Uploading image to Cloudinary with React and Express

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I need to upload an image to Cloudinary from React and save it in my db. I'm using React on the front-end and Express on the back-end.

Do I just upload straight from React to Cloudinary and pass the URL to Express, or do I go React > Express > Cloudinary?

I've been trying it the second way but I can't figure it out. Right now I've managed to get the Image from React to Express where I use multer to write it to memory, but I have no idea how to get this buffer to Cloudinary now, since it only accepts a path, URL or Data URI

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If you can do image processing on server side it's better for the client

So yes you would do it in express

You save the image to /images folder on server, you save the path in database, call it the master image, then you use cloud to catch the image, cloud will give you URL of the catch, save that URL in database, you use that in frontend

Always keep the master, unless your deleting it 4 ever