form-data VS multer

The next request turned out to be a little more difficult to implement because it had to send a report.html file inside it, which first needed to be converted using the encoding type multipart form-data. Therefore to create readable "multipart/form-data" streams, I needed to use the Form-Data library. In order to install it locally, used the following command:

Because we don't have access to the FormData interface in Node.js as we do in the browser, we use the form-data library to construct a form. This is similar to a

Some basic examples of popular packages in the Javascript community include Express (a framework for building server applications) and Multer (a middleware for handling file uploads). These packages, when integrated into your project, can significantly streamline your development process.

Here are the docs for multer

You could use multipart/form-data https://github.com/expressjs/multer

multer - Middleware for Express.js to handle file uploads

busboy is what many Express middleware's such as multer use under the hood.

Maybe multer or validate-image-type?

🔀 Repositório no GitHub

Multer has some functions used to determine what type of file(s) to expect from the API request. Here we have used the 'multer.single("file")' function to let multer know that we're expecting a single file. (The full multer documentation can be found here).

You need something that can parse formData stuff. Like multer https://github.com/expressjs/multer