How to use laravel's Storage::download response? about inertia-laravel

[reinink]

You need to make a normal, non-Inertia request to download files. All Inertia requests must return a valid Inertia response, which a file download of course isn't. So, instead of using an <inertia-link>, just use a regular <a>. 👍

[HoAnhTungPrimelabo]

but can't post a form with an <A> tag
like <Link href="/download" method="post" as="button" type="button">download</Link>

[boparaiamrit]

You can use this in onClick

fetch(route('documents.download', { id: document.id }))
    .then((res) => res.blob())
    .then((blob) => {
      const file = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob)
      window.location.assign(file)
    })

[rojtjo]

You should be able to just use a regular form. Optionally with the target set to _blank to ensure a new window/tab opens and your Inertia app will just keep running.

<form action={yourDownloadUrl} method="post" target="_blank">
    <button>Download</button>
</form>

[javdome]

You can do it with a form... but remember the csrf token.

First, send the token to the Inertia view where you are going to insert the form:

return inertia ( 'YourView', [ 'token' => csrf_token() ] );

Now, in the view, insert the csrf token in a hidden input.
For instance, in a React view:

<form action = { route ('your.named.route', your.param) } method = "post">
    <input type="hidden" name="_token" value={props.token}/>
    <button>Download</button>
</form>

[nwaweru]

gular <a>.

Did you find a way around this?

I need to send a post request to download the file.