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Build a Node.js Restify Framework Tutorial to Upload Files to the Server Using HTML Form in Browser
Jun 7, 2025
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uh hello guys welcome to this live
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stream So in this live stream I will
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show you a new NodeJS framework which is
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called as
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restify It's a very minimalistic uh
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framework for building web applications
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and can be a great alternative to
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frameworks such as ExpressJS
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NestJS So this is their official website
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restify.com the name of the framework If
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you just write restify on Google the
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very first website which comes this is
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actually their web service framework you
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can build very good applications using
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this framework So I in this video I will
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show you a very basic tutorial on how to
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get started with this framework on how
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to upload files using a simple HTML form
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So as you can see we our application has
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been started and it has been running on
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localhost 3000 So if I just open the
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port number So the application looks
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something like this We have a simple
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HTML form where the user can simply
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select a file and upload and all the
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uploaded files will be residing in this
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folder We have created a uploads folder
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Currently this folder is empty So as
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soon as I select a file here you will
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see let me choose a file
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So as soon as I select the image here
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click upload You will get this response
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back from the rest API that the file is
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uploaded successfully And it also gives
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the name of the file which has assigned
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And you can see the file is successfully
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uploaded in the folder And if I try this
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for the second time here let's suppose I
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want
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to let's suppose I select this file
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again the same process will repeat and
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you will see the file is successfully
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uploaded So now to get started here you
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need to install this module So just go
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to your command line simply create a
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NodeJS project
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npmi and just write
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restify So this is a command here to
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install this I have already installed it
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So your package dojson file will look
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something like this
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you will have this
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restify So it will install the latest
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version And now I will delete everything
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and start from scratch Just create a
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basic index.js file
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and I will
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just write the code from scratch So
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right here you need to import all the
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necessary packages which are required So
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first of all we will be importing the
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restify framework we will require it and
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then we also need the built-in packages
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such as the file system module and the
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path module as well
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So after requiring it now we will start
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a basic server of restify So this is
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very easy We simply say restify and it
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contains this function create server So
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as soon as you can see we imported this
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module at the top and then we are
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creating a HTTP server and right here
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after that we can simply pass this
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middleware server dot
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use But before that let me start this
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HTTP server For starting it we have this
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listen function So we simply say
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server.list and here you provide the
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port number and then inside the callback
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function This is very much similar to
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express So now the application will
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start If you run this application
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nodemon you will see app is running on
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port 5,000 So I just need to bind a
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simple HTTP request right here So we can
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simply create HTTP request simply typing
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server.get and right here we will say
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slash So this will be the home route and
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here we will have the call back function
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and inside this we will return a simple
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message or in this case a simple file
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HTTP file sorry a form where the user
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can
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actually see a form where they can
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upload file So content type will be text
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/ HTML And after that we
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will simply pass this HTML code right
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here And here you can have a simple
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form So this form will be this form
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right here You can see form action And
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we making a simple post request to this
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route/upload encoding type multiart form
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data And after that we have this input
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type file We have given this name
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attribute name is equal to file and then
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we have a simple button of upload So
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that's all that is there And if I try to
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open this application now you will see
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this form will be showing you can see
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localhost 5,000 and this form is showing
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right here So now as soon as I do this
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if I try to upload a file you will see
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it will get this error message that
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/upload doesn't exist you will get this
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error message Now in order to fix this
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we need to make this post request For
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making this post request we simply say
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server.post and
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/upload And then we simply say request
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response next This is a simple HTTP
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request And then we will get access to
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the file here This is really important
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because we given this name attribute
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right here If you see name is equal to
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file So we are simply accessing this
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name attribute right here You can call
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this anything but I'm just calling it
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file So this needs to be the same After
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we get access to the file it's very easy
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to upload the file So we use the path
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module of
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NodeJS We get the current directory and
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there we provide the directory where
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which will be uploading the file So we
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get the file name by using file dot name
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So just create this
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directory I already created this
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directory uploads So let me just delete
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everything from
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here You can call this anything I'm
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calling it
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uploads And then we'll use the file
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system module It contains this write
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file sync function And we'll save this
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file So after that we will send out a
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simple message to the user that your
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file is successfully uploaded We
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simply give it a message property that
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is file
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uploaded
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successfully and then the second
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property we can even return the file
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name as well So file dot name So this
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completes your application If I try to
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test this application now and just go to
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localhost 5,000 you will actually see
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now if I see localhost 5,000 this is
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actually the form If I try to upload a
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file and click upload
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uh there is some kind of error is
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occurred Let me
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see request
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files and this error if you are getting
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this error message I think we forgot to
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include the middleware So just include
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this middleware it's necessary server
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dot
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use and restify it contains this
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middleware this plugins dot body
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parser So this is required while you're
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working with forms So map file to be
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true This line you need to write add
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this
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middleware this body parson middleware
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Now we can easily access the file by the
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name attribute So if you refresh again
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this application now this application
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will perfectly work Select upload and
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now you can see file uploaded
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successfully and you will get your file
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in the uploads directory If I repeat
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this process
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here and
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uh you will see the next file will get
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uploaded So in this easy way you can use
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this minimalistic NodeJS
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uh framework for building web
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applications It's a great alternative to
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express So I showed you the full file
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upload functionality Thank you very much
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for watching this video and please hit
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