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I don't have a lot of front end experience, but the way I've done it in the past was with <a download href="example.com/my/download/route"></a> and that a
by jjice 5y ago
I don't have a lot of front end experience, but the way I've done it in the past was with
<a download href="example.com/my/download/route"></a>
and that always worked well for me. No idea if that would be helpful at all, I'm operating at a very surface level knowledge here.
- thunderbong 5y agoThat's the way to do if I want to just download a file. But the comments seem to be mentioning a scenario where they would like to download the file via Javascript.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoI’m talking about saving data received from an asynchronous fetch response as a file on oval file system.
- CornCobs 5y agoYou can do anything with the DOM in javascript - you could create an anchor node then download the file automatically via a.click()
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoThat's how I do it now. And it's an ugly hack. Why is it not natively supported?
- rasz 5y agoWhat would you consider a native support? ability to drop files on user drives without prompt?
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoNo, of course not. I’m not talking about the user experience. I’m talking about native support in the fetch API to take downloaded data and save it to a file. User experience might be the user being prompted for a location, etc, just like now when saving a file through a hyperlink download.