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SailsJS User upload images

I need to let my users upload images. But I don't know where can I create my "uploads" folder and how have access to it in my view.

In SailsJS, we have a folder assets/images, but all images in it will be copied in the public folder .tmp, when we lift sails (with Grunt). So I can't create my folder in .tmp neither in asset/images.

Someone have a solution ? Thanks

Solution

  • Assuming you are on a Linux-based system, you can just create your uploads folder in you project's root and symlink it from assets folder:

    mkdir uploads && cd assets && ln -s ../uploads

    Once Sails is lifted all the files from the uploads folder will be accessible via http://your.host.com/uploads/filename.ext, including the once you upload during runtime.

    That said, for large applications in production with a lot of uploads it would make sense to upload files directly to Amazon S3 or something similar and serve them via a CDN.