Server side route to download file - meteor

Question

I've got a server side route I'm using to download a file. This is called from a client side button click and everything is working fine. However, once the button has been clicked once it will not work again until another route is loaded and you go back. How can I code it so that the button can be clicked multiple times and the server side route be fired each time?
My button code looks like this...
'click #view_document_download': function (event, tmpl) {
Router.go('/download_document/' + this._id);
}
And my server side route looks like this...
Router.route('/download_document/:_id', function () {
//Get the file record to download
var file = files.findOne({_id: this.params._id});
//Function to take a cfs file and return a base64 string
var getBase64Data = function(file2, callback) {
var readStream = file2.createReadStream();
var buffer = [];
readStream.on('data', function(chunk) {
buffer.push(chunk);
});
readStream.on('error', function(err) {
callback(err, null);
});
readStream.on('end', function() {
callback(null, buffer.concat()[0].toString('base64'));
});
};
//Wrap it to make it sync
var getBase64DataSync = Meteor.wrapAsync(getBase64Data);
//Get the base64 string
var base64str = getBase64DataSync(file);
//Get the buffer from the string
var buffer = new Buffer(base64str, 'base64');
//Create the headers
var headers = {
'Content-type': file.original.type,
'Content-Disposition': 'attachment; filename=' + file.original.name
};
this.response.writeHead(200, headers);
this.response.end(buffer, 'binary');
}, { where: 'server' });

Answer 1

use a element instead of js 'click' event
page html
page js in server
Router.route("/download_document/:fileId", function(){
var file = files.findOne({_id: this.params.fileId});
var contentFile = //file text
let headers = {
'Content-Type': 'text/plain',
'Content-Disposition': "attachment; filename=file.txt"
};
this.response.writeHead(200, headers);
this.response.end(contentFile);
},
{where: "server", name: "download"}
);

Answer 2

Maybe you should just return an Object from your Server via a method and form it to a file on the client side? if possible..
To create a file on the client side is really simple, and you don't have to deal with Routers at this point.
function outputFile(filename, data) {
var blob = new Blob([data], {type: 'text/plain'}); // !note file type..
if(window.navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob) {
window.navigator.msSaveBlob(blob, filename);
}
else{
var elem = window.document.createElement('a');
elem.href = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob);
elem.download = filename;
document.body.appendChild(elem)
elem.click();
document.body.removeChild(elem);
}
}
function getContentAndOutputFile() {
var content = document.getElementById('content').value;
outputFile('file.txt', content);
}
<input id="content" value="test content"/>
<button onClick="getContentAndOutputFile()">Create File</button>