18: Image Uploads w/ AWS S3

Submission Instructions

• fork this repository & create a new branch for your work
• write all of your code in a directory named lab- + <your name> e.g. lab-susan
• push to your repository
• submit a pull request to this repository
• submit a link to your PR in canvas
• write a question and observation on canvas

Learning Objectives

• students will be able to upload static assets to AWS S3
• students will be able to retrieve a cdn url that contains the previously uploaded static asset
• students will be able to work with secret and public access keys

Requirements

Configuration

• package.json
• .eslintrc
• .gitignore
• README.md

Description

• create an AWS account
• create an AWS Access Key and Secret
  • add the Access Key and Secret to your .env file
• create a new model that represents a file type that you want to store on AWS S3
  • ex: .mp3, .mp4, .png, etc
• create a test that uploads one of these files to your route
• use the aws-sdk to assist with uploading
• use multer to parse the file upload request

Server Endpoint

• POST - /api/resource/:resourceID/new-resource

Tests

• POST - 200 - test that the upload worked and a resource object is returned

Bonus

• DELETE route - /api/resource/:resourceID/new-resource/:new-resourceID
• Test: DELETE - 204 - test to ensure the object was deleted from s3

Bonus: 3pts

• try using the deleteObject method provided by the aws-sdk to delete an object (file) from S3
  • you will need to pass in a params object that contains the associated Bucket and AWS object key in order to delete the object from s3
  • ex:

  var params = {
    Bucket: 's3-bucket-name',
    Key: 'object-filename'
  }
  s3.deleteObject(params)

• don't forget to remove the resource from the DB