In the previous article, we learned how to secure our APIs using JWT Authentication and protect routes from unauthorized access.

Now let's explore another feature used in almost every AI application—file uploads.

If you've built applications like ChatGPT, document Q&A systems, resume analyzers, legal contract reviewers, or medical report analyzers, one thing is common across all of them:

The user uploads a file.

Without file uploads, there is nothing for the AI model to process.