How To Create A Password Protected File Sharing Site With Node.js, MongoDB, and Express

[@Deccoyi]

I'd like to see more simple project like this. Especially React + Express combinations :)

[@samareshdas767]

You stole my comment. Lol. That'd be really helpful

[@social_hub4703]

Svelte aswell! Not much full stack content out there with sveltw

[@bluegam3r_975]

You should learn nextjs

[@reydez84]

yeah same, would be nice!

[@wimpie1990]

I agree, this video is to project specific. No use into explaining only one road to the solution. I find the videos about "new things in javascript" or "how to write better/cleaner code" way more interesting and helpful in general.

[@anweshandev]

Quick tip: If you write *npm i -D * it is just to install dev dependencies.

[@anweshandev]

As you said this is perfect... I was making a file sharing project... And now I have graduated... 😁😆

[@maverick7291]

Is there a file size limit?

[@jjfattz]

It's impressive how you can communicate and flow through that entire tutorial without any "umms" or choppy mental glitches. Very sharp!

[@berk473]

Your tutorials are the most efficient and helpfull ones!! Thank you

[@smeefer]

Thanks for this!

[@tarekghosn3648]

maaan i was just yesterday working on your 2019 video about jwt im so happy you had this video happen as well

[@tusharrai9762]

create a file compression app using this one, it would be good content

[@muhammadtalha804]

Best demosntration of concepts

[@mattplaygamez]

I saw this a week ago in our gh repo. Nice video

[@sailee5208]

Thanks Kyle! Fully explained, super nice project.

[@bachbachir3998]

Very simple project, I like it, Please keep going with this method, Thank you very much.

[@t.rinity.]

I really wanna know how to secure the mern stack. That'd be amazing. I love all your videos about pieces of the mern stack you've been doing they're so helpful👍❤🤗 thank you Kyle!

[@Chris-qg6kc]

That Kyle guy...he’s pretty good. He just might make it to 1 mil subscribers one day....🧐

[@thawyezaw5480]

Not surprised, you are so good as always!

[@mubarakmustapha1144]

Your project is amazing, I love it ♥️♥️♥️

[@sambathravi6580]

Pls make video table add,delete selectable,sortable, column draggable using js

[@Elduque40]

Awesome!!! Maybe dockerising everything would be even better so people don’t have to install mongodb and what not locally

[@neociber24]

That sounds complex for a beginner following the tutorial

[@paulthomas1052]

Great tutorial. Thanks so much.

[@suleimansuleiman6784]

Thank you from syria❤

[@ohskynyrdlynyrd]

Amazing as always

[@mihailodrinic4003]

Can you create a tutorial where you use the mern stack?

[@topcoderfullstack]

Really really like you toturial

[@samadityajatar3539]

If you encounter a mongoose uri error add these lines to your code const dotenv = require('dotenv'); dotenv.config({path : "./views/config.env"})

[@MG-nn8dy]

Gah! Deployed to Heroku with an 'ephemeral server,' the dyno will cycle and flush the 'uploads' folder regularly. Was trying to migrate from mysql2 to mongo to store the images in the DB instead of the image path... looks like S3 buckets is almost a must.. gah

[@gideonabel9014]

God! I’m loving this

[@vinodvankar725]

Amazing as always, 😊😊

[@shubhamparmar9555]

Hey, dev I'm following your videos, and all are so amazing that I can't describe them in words. Just wanna say thank you so much and one last need your help can make an e-commerce website with frontend and backend in (mern) that will be good for us to )).

[@eminmuftic9927]

You should definitely do a more in depth tutorial on multer and how to work with files in large applications

[@sandipsaha4469]

More backend engineering videos please

[@alihamoud6863]

First thank u very very mach for this lessons, second can u learn us about build simple audio book , all love❤

[@linmus2370]

That was so awesome! Thank you so much. Could you make more videos on MERN stack, maybe on GraphQL as well, please?

[@srinivasjoshi4693]

Please teach us how to host this also 😃

[@ninjacodertech]

instead of doing something like if (file.password != null) just do if (file.password)

[@septimusforster]

Kyle, Kyle. (sigh) Thanks a bunch.

