Let me know your thoughts on this solution to creating server-side pdf reports, and if you run into any issues, feel free to contact me. Html templating framework from the Mustache family. This allows for Partial templating (fancy talk for components) and custom and built-in helper functionality to expand on our logic.Įxample using partials and built in blocks

The tools we need to make this happen: 1. We're all set to feed our sweet, sweet data into a report. We already have the base of our project up and running Node/Express, and some type of ORM and DB solutions.

Generating a report can take a while depending on file size.

Puppeteer itself adds extra build time and size to your deployments. 3 days ago release-please puppeteer-v20.2.0 671fa54 Compare puppeteer: v20.2.0 20.2.0 () Bug Fixes downloadPath should be used by the install script ( 10163) ( 4398f66) Dependencies The following workspace dependencies were updated dependencies puppeteer-core bumped from 20.1.2 to 20.2.

We won't be able to use dev tools to debug irregularities once the PDF is compiled and rendered.

We won't have access to css media props other than 'screen.' (no 'page-break-after' or the print media type).

Pages will manually need to be constrained.

The challenges of creating these PDF reports:īecause we’re using a template framework to access standard web technologies along with puppeteer to manage the pdf, we'll need to think about these things during development: puppeteerrc.cjs (or example of a PDF page generated using this method. Puppeteer uses several defaults that can be customized through configurationįor example, to change the default cache directory Puppeteer uses to installīrowsers, you can add a. Include $HOME/.cache into the project's deployment.įor a version of Puppeteer without the browser installation, see Your project folder (see an example below) because not all hosting providers Heroku, you might need to reconfigure the location of the cache to be within If you deploy a project using Puppeteer to a hosting provider, such as Render or The browser is downloaded to the $HOME/.cache/puppeteer folderīy default (starting with Puppeteer v19.0.0). When you install Puppeteer, it automatically downloads a recent version ofĬhrome for Testing (~170MB macOS, ~282MB Linux, ~280MB Windows) that is guaranteed to

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