Spatie Media Uploader only works with base64?

[NuktukDev]

I'm trying to use the spatie Media helper package with backpack. I have my own image upload field, but looking at the backpack spatie helper package, it looks for "data:image" which I'm assuming is base64.

Because of this, it's not storing the media and instead not even giving an error, just pretends it worked successfully when it doesn't.

It never enters the conditions because I'm sending as a file, not base64.

Do I need to convert the file to base64 after validation or something? Or am I better off sending via js fetch as JSON?

[NuktukDev]

This has to do with the media uploader package, so will post an issue there.