[@andrewkarp]

How would you handle giving users the ability to download multiple files into one folder then into their machine

[@anishsawant9790]

I am getting an error for File.create it says cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'create' )

[@LeadEngineer]

Problem is that the friend won't have access to the localhost if you don't port it

[@samuelhulme8347]

That is the problem with every type of server

[@LeadEngineer]

​@@samuelhulme8347 You're right 100%. But I don't know why he started with , "You can send this to a friend". You can if you do a little bit more work that I haven't seen in the clip. Or did I miss something?

[@callmejd9665]

@@LeadEngineer The project as seen in the video is run in a local development environment, as explained in the setup portion of the video. When you run the project in a production environment, you would run it on a dedicated server with a constant IP-address/domain and optionally adjust the environment variables. In that case, the link would then be accessible by other people. But you are correct in that it wasn't explicitely shown in the video how to do that.

[@Ryo21096]

Can you tell me about other windows also shrink when you resizing one window in this tutorial?

[@chaitanyagatreddi2670]

can we do it using mysql?

[@parthapaul4306]

is it possible to host this project in heroku , I mean does herouku allows for file upload and download ???

[@a.k.3531]

Great tutorial! Learnt so many thing so quickly. However, I have some issues. I am at File upload server logic section, and when I click share btn it says _message: 'File validation failed'. Do you have any ideas what's that all about?

[@charanbhavisetti2194]

can we deploy this application on web somehow ?

[@tigerwalkcommunications7426]

Bra please complete this project 🔥😩..... I'm failing to redirect pages, I want the link to be on it own page

[@ren5124]

Does it work for any files?

[@butowski9689]

Can you make a video on customer support chat please

[@morphman86]

With this, you're just one CDK Basics tutorial away from making modern, serverless, service-based cloud applications.

[@bluegam3r_975]

This Project could be made with nextjs very well

[@sanjeevmurmu6505]

why my download dialog box does not appear when i click on the download option

[@misterl8129]

Anyone can explain the why of the 2 methods get and post "file:id" please. I dont understand the thing about the form with the get and post :c

[@bulldog2024]

If someone cancels the download, the download count should not increment, correct?

[@RawandFaraidun]

how is this shortcut works in 6:43

[@user-eg4nz8zu4r]

How do I avoid entire app crashing when I visit a file path that does not exist?

[@ezmn4gdas]

How would I do this with sqLite instead of MongoDB

[@mattoattacko]

Anyone know how to deploy this? I think the EJS makes it not a simple drag-drop into Netlify.

[@shapelessed]

I'd honestly just use something like PouchDB and have the database tirhgtly integrated into the app...

[@dinethjayakody344]

can we use react instead of ejs?

[@chamith256]

Thank you for slowing the video. I didn't have to do it by myself❤💚🤎🤣

[@harshraj4161]

File.create Is giving me error, Can anyOne help??

[@akam9919]

First

[@programming8083]

At 22:17 when mentioning the file id, isn't it supposed to be file._id and not simply file.id? Do both of those work regardless?

[@mykalimba]

The "file" constant here is a Mongoose Document, whose API provides an "id" property, which is a string representation of the regular mongodb ObjectId identifier _id.

[@programming8083]

@@mykalimba Oh I see, that makes sense. Thanks for replying!

[@anandhukraju8044]

technically if we pass the url "/uploads/fillename" we should be able to retrieve it right?

[@mykalimba]

No, because neither the uploads folder nor anything within it are exposed as endpoints in the express router.

[@anandhukraju8044]

@@mykalimba ah shit man how did I miss such a silly thing.........

[@patrickgrady8213]

I love your videos. I subscribe and like. I hate that you don't use semicolons. Is there a reason you don't. Js is a c like language which means semicolons are necessary. Just because you don't actually use them, the browser puts them in for you. There are many bugs that can come from this and it is very hard to find them

[@M9625Rahul]

Semi colons are optional Also that is prettier extension which adds the semicolon

[@RedStone576]

there will be no bugs if you know what you're doing

[@patrickgrady8213]

@@RedStone576 if I knew what I was doing why would I be watching this video. Thanks for your help

[@patrickgrady8213]

But just to be sure. Semicolons are NOT optional in the JavaScript virtual machine inside the browser. I'm guessing v8. You are wrong v8 puts them in for you because you are lazy.

