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Node.js sample projects
Last updated: Feb-17-2025
We've created some sample projects to get you started with integrating Cloudinary into your Node.js application.
Photo Album
The Photo Album app demonstrates best practices for integrating Cloudinary within a Node.js environment.
This sample project provides several RESTful API endpoints — some designed for CLI-based use cases and others for showcasing how to use Node.js as the backend for a browser-based application.
The browser-based implementation utilizes LIT, one of many options available for building a UI around a Node.js REST API.
Two endpoints, /upload-from-local and /upload-large-from-local, can be accessed directly. These endpoints perform operations using Node.js's built-in file system module.
All other endpoints demonstrate various methods for uploading files via a browser-based UI.
Here's the Photo Album app in action, showcasing its browser-based UI:
Here's an excerpt from the code showing the uploadFromBrowser route handler:
const uploadFromBrowser = async (request, reply) => {
console.log('Uploading files from the browser');
try {
const data = await request.file();
const buffer = await data.toBuffer();
await new Promise((resolve) => {
cloudinary.uploader
.upload_chunked_stream({ tags }, (error, uploadResult) => {
if (error) {
reply.code(500).send({ error: 'Failed to upload image' });
} else {
resolve(uploadResult);
reply.send({
url: uploadResult.secure_url,
public_id: uploadResult.public_id,
});
}
})
.end(buffer);
});
} catch (error) {
console.error(error);
}
};App Gallery
The Cloudinary app gallery provides a variety of fully working apps that incorporate Cloudinary as part of the tech stack, built in various popular programming languages.
Each app in the gallery presents an overview of the functionality, a link to the open-source repo, and complete setup instructions, so that you can grab the code and easily build your own version.
