title: Heroku filesystem
body: <p>I am new in development world. I am trying to understand how the Heroku filesystem works. </p>
  
  <p>I did an Express project using multer to upload images. </p>
  
  <p>In production, everything worked well including fetching the images from my static folder. </p>
  
  <p>However, when I did it with React (frontend=React &amp; Backend=Express) the images are not displaying even though console shows no error.</p>
  
  <p>According to my research Heroku says</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Heroku filesystem is ephemeral - that means that any changes to the
    filesystem whilst the dyno is running only last until that dyno is
    shut down or restarted</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>and that I should use a dedicated file storage service such as AWS S3 (for static files).</p>
  
  <p>How does this apply to my React project since I didn't use it  in the Express project?</p>