Formdata is passing null value in req.body nodejs

Question

I am passing a uploaded file through formdata from client to server, and the request by the server received has empty body. Here is the code, can someone please help?

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Answer 1

Your content-type will be

multipart/form-data

Not an application/json

Try to make something like this: https://programmingwithmosh.com/javascript/react-file-upload-proper-server-side-nodejs-easy/

Answer 2

You need to use a middleware like multer to parse form-data