#Write file to disk within route.ts file

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glacial aurora
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Is it possible to stream a file to disk when submitted via a form (formData)?

Maybe I am missing something, but I see a limitation here. When you call await request.formData() it loads the file into memory.

What if my users upload a large file, and the server does not have enough memory to hold the file. I would like to write the file to disk so I can access it throughout the request lifecycle.

Imagine I am hosting my application on my own server, where I have 32GB of RAM, I upload a 50GB file, I need to store it on disk and not in memory. How can I do this?

barren oasisBOT
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