Vimeo API: Upload from a File Using a Form

I followed the docs for the vimeo node.js api to upload a file. It's quite simple and I have it working by running it directly in node, with the exception that it requires me to pass the full path of the file I want to upload. Code is here:

function uploadFile() {
    let file = '/Users/full/path/to/file/bulls.mp4';
    let video_id; //the eventual end URI of the uploaded video

    lib.streamingUpload(file, function(error, body, status_code, headers) {
       if (error) {
       throw error;
    }

    lib.request(headers.location, function (error, body, status_code, headers) {
      console.log(body);
      video_id = body.uri;
      //after it's done uploading, and the result is returned, update info
      updateVideoInfo(video_id);
    });
    }, function(upload_size, file_size) {
       console.log("You have uploaded " + 
       Math.round((upload_size/file_size) * 100) + "% of the video");
  });
}

Now I want to integrate into a form generated in my react app, except that the result of evt.target.files[0] is not a full path, the result is this:

File {name: "bulls.mp4", lastModified: 1492637558000, lastModifiedDate: Wed Apr 19 2017 14:32:38 GMT-0700 (PDT), webkitRelativePath: "", size: 1359013595…}

Just for the sake of it, I piped that into my already working upload function and it didn't work for the reasons specified. Am I missing something? If not I just want to clarify what I actually have to do then. So now I'm looking at the official Vimeo guide and wanted to make sure that was the right road to go down. See: https://developer.vimeo.com/api/upload/videos

So if I'm reading it right, you do several requests to achieve the same goal?

1) Do a GET to https://api.vimeo.com/me to find out the remaining upload data they have.

2) Do a POST to https://api.vimeo.com/me/videos to get an upload ticket. Use type: streaming if I want a resumable upload such as those provided by the vimeo streamingUpload() function

3) Do a PUT to https://1234.cloud.vimeo.com/upload?ticket_id=abcdef124567890

4) Do a PUT to https://1234.cloud.vimeo.com/upload?ticket_id=abcdef124567890 but without file data and the header Content-Range: bytes */* anytime I want to check the bytes uploaded.

Sound right? Or can you simply use a form and I got it wrong somewhere. Let me know. Thanks.

via Aaron Chamberlain