Establish a connection bgetween node js and react-native app

Question

So I'm trying to make an app that lets me send files from my computer to an app on my phone but I don't know how to connect the react-native app and the node/express server or how I can send a relatively large file over the server. Can someone please help cause I can't seem to figure it out.

Answer 1

I assume you understand the minimal concepts of a RESTful API since you tagged this post with Express. React-native can use axios from where you can make requests on the client side using FormData . You can make your request similar to:

var request= new FormData();
request.append('file', csvFile);

axios.post(URL, request)
     .then(response => {})
     .catch(error => {})