Download Data as a File with Alpine.js

As my readers know, I’ve been updating some of my earlier Vue.js examples to demonstrate how they would work with Alpine.js. Normally I post these "conversions" when I see one of the Vue posts pop up in my stats. Today I noticed this entry was "trending" – Vue Quick Shot – Downloading Data as a File. I thought it would be a great candidate for showing an Alpine version. Let’s take a look.
While I won’t repeat everything from the previous post, I’ll quickly cover how it worked. First, it makes use of the download attribute of the anchor tag. This will take a normal link operation and instead ask the browser to download the resource at the... more →
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