NPM Module to Upload Files & Auto Upload Assets for Express Applications to Digital Ocean Spaces

Do-Assets allows you to upload files from your server / http requests to Digital Ocean's Object Storage. It also automatically uploads all the files from a specified folder to DO Spaces whenever your NodeJS application starts or restarts!

Installation

$ cd your-node-app
$ npm i do-assets

In app.js add the following setup right after setup for connect-assets (if already present)

...
var asset_config = JSON.parse(
  fs.readFileSync(
    __dirname+'/config/assets_'+process.env.NODE_ENV+'.json', "utf8"
  )
);
var assets = require('connect-assets')(asset_config);
...
var doAssets = require('do-assets')({
  assetsPath: __dirname+"/public/assets", // Path of the folder to upload assets from
  folder: "assets" // name of the folder on DO Spaces
});

Now run the app with the ENV variables

$ NODE_ENV=production ACCESS_KEY_ID=<DO-ACCESS-KEY-ID> SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<DO-SECRET-ACCESS> REGION_NAME=<DO-REGION> BUCKET_NAME=<DO-BUCKET-NAME> SERVICE_NAME=s3 node app.js

And you are done!

If you are using connect-assets, just mention the serverPath as follows:

{ 
  'servePath': 'https://<bucket-name>.<region-name>.digitaloceanspaces.com/<folder-name>/'
}

Now all the assets loaded using js, css and assetPath methods will start loading assets from DO Spaces!

Happy Coding!

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License

MIT Free Software, Hell Yeah!