This project is part of the @thi.ng/umbrella monorepo.
Local asset download for web apps, with automatic MIME type detection.
STABLE - used in production
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- @thi.ng/mime - 650+ file extension to MIME type mappings, based on mime-db
yarn add @thi.ng/dl-assetES module import:
<script type="module" src="https://cdn.skypack.dev/@thi.ng/dl-asset"></script>For Node.js REPL:
# with flag only for < v16
node --experimental-repl-await
> const dlAsset = await import("@thi.ng/dl-asset");
Package sizes (gzipped, pre-treeshake): ESM: 516 bytes
Several demos in this repo's /examples directory are using this package.
A selection:
| Screenshot | Description | Live demo | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
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Probabilistic color theme generator | Demo | Source |
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Color palette generation via dominant color extraction from uploaded images | Demo | Source |
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Various hdom-canvas shape drawing examples & SVG conversion / export | Demo | Source |
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Worker based, interactive Mandelbrot visualization | Demo | Source |
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Parser grammar livecoding editor/playground & codegen | Demo | Source |
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Animated Voronoi diagram, cubic splines & SVG download | Demo | Source |
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Interactive grid generator, SVG generation & export, undo/redo support | Demo | Source |
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1D Wolfram automata with OBJ point cloud export | Demo | Source |
import { download } from "@thi.ng/dl-asset";
const src = "Hellö wörld!";
// mime type derived from file extension (.txt)
download("hello.txt", src, {
utf8: true,
expire: 1000
});
// with explicit MIME type string
download("hello.txt", src, {
mime: "text/plain",
utf8: true,
expire: 1000
});...or using MIME type preset from @thi.ng/mime.
import { preferredType } from "@thi.ng/mime";
downloadWithMime("hello.txt", src, {
// here mandatory to provide MIME type
mime: preferredType("txt"), // text/plain
utf8: true,
expire: 1000
});Since v2.1.0, HTML canvas downloads can be simplified using
downloadCanvas():
import { downloadCanvas } from "@thi.ng/dl-asset";
// download as PNG (default)
downloadCanvas(canvas, "file-name-without-ext");
// download as JPG or WebP with given quality
downloadCanvas(canvas, "file-name-without-ext", "jpeg", 0.9);
downloadCanvas(canvas, "file-name-without-ext", "webp", 0.9);Karsten Schmidt
If this project contributes to an academic publication, please cite it as:
@misc{thing-dl-asset,
title = "@thi.ng/dl-asset",
author = "Karsten Schmidt",
note = "https://thi.ng/dl-asset",
year = 2020
}© 2020 - 2021 Karsten Schmidt // Apache Software License 2.0