John Mike
[Solved] Frontend script call backend script, do UI stuff and download the returned data as file
Hello everyone, new windmill user here. Trying to grasp how windmill works and building a small internal app at the same time.
I'm trying to wrap my head how I can have my own frontend script run a backend script, get the result, do some UI stuff based on the result and download it on the user's computer (through the normal browser's download dialog).
I see that a backend inline script "just works" without any additional action from me. But what about when I need to run that backend script from a frontend script and do something with the results (including downloading it)?
Is a Transformer the right solution? Or maybe the web Fetch API (run a fetch request from the frontend script to my windmill API, trigger the backend script and get the result).
For now, I have stored my backend script on the workspace scripts and linked the button with it. Then added a Transformer with the usual javascript code for downloading files (found in the docs and windmill ai).
Thanks!
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