Downloading files is an essential aspect of surfing the internet. Tons of files are downloaded from the internet every day, from binary files (such as applications, images, videos, and audio) to plain text files.

If you have a web developer and you want to add this feature to your application, here is how you can do it.

We will inspect 3 different approaches:

• basic mode using only HTML elements;
• using JavaScript with Fetch API and HTML elements;
• using XMLHttpRequest and HTML elements, but in a more complex scenario in which we implement a system to measure progress;

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