Base64 Image uploading for Laravel 5.6+ using Storage Facade

ImageUpload.php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Storage;

//...

$base64image = '...';
@list($type, $file_data) = explode(';', $base64image);
@list(, $file_data) = explode(',', $file_data); 
$type = explode(";", explode("/", $base64image)[1])[0];
$path = 'images/' . time() . '.' . $type;
Storage::disk('local')->put($path, base64_decode($file_data));

RetrieveImage.php

Route::get('images/{file}', function($file)
{
	
	$type = pathinfo($file);  // get file type
	$file = Storage::disk(env('STORAGE_DRIVER', 'local'))->get('images/'.$file); // retrieve the file from storage
	$response = Response::make($file, 200);
	$response->header("Content-Type", $type);

	return $response;
});