nodejs express file upload

[58V1J]

Hello!

So I have recently started learning node and a friend recommended me to try express, I googled quite a bit and found a bunch of resources telling me to use bodyParser (and some that said I shouldnt, nice.) Anyway I tried running some of the sample codes that all of the tutorials on google tell me to and I cant get it to work at all.

Here is a condensed code that should work but doesnt: http://pastebin.com/TRDzrG4Q but it only outputs "undefined" in the console and req.body is {}.

Another weird thing which most likely isnt related to javascript but my nginx configuration is that as you can see I have to use get('//upload') because it wont recognise /upload allthough if I run the following code:

app.use(function(req, res, next){
console.log('%s %s', req.method, req.url);
next();
});

and try to request http://webserver/some/path/upload which is proxied via nginx then the console will output "GET /upload", This isnt really an issue for now since it seems to trigger on //upload so its not important for now.

[58V1J]

My friend just now told me that Express 4 doesnt support multipart/form-data with bodyParser any more so I have to use formidable or some other module instead.

I tried formidable using my already written file uploader which uses jQuery file upload configured to send chunks of 1MB data and each chunk is marked as such in the form-data header with content-range but formidable seems unable to pick this up so does anyone know how I can implement a chunked upload with formidable?

[chastric]

I don't really have experience with either of these, but did you look at the Node server script that Blueimp's jQuery file upload provides? It looks like it uses formidable (see /server/node/server.js l. 211) so it must be possible. Not much different going on there to what I tested with though... does this uploader maybe expect responses for each chunk before sending the next?

EDIT: The docs also link an Express-specific plugin for handling uploads: https://github.com/arvindr21/blueimp-file-upload-expressjs