, DELETE. The type of request determines the type of operation the request sender would like the server to perform.
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