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I just started learning Node.js with Express Framework, In my React application user sends an Image in base64 format, to the endpoint /session/start, I want to store this base64 string and make it to buffer from another endpoint /session/recordFile, I tried to declare a global variable but there is no positive results :), I have a question, what is an appropriate way to achieve this result using Express.js?

const express = require("express");
const axios = require("axios");
const Twitter = require("twitter");
const serverless = require("serverless-http");
const cors = require("cors");
const path = require("path");
const fs = require("fs");
const oauth = require("oauth");

let GlobalFile;

//start session
router.post("/session/start", function (req, res) {
  const body = JSON.parse(req.body)
  const file = body.binary
  GlobalFile = file
});


router.get("/session/recordFile", function (req, res) {
  const buf = Buffer.from(GlobalFile, 'base64')
  res.send({mockFile: buf})
});
Nightcrawler
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It's generally a bad idea to assign this to a variable on route-level. If two people call your /start api, the variable will be overwritten with the data from the second call, before you managed to fetch the first data. This approach will not be scalable

Maybe you can check out this question to store your image in a temporary folder, and fetch it at a later time using the name of the file. If you can make the name of the file variable, you'll be able to do multiple GET calls, before doing your first POST without losing any data

Kasteelbier
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You will first need to store the image to disk or save Base64 string to DB or in-memory store like NEdb

To save image to Disk

fs.writeFile("out.png", body, 'base64', function(err) {
  console.log(err);
});

Then you can use saved image in GET API

let buff = fs.readFileSync('out.png');
let base64data = buff.toString('base64');
ssdev
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