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react-use-downloader
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Creates a download handler function and gives progress information
Creates a download handler function with its progress information and cancel ability.
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npm install --save react-use-downloader
import React from 'react';
import useDownloader from 'react-use-downloader';
export default function App() {
const { size, elapsed, percentage, download, cancel, error, isInProgress } =
useDownloader();
const fileUrl =
'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D1%96_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81_%D0%B2_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BC%D1%96%D0%BD%D1%8F%D1%85_%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%96%D1%88%D0%BD%D1%8C%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%86%D1%8F.jpg';
const filename = 'beautiful-carpathia.jpg';
return (
<div className="App">
<p>Download is in {isInProgress ? 'in progress' : 'stopped'}</p>
<button onClick={() => download(fileUrl, filename)}>
Click to download the file
</button>
<button onClick={() => cancel()}>Cancel the download</button>
<p>Download size in bytes {size}</p>
<label for="file">Downloading progress:</label>
<progress id="file" value={percentage} max="100" />
<p>Elapsed time in seconds {elapsed}</p>
{error && <p>possible error {JSON.stringify(error)}</p>}
</div>
);
}
useDownloader()
returns:
key | description | arguments |
---|---|---|
size | size in bytes | n/a |
elapsed | elapsed time in seconds | n/a |
percentage | percentage in string | n/a |
download | download function handler | (downloadUrl: string, filename: string, timeout?: number) |
cancel | cancel function handler | n/a |
error | error object from the request | n/a |
isInProgress | boolean denoting download status | n/a |
const { size, elapsed, percentage, download, cancel, error, isInProgress } =
useDownloader();
useDownloader(options?: UseDownloaderOptions)
also accepts fetch's RequestInit options:
const { download } = useDownloader({
mode: 'no-cors',
credentials: 'include',
headers: {
Authorization: 'Bearer TOKEN',
},
});
Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):
Eric Semeniuc 🤔 | davdi1337 💻 🐛 | Mauro Stepanoski 🤔 💻 | Sam "Betty" McKoy 🐛 | Peran Osborn 🐛 🤔 | Marcos 🐛 🤔 | 9swampy 🐛 💻 |
This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!
react-use-downloader is MIT licensed.
This hook is created using create-react-hook.
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Creates a download handler function and gives progress information
The npm package react-use-downloader receives a total of 5,952 weekly downloads. As such, react-use-downloader popularity was classified as popular.
We found that react-use-downloader demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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