Learn how to split large files into chunks on the client side and upload them sequentially to a Node.js backend.
Intro
Clone upload file github repo and open with VS Code
Install packages for client and server side
Explanation of existing project setup
Explanation of Database Setup
Code for uploading a large file
Closing comments
Outro
In this video, I am going to build on top of the upload file tutorial code I have in another video.
Here is the link if you want to follow this setup first uploading a file in general (20mb or less)
youtu.be/s0Lenn0XKho
I will show you how to upload files larger than 20 megabytes to your server.
We will use a technique to break the file into blocks and upload the blocks to the backend where the file buffer will get appended each time.
We will also implement a progress bar with this feature.
Repo to clone from first tutorial:
github.com/npatel023/Upload-File
Code Repo:
github.com/npatel023/Upload-Large-File
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Hi guys in this video I show how to upload large files to your backend using Node.js
We are going to break the file into chunks and upload it to the server until the file is fully uploaded.