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> Another advantage of multipart is that the server can stream each part separately. For example, say you're uploading 5 files by encoding them into a JSON object. Your server will have to buffer the entire JSON object into memory, decode it, and examine each file.

That's not true. You can stream JSON, too. You just have to do something fancier than JSON.stringify().




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