I encountered an issue when I made a GET request in my React project which was supposed to return a file I could download. For the file to download properly, I had to make the response type a blob [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Blob].  But if an error occurred when the server returns

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Learn how to retain a JSON object for error handling while downloading a file from a server using Axios in JavaScript.

How to Extract an Error Object from a Blob API Response in JavaScript

Step 1: Define the Response Type in the API Call