multer VS Express

Compare multer vs Express and see what are their differences.

multer

Node.js middleware for handling `multipart/form-data`. (by expressjs)

Express

Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node. (by expressjs)
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multer Express
20 673
11,334 63,725
1.0% 0.7%
4.7 7.6
3 days ago 7 days ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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multer

Posts with mentions or reviews of multer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-10.

Express

Posts with mentions or reviews of Express. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-21.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing multer and Express you can also consider the following projects:

busboy - A streaming parser for HTML form data for node.js

Next.js - The React Framework

react-native-image-picker - :sunrise_over_mountains: A React Native module that allows you to use native UI to select media from the device library or directly from the camera.

SvelteKit - web development, streamlined

form-data - A module to create readable `"multipart/form-data"` streams. Can be used to submit forms and file uploads to other web applications.

Nuxt.js - Nuxt is an intuitive and extendable way to create type-safe, performant and production-grade full-stack web apps and websites with Vue 3. [Moved to: https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt]

sharp - High performance Node.js image processing, the fastest module to resize JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF and TIFF images. Uses the libvips library.

AdonisJs Application

astro-form-data - Using Astro with FormData (difficult mode)

Restify - The future of Node.js REST development

dotenv - Loads environment variables from .env for nodejs projects.

fastify - Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js