purescript-downloadjs

A library which binds download.js function to PureScript, so you can download your data from an HTML5 browser in a type-safe way.

Installation

We import the download function as a Node library, so you should add it in your project:

npm install downloadjs

Then add this library (downloadjs) to your spago.dhall.

If it's not in a fresh package set, you'll have an extra step.

Introduction

You can simply trigger a download with the download function, providing it your payload, file name and MIME type (if you don't know what to provide, use application/octet-stream).

module Main where

import Prelude
import Web.DownloadJs (download)
import Effect.Class.Console (log)

main = do
  couldDownload <- download "hello world" "hello.txt" "text/plain"
  log $ if couldDownload 
    then "Done!"
    else "Couldn't download, because your browser is a potato."

Payload supports strings (and data URLs in it), blobs from web-file, and typed arrays from arraybuffer-types. These types are included in Downloadable type class.

Fail safety

Actually, there's none, besides of that function returns False if it couldn't trigger a download. For other cases, use exception handling.

Module documentation

Module documentation is published on Pursuit.

License

This library is MIT licensed.