hey @geeky01adarsh, I believe you just don't want to display it right? In that case, you could use the @react-pdf/renderers pdf method and the file-saver package to achieve this.

import React from 'react';
import { saveAs } from 'file-saver';
import { pdf } from '@react-pdf/renderer';
import YourDocument from './YourDocument';

const DownloadButton = () => {
  const downloadPdf = async () => {
    const fileName = 'test.pdf';
    const blob = await pdf(<YourDocument />).toBlob();
    saveAs(blob, fileName);
  };

  return <button onClick={downloadPdf}>Download PDFbutton>;
};

export default DownloadButton;

this will convert your pdf component into a Blob and then saves it using saveAs method from file-saver

I have found below in their site documentation

import { PDFDownloadLink, Document, Page } from '@react-pdf/renderer'

const MyDoc = () => (
  <Document>
    <Page>
      // My document data
    </Page>
  </Document>
)

const App = () => (
  <div>
    <PDFDownloadLink document={<MyDoc />} fileName="somename.pdf">
      {({ blob, url, loading, error }) => (loading ? 'Loading document...' : 'Download now!')}
    </PDFDownloadLink>
  </div>
)

Download File in React.js To download a file with React.js, we can add the download attribute to an anchor element.

For instance, we can write:

import React from "react";

export default function App() {
  return (
    <div>
      <a     href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tests/xhtml/testfiles/resources/pdf/dummy.pdf"
        download
      >
        Click to download
      </a>
    </div>
  );
}

We just add the download prop to do the download.

If we don’t want to use an anchor element, we can also use the file-saver package to download our file.

To install it, we run:

npm i file-saver

Then we can call the saveAs function from the package by writing:

import React from "react";
import { saveAs } from "file-saver";

export default function App() {
  const saveFile = () => { saveAs("https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tests/xhtml/testfiles/resources/pdf/dummy.pdf",
      "example.pdf"
    );
  };
  return (
    <div>
      <button onClick={saveFile}>download</button>
    </div>
  );
}

The first argument is the URL to download and the 2nd argument is the file name of the downloaded file.

I tried squizz's way, but the problem I'm finding is that if you click the link more than once or twice, it will revert to going back to going to the last route.

You can make a folder in src to hold your pdf's, and link to them normally, ex:

import pdf from '../files/myfile.pdf'
render () {
    <a href={pdf}>Click here for my pdf</a>
}

The only problem is, you will get a hash appended to your file, so it will come out as myfile.d2e24234.pdf or something. I think it has to do with file-loader...currently trying to figure it out.

EDIT

The answer if you don't want to use src is to delete the service worker from the create-react-app project. For some reason it affects react-router's handling of server routes.

I made a github issue here to read about it: https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/issues/3608