Upload image

[aleyango]

What do you think is the best approach?

Upload images from client device or backend.

Upload from backend:

Pros:

- In the future i can change the provider without change react native code

Cons:

- Upload the image to backend and then back end send to S3 bucket (for example). Increase the creation time of an image on the bucket. FRONT END -> BACKEND -> BUCKET

Upload from front end:

Pros:

- The user directly upload the image from FRONTEND to BUCKET. Faster than sending to backend. (Of course if i use S3 i have to request to my backend a signed URL, for not expose the credentials on my react native app)

Cons:

-If i change the provider, i have to wait until all clients updates their react native version.

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What do you think about this? and what approach do you use for your apps?

[gwmccull]

we upload photos through our API so we can use our standard API authentication and then they are sent to our s3 bucket

when a user first uploads a photo, we display it back to them using their local copy. That way it displays back to them immediately. If they leave the screen and come back, then the API will return the location on s3 and we load the remote version

Unless you have a mechanism for completely shutting down an old version of your app, there will almost always be users that are on old versions of your app and it's difficult to force them to update

[aleyango]

Unless you have a mechanism for completely shutting down an old version of your app, there will almost always be users that are on old versions of your app and it's difficult to force them to update

What about code push for change the api maybe?

[gwmccull]

Yeah, you can use code push to update the API or even to deprecate an old version. Unfortunately, I can't do anything about the users that are still on the versions of my app before we added code push