form-data/form-data

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Node.js library for creating readable multipart/form-data streams, inspired by the XMLHttpRequest-2 FormData interface. It supports appending strings, buffers, and file streams, and can submit forms and file uploads to other web applications.

Use cases

• upload files to an http endpoint from node
• build multipart/form-data request bodies with streams
• submit forms programmatically to web applications
• append buffers and file streams to a form payload
• mimic browser FormData in nodejs

When to choose

• you need multipart/form-data uploads in Node.js with stream support
• you want an API matching the browser FormData interface
• you need to upload large files without buffering them in memory

When to avoid

• you are in a browser and can use the native FormData API
• you only need JSON request bodies
• you are using fetch with built-in FormData support and don't need stream submission

Facets

library · maturity stable

http-client serialization file-upload web-development backend apis developer-tools serverless multipart-form-data file-upload streams formdata npm nodejs

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