Kevin Powell - Community•2y ago

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Procedure to send an image (download) via a node API, do I create read stream and pipe it to the front and if yes what gets sent from that binary, base64 string, array buffers?

4 Replies

ErickO•2y ago

are you using express? they got a helper for that

ErickO•2y ago

https://expressjs.com/en/5x/api.html#res.download

ErickO•2y ago

and in the front-end you do this annoying thing

const downloadBtn = document.getElementById("download-btn");
downloadBtn.addEventListener("click", async () => {
  const image = await fetch("http://api.poop.com/download-image");
  const imageBlog = await image.blob();
  const imageURL = URL.createObjectURL(imageBlog);
  const link = document.createElement("a");
  link.href = imageURL;
  link.download = "someimage";
  document.body.appendChild(link);
  link.click();
  document.body.removeChild(link);

const downloadBtn = document.getElementById("download-btn");
downloadBtn.addEventListener("click", async () => {
  const image = await fetch("http://api.poop.com/download-image");
  const imageBlog = await image.blob();
  const imageURL = URL.createObjectURL(imageBlog);
  const link = document.createElement("a");
  link.href = imageURL;
  link.download = "someimage";
  document.body.appendChild(link);
  link.click();
  document.body.removeChild(link);

ElectronicOP•2y ago

Thanks

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