Multer not uploading files to directory and no errors showing - node.js

Question

I'm trying to get Multer to save images in an src/uploads directory. Everything seems to work fine with no errors but the src/uploads directory is empty after the endpoint is called.
I'm using a microservices architecture using Node, Express, and running it locally DockerDesktop + Kubernetes using Skaffold.
Here is my route:
const router = express.Router();
let storage = multer.diskStorage({
destination: function (req, file, cb) {
cb(null, path.join(__dirname, './uploads'));
},
filename: function (req, file, cb) {
cb(null, file.originalname);
},
});
let upload = multer({ storage });
router.post(
'/api/products/images',
upload.single('image'),
async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
console.log(req.file);
res.status(201).send('success');
},
);
export { router as imageRouterRouter };
My app file includes:
app.use(imageRouterRouter);
app.use('/uploads', express.static(__dirname));
I know I'm receiving the file successfully via postman, Multer is 'uploading' it and the path is correct as I'm logging the following req.file:
[products] {
[products] fieldname: 'image',
[products] originalname: 'cute-dog.jpeg',
[products] encoding: '7bit',
[products] mimetype: 'image/jpeg',
[products] destination: '/app/src/uploads',
[products] filename: 'cute-dog.jpeg',
[products] path: '/app/src/uploads/cute-dog.jpeg',
[products] size: 18473
[products] }
Any help would be much appreciated as I've spent a couple days on it with no luck. Thanks.

Answer 1

I figured out what the problem was.
I was checking the src/uploads directory on my LOCAL machine, expecting it to contain the new files. But because I'm using docker, the new files were written to the container instead.
Using the below, I explored the container and confirmed the files were there:
docker exec -it <container_id> /bin/sh
Hope this helps anyone else who is as silly as me.