Meteor, generate and download file

Question

I am trying to generate a simple text file from a meteor collection. I would like the user to click on a button (let\'s say \'Convert to text file\' button) and he would be

Answer 1

If using Iron Router, add a route on the server that generates the text file and set the appropriate headers and end the response with the file generated:

Router.map(function() {
  this.route('txtFile', {
    where: 'server',
    path: '/text',
    action: function() {
      var text = "This is the awesome text.";
      var filename = 'textfile' + '.txt';

      var headers = {
        'Content-Type': 'text/plain',
        'Content-Disposition': "attachment; filename=" + filename
      };

      this.response.writeHead(200, headers);
      return this.response.end(text);
    }
  })
});

And on the client:

<a href="/text">Download text</a>