cld-intro-nodejs

Introduction to Cloudinary Using Node

Environment Setup

Install Node.js and NPM

You will need to install Node.js on your machine, version 10 or higher. Important - Installing Node.js will also install npm, the package manager for Node.js.

Mac Users

Using Homebrew:

brew install node

Windows

Download for windows

Verify Node/NPM install

# verify versions
$ node --version
v16.13.0

$ npm --version
8.1.0

Choose an IDE or Use Text Editor

• Visual Studio Code
• WebStorm
• Sublime
• Atom
• iTerm

Download Repository

Introduction to Cloudinary for API Users and Node.js Developers

• Node scripts for this module are located in the /optimization, access-control directories
• Assets are located in /assets directory
• Run code from root directory

Credentials

1. Create a free account on Cloudinary at [https://www.cloudinary.com/signup]

2. Navigate to the Dashboard. Copy the CLOUDINARY_URL into your clipboard.

• Key: CLOUDINARY_URL
• Value: cloudinary://API_KEY:API_SECRET@CLOUD_NAME

3. Create a .env file in the root of the project. Paste the CLOUDINARY_URL environment variable into your .env file.

Run Code: Test Credentials

Make sure to npm install the Node.js libraries. You will be using the cloudinary and the dotenv libraries.

npm i

node testCredentials.js

You should see your Cloud Name, API Key, and API_SECRET. PS- Keep your secret private!

Run Code:

Example- run scripts from the root because all references to local assets are relative to the root.

All of the functions are commented out for demo purposes, so you'll first need to uncomment functions to run them.

node upload.js