how to download file in react js

Question

I receive file url as response from api. when user clicks on download button, the file should be downloaded without opening file preview in a new tab. How to achieve this in

Answer 1

This is how I did it in React:

import MyPDF from '../path/to/file.pdf';
 Download Here 

It's important to override the default file name with download="name_of_file_you_want.pdf" or else the file will get a hash number attached to it when you download.