easy-formdata

easy-formdata is a module to parse form data easily

Usage

const { expressParser, isFile } = require("easy-formdata");
const express = require("express");
const app = express();

app.use(expressParser());

app.post("/api", ({ body }, res) => {
  for(const key in body){
    if(isFile(body[key]))
      console.log(`${key} is ${body[key].size} bytes file`);
    else
      console.log(`${key} is a text field`);  
  }
  res.send(body);
})

app.listen(4000, () => console.log("server started"));

Types

expressParser

is the middleware that parsers the formdata for express

isFile

returns true if the argument passed is a File Object

File

an interface having this properties

  interface File {
    /** the file name */
    filename: string;
    /** the encoding of the file  */
    encoding: string;
    /** the mimetype of the file */
    mimetype: string;
    /** the size of the file */
    size: number;
    /** the data of the file */
    data: Buffer;
  }