Expo React Native upload an image to Laravel in backend - laravel

Question

I am fairly new to coding and I'm in the learning phase for both React Native and Laravel. I was working on some practice project and I needed to upload an image from my React Native app to the Laravel server and from the server I could save it on a cloud or something. I can upload and display the image on the app using expo-image-picker but I just can't seem to get it to post it to the server using formData.
Also, why is that when I console.log formData why is it showing an empty object?
My code to loading the image and uploading it:
pickImage = async () => {
let result = await ImagePicker.launchImageLibraryAsync({
mediaTypes: ImagePicker.MediaTypeOptions.All,
allowsEditing: true,
aspect: [4, 3],
quality: 1,
});
console.log(result);
if(!result.cancelled)
{
this.setState({
image : result.uri
})
}
// ImagePicker saves the taken photo to disk and returns a local URI to it
let localUri = result.uri;
//console.log("localUri:", localUri)
let filename = localUri.split('/').pop();
console.log("filename:", filename)
// extract the filetype
//let fileType = localUri.substring(localUri.lastIndexOf(".") + 1);
//console.log(fileType)
let fileType = localUri.substring(localUri.lastIndexOf(":") + 1,localUri.lastIndexOf(";")).split("/").pop();
console.log("type:", fileType)
let formData = new FormData();
formData.append("photo", {
uri : localUri,
name: `photo.${fileType}`,
type: `image/${fileType}`
});
console.log("formdata", formData)
let options = {
method: "POST",
body: formData,
headers: {
Accept: "application/json",
"Content-Type": "multipart/form-data"
}
};
let response = await fetch(`${this.props.url}imagetest`, options)
result = await response.json()
console.log(result)
My simple code for api.php in Laravel is:
Route::post("/imagetest", function (Request $request) {
return ["uploaded" => $request->hasFile("photo")];
});

Answer 1

Found the solution at
send image using Expo
The problem I was having, I was testing it by running the code on web, when I ran it on the device I could see the formdata as well as the image was been uploaded too