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mesh
mesh

Reputation: 1003

nodejs - How to read and output jpg image?

I've been trying to find an example of how to read a jpeg image and then show the image.

var http = require('http'), fs = require('fs');

http.createServer(function (req, res) {
    res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/html'});

fs.readFile('image.jpg', function (err, data) {
  if (err) throw err;
  res.write(data);
});

res.end();
}).listen(8124, "127.0.0.1");
console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8124/');

Tried the following code but I think the encoding needs to be set as buffer. Using console.log it outputs 'Object' for the data.

Upvotes: 58

Views: 184381

Answers (2)

maerics
maerics

Reputation: 156384

Here is how you can read the entire file contents, and if done successfully, start a webserver which displays the JPG image in response to every request:

var http = require('http')
var fs = require('fs')

fs.readFile('image.jpg', function(err, data) {
  if (err) throw err // Fail if the file can't be read.
  http.createServer(function(req, res) {
    res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'image/jpeg'})
    res.end(data) // Send the file data to the browser.
  }).listen(8124)
  console.log('Server running at http://localhost:8124/')
})

Note that the server is launched by the "readFile" callback function and the response header has Content-Type: image/jpeg.

[Edit] You could even embed the image in an HTML page directly by using an <img> with a data URI source. For example:

  res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/html'});
  res.write('<html><body><img src="data:image/jpeg;base64,')
  res.write(Buffer.from(data).toString('base64'));
  res.end('"/></body></html>');

Upvotes: 104

user2248133
user2248133

Reputation: 29

Two things to keep in mind Content-Type and the Encoding

1) What if the file is css

if (/.(css)$/.test(path)) {
  res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/css'}); 
  res.write(data, 'utf8');
}

2) What if the file is jpg/png

if (/.(jpg)$/.test(path)) {
  res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'image/jpg'});
  res.end(data,'Base64');
}

Above one is just a sample code to explain the answer and not the exact code pattern.

Upvotes: 1

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