How to prevent react rerender when generating a file?

Question

I'm making a request to an API that creates a PDF file on my public folder. After getting response react automatically re-renders the page and ignores everything else to do.

I need to redirect to another page with the name of the generated PDF but re-renders the same page.

API.post('some_url', formData) //this creates a pdf file on public folder
        .then(res => {
          //Ignores redirection
          this.props.history('other_page', res.pdf_name)
        })

I found that the problem was creating the pdf file by trial and error, and when pasting manually a file in the public folder it automatically re-renders the page where i'm currently.

How can i prevent this behavior?

Are you using some kind of dev server that automatically re-renders on file changes. ?? if so you need to skip watch the folder you are creating the pdf — Panther
– Panther, Commented May 9, 2020 at 5:11

Mooze · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-09 08:44:13Z

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As suggested by Panther it was my dev server. I used create-react-app for the project, so looking up on how to disable hotreload i stumble onto this answer and it worked.

Thanks for the heads up.

answered May 9, 2020 at 8:44

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