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For static files like pdfs, Word docs, etc. just use Express's static function in your config: this.use('/public', express.static('public')); // <-- This right here. And then just put all your files inside that 'public' folder, for example: And then a regular old link will allow the user to download it:
Oct 4, 2014 · My story is as follows: a user uploads a txt file to an express.js server, where the text file is transformed to a pdf file; the pdf file can be streamed back to the browser via request.pipe. I can get the stream on the user side, but how to let the browser download the stream as a pdf file?
Aug 28, 2017 · According to Express document, res.download() API is: res.download (path [, filename] [, fn]) Transfers the file at path as an “attachment”. Typically, browsers will prompt the user for download. By default, the Content-Disposition header “filename=” parameter is path (this typically appears in the browser dialog).
This code snippet is using node.js with the excel4node and express modules in order to convert JSON data to an Excel file and send it to the client, using Javascript.
Jul 14, 2020 · I'm trying to allow a user to be able to download a zip folder from a server via an express JS api call. I've created my folder with: zip -r download.zip folder-to-zip and am struggling to get it to download. It seems if I make a GET request to some endpoint, it only downloads it to the server rather than the browser, my endpoint is:
Node Express.js - Download file from memory - 'filename must be a string' 0. Express sendFile function. 1.
Apr 5, 2020 · If I've understood you correctly the issue is that you're not waiting for the file to be written to the local file system, you're returning it in the response via express. Give this code a go.
Oct 30, 2019 · REST API EXPRESS JS: Can not download file in Reactjs, which is send by back-end. 1.
Apr 3, 2014 · Node Express.js - Download file from memory - 'filename must be a string' 1. Nodejs: how to set fake path ...
Oct 26, 2020 · It turns out that Axios doesn't like downloading anything besides TXT, HTML, or JSON files, so we need to download the produced file as an arraybuffer, and then use js-file-download to turn it into our desired file format. Example below: in my server. import Path from 'path'. import pdf from 'html-pdf'.
