express js

The Open Event Webapp Generator has a pure HTML front end form, and Express based backend.   We needed an option where users can upload their own JSON files to create a schedule page for it. On the HTML form that's easy. As you can see here we simple add input tags with type="file" <input type="file" name="sponsorfile" id="sponsorfile"> In our express app, we need to use multer to be able to handle file uploads. We create a middleware called uploadedFiles, and pass the middleware to the get() block   var express = require('express'); var multer = require('multer'); var app = express(); var upload = multer({dest: 'uploads/'}); var uploadedFiles = upload.fields([ {name: 'speakerfile', maxCount: 1}, {name: 'sessionfile', maxCount: 1}, {name: 'trackfile', maxCount: 1}, {name: 'sponsorfile', maxCount: 1}, {name: 'eventfile', maxCount: 1}, {name: 'locationfile', maxCount: 1} ]); app.post('/live', uploadedFiles, function(req, res) { // req.files has the files // req.body has the POST body params }); }); Now we can access the files inside req.files (that will have a path to the temporary location of the file, you'll have to use some filesystem module to read the files)