NestJS File Streaming

Features

• Efficient upload / download
• Very low RAM usage
• Great for providing large files without storing them in the filesystem
• Can be used to efficiently stream video files (skipping in the timeline will result in a partial download)
• Accepts range header to support partial downloads

Used packages

• Fastify Adapter for performance
• Mongoose to connect to MongoDB
• MongoDB GridFS for streaming chunked files to and from Mongo DB
• fastify-multipart to parse Multipart forms

Setup

Docker

• docker-compose up -d
• Swagger documentation can be found at http://localhost:3101/api/

Local

• Start a MongoDB instance with default configuration
• Use npm start to compile and start the server
• Swagger documentation can be found at http://localhost:3101/api/

Usage

• Upload a file: POST to http://localhost:3101/ as multipart/form-data with file field
• Download an uploaded file: GET to http://localhost:3101/<id>
• GET to http://localhost:3101 for list of uploaded videos
• More information can be found in the Swagger Documentation

Caution! This is not a production grade server