PDF Document Display and File Downloads with Angular, AngularJS, and Web API

The article and the sample application provide consolidated and practical resolutions on the online displaying and downloading server-sourced PDF data documents, particularly with latest technologies of Angular and Web API RESTful data services (both ASP.NET 5 and ASP.NET Core 3.1). The browser compatibility issues and supported features for processing and displaying byte array data are also discussed in details. The approaches described in the article can also be extended to process similar items with different types, such as displaying document content, or downloading files, of the CSV text, spreadsheets, and images.