Copy and paste from W3School
But I had a problem with WSL with following error:
Unhandled rejection Error: EXDEV: cross-device link not permitted
So I worked with maximum effort to google and paste from the following SO answer
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| <!-- public/index.html --> | |
| <form action="fileupload" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"> | |
| <input type="file" name="filetoupload"><br> | |
| <input type="submit"> | |
| </form> |
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| const express = require("express"); | |
| const app = express(); | |
| const formidable = require('formidable'); | |
| const fs = require('fs'); | |
| const path = require("path") | |
| app.use(express.static("public")); | |
| app.post("/fileupload", (req, res) => { | |
| var form = new formidable.IncomingForm(); | |
| form.parse(req, function (err, fields, files) { | |
| var oldpath = files.filetoupload.path; | |
| var newpath = path.join(__dirname, files.filetoupload.name) | |
| // Read the file | |
| fs.readFile(oldpath, function (err, data) { | |
| if (err) throw err; | |
| console.log('File read!'); | |
| // Write the file | |
| fs.writeFile(newpath, data, function (err) { | |
| if (err) throw err; | |
| res.write('File uploaded and moved!'); | |
| res.end(); | |
| console.log('File written!'); | |
| }); | |
| // Delete the file | |
| fs.unlink(oldpath, function (err) { | |
| if (err) throw err; | |
| console.log('File deleted!'); | |
| }); | |
| }); | |
| }); | |
| }); | |
| app.listen(8080, ()=> { | |
| console.log("WORKING 8080"); | |
| }); |
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| var http = require('http'); | |
| var formidable = require('formidable'); | |
| var fs = require('fs'); | |
| const path = require("path") | |
| http.createServer(function (req, res) { | |
| if (req.url == '/fileupload') { | |
| var form = new formidable.IncomingForm(); | |
| form.parse(req, function (err, fields, files) { | |
| var oldpath = files.filetoupload.path; | |
| var newpath = path.join(__dirname, files.filetoupload.name) | |
| // Read the file | |
| fs.readFile(oldpath, function (err, data) { | |
| if (err) throw err; | |
| console.log('File read!'); | |
| // Write the file | |
| fs.writeFile(newpath, data, function (err) { | |
| if (err) throw err; | |
| res.write('File uploaded and moved!'); | |
| res.end(); | |
| console.log('File written!'); | |
| }); | |
| // Delete the file | |
| fs.unlink(oldpath, function (err) { | |
| if (err) throw err; | |
| console.log('File deleted!'); | |
| }); | |
| }); | |
| }); | |
| } else { | |
| res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/html'}); | |
| res.write('<form action="fileupload" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">'); | |
| res.write('<input type="file" name="filetoupload"><br>'); | |
| res.write('<input type="submit">'); | |
| res.write('</form>'); | |
| return res.end(); | |
| } | |
| }).listen(8080); |
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