Read Files
Explore how to build secure server-side routes in Node.js that allow authenticated users to read and search their uploaded files. Learn to retrieve all files by user, get specific files by ID, and implement search functionality using query parameters and regex matching. Understand the importance of authentication middleware to protect user data and test your endpoints using Postman.
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In this lesson, we’ll implement the essential endpoints that allow web applications to perform the basic operations that a user expects. Just to review, these basic operations are called CRUD (create, read, update, and delete) operations.
We have already implemented the create operation, which is the upload functionality. So now, we’ll implement the necessary read endpoints.
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We’ll get all the files uploaded by a user.
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We’ll get a file uploaded by a user with its ID.
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