Hi,
Welcome to the community.
As you have correctly read, storing images is not a good approach.
With the latest releases, you now have the power of custom modules and formatters.
Since this looks like a NodeJS app, you can use it to convert the bytea type data to an image and return that in response.
You can get started here: PREVIEW: Wappler Extensibility - Writing Custom Modules and Formatters for Server Connect