Download from Laravel storage without loading whole file in memory

Question

I am using Laravel Storage and I want to serve users some (larger than memory limit) files. My code was inspired from a post in SO and it goes like this:

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Answer 1

2020 Laravel 7 there is a better way:

return response()->download($pathToFile);

From Laravel docs: "The download method may be used to generate a response that forces the user's browser to download the file at the given path. The download method accepts a file name as the second argument to the method, which will determine the file name that is seen by the user downloading the file. Finally, you may pass an array of HTTP headers as the third argument to the method:

return response()->download($pathToFile);

return response()->download($pathToFile, $name, $headers);

return response()->download($pathToFile)->deleteFileAfterSend();

We also have streamed downloads which may suit more: Laravel docs