Chinese-AR-App

Guide

To start the backend:

"npm run devStart"

To seed the db:

Run "npm run seed"

Database Details

• Mongoose hosted on MongoDB Atlas

Multer set-up

Basic Info

• Helper functions to upload and download images from S3 are stored in s3.js
• Controller functions for upload/download are stored in userCtrl.js

How to upload/download images to/from S3 from frontend

• To upload images (frontend > express > AWS S3 bucket):

const result = await axios.post(
  `localhost:3008/api/images`,
  formData,
  {
    headers: { "Content-Type": "multipart/form-data" },
  }
);

• To download and read image data (AWS S3 bucket > express > frontend):

<img src={`${REACT_APP_BACKEND}/images/05e735782f00bba93f01df9335ecde0a`} ></img>