Discussion on: React and Puppeteer: Pdf generation (pdf generation api)

[Layton Whiteley]

at the core of this article this is achieved by using puppeteer in a Nodejs app

const content = '< html content >'
const browser = await puppeteer.launch();
 const page = await browser.newPage();
    await page.setContent(content, {
      waitUntil: 'networkidle2',
    });

// alternatively: instead of setting the html content
//                       you can visit a page
//  await page.goto('https://example.com', {
//      waitUntil: 'networkidle2',
//    });

    const pdf = await page.pdf({
      format: 'a4',
      printBackground: true,
      preferCSSPageSize: true,
    });
 await browser.close();

Im not sure i understood the question fully but let me know if this answers your question.

Please note that there are many alternatives to creating pdf documents and puppeteer is only one that this article focuses on

[Renaud 🤖]

Thanks for your article, I agree and think that Puppeteer is the best way to create HTML to PDF. Unfortunately it is sometimes a little complicated to achieve on a large scale... In the end I used a micro-saas: doppio.sh

[Layton Whiteley]

Thanks for the input. I didn't know about this service. I'll check it out