Not saving to home folder (~) under Linux

[sansjunk]

var multer = require('multer');
var upload = multer({
  // dest: '~/uploads/' --> Does not  work
  dest: '/home/santosh/uploads/' // --> Works
});

Multer actually ends up creating a folder named "~" under the app root folder.

[LinusU]

This is expected behaviour and is how all other fs-functions work in Node.js.

Can I recommend you to use the untildify package to solve this?

const multer = require('multer')
const untildify = require('untildify')

const upload = multer({
  dest: untildify('~/uploads')
})

// ...

[sansjunk]

@LinusU thanks. I was not aware of that.

[jpfluger]

For more info...

See this discussion which contains links to even more discussions.

Also, untildify references the home dir that will replace the tilde via the os module.

const os = require('os');
const home = os.homedir();