[@RedStone576]

@@patrickgrady8213 its not only v8, every implementation of ecmascript have this set rules for automatic semicolon insertion. also its not because that people are lazy, but the asi rules is already pretty well thought that many people is confident that their code will not break. well yes semicolon is necessary in most C like languages but that because back then line terminator is needed so they can simplify the compiler, unlike when js was developed; it's goal was to be an accessible scripting language that everyone can easily learn. hell even some modern languages coding convention recommends you to *not* use semicolon whenever its possible, it's just up to you if you wanna use it or not :-)

[@manthanank]

Is it work with multiple file upload and accessing one among it?

[@sneak9407]

Yes. With multer you can can multiple uploads or just get a single file from multiple uploads.

[@manthanank]

@@sneak9407 But previously uploaded is replaced by current uploaded file.

[@manthanank]

can we show all uploaded in list or in table format?

[@shawnyeo7086]

20.24

[@CrAzZyKiLleR01]

I find it so disappointing that you absolutely do not respond to questions or hints/comments from the community But yeah, nearly 1 Mio. Subs prove you right

[@WebDevSimplified]

I do respond to some comments but I get hundreds a day. I cannot keep up with and respond to them all. I try to read a lot of them though.

[@kathithsahu1804]

Second

[@diwakar_tsn]

🙂❤️

[@r4rama]

third

[@AtomTCP]

php is mum

[@ritikdwivedi5983]

0x0

[@RafaelPerches]

Dude, like every video of yours, this is awesome. But hey, what's the rush? Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesus....You speed so much it's like you're on 1.5x

[@marvelBoy1909]

Can you please make a video to connect this to hosted mongodb database and create a shareable link to anyone instead of localhost 🙏

[@ryan_roga]

I notice you use `npm i` over `npm install`. Did you know you can use `-D` instead of `--save-dev`? `npm i -D nodemon` will save you a few keystrokes ;)

[@Bandit01]

can you please make a video on giving better names to your classes,id,variables etc........

[@morphman86]

Should probably be a short about that, but it's quite simple: Make it as descriptive as possible, so that somebody who's ever seen the code before knows exactly what that symbol does.

[@panoscool_]

Kyle, why you didn't use imports instead of require? What version of nodejs you're using?

[@ronakmehta8106]

is there a reason to use ejs instead of react or normal html in the application ?

[@neociber24]

I think is just simplicity for the tutorial sake

[@GeronimOCZECH]

In ejs you can render html with data inside. Just a template lang like pug, hbs, etc.. React is more like express - it is mostly used for routing and rendering

[@MYNAMEISKLAY]

I think this tutorial was for those who are learning JS who also desire to learn backend dev quickly. Him doing this in React or another framework would've required him to actively teach those viewers how to use said framework.

[@bryson2662]

yes! more backend stuff.

[@mdhossen7082]

Wow Amazing and very helpful video, Thanks web dev simplify,

[@happynewyearw]

Great video as always! But it will be even better if we could start seeing ES6 modules import/export syntax instead of the old require (maybe just mention it only when necessary). so the whole community can learn and move on with modern syntax.

[@mohammadmahdifarnia5358]

Even though i think commonjs has good abilities like overriding require and using exports inside functions. import/export just feel like something new ( is which I appreciate too )

[@dilanbesong1877]

Thanks for this video sir, please can you make a video on how to auto delete documents in mongodb. Just like in WhatsApp status, using mongodb and express.

[@shinobiplug6824]

I have a question. What library is used for the public folder. You created a views folder since you using ejs.

[@ghfranklin]

If this is deployed, will it work? since we have locals.fileLink in the ejs files

[@breenud39tv]

What would you recommend to use better SQL, or mongodb?

[@weshuiz1325]

There is no better, only what is the right tool fir the right job

[@breenud39tv]

@@weshuiz1325 I want it for more of a social media up

[@M9625Rahul]

Then SQL

[@spurdosparde843]

What about using FastAPI?

[@wonghw]

One of the best tutorial that I have ever watched! Thank you very much

[@onuohagraphics4133]

As cool as always, thanks for simplifying the web 😁😊😊

[@JoezihFreelancer]

I love your coding concept

[@MiSt3300]

very interesting, thanks!

[@ccoedIT]

Keep going broo👍👍👍

[@Its_muhib]

Love

[@IyanSR]

Hi Kyle, thanks for the content, always! If you dont mind, can you share how to create web3 wallet like metamask? Thank you

[@adityanayak01]

+1

[@luce9574]

Thank you (Web Dev Simplified) this helped me a lot