How to Create PDFs With Node JS and React
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ม.ค. 2019
- In this video you will learn how to generate dynamic PDFs using Node JS and React. PDFs are going to be generated from an HTML file. Anything that you can write in HTML and CSS can be converted to a dynamic PDF.
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Thank. You for the video. Is a nice code to implement in many applications
Glad you find value in it, many more tutorials are coming soon!
JavaScript Mastery awesome!! Good job
I've been looking for a simple solution like this for months, thanks for the tutorial.
Glad you finally stumbled upon my video! 😀
I had to watch so many videos until I found you :) Thank you so much for the great video. This is perfect for all sorts of web applications!
Thank you so much!
Just a tip for anyone who is interested in just making a Post request and download the pdf WITHOUT creating it in the local computer (you will need to use Fetch instead of Axios)
//Node
server.post("/create-pdf", (req, res) => {
pdf.create(pdfTemplate()).toBuffer(function (err, buffer) {
if (err) return res.send(err);
res.type("pdf");
res.end(buffer, "binary");
});
});
//React
createAndDownloadPdf = () => {
fetch("/create-pdf", {
method: "POST",
body: JSON.stringify(this.props),
}).then((res) => {
res.arrayBuffer().then((res) => {
var blob = new Blob([res], { type: "application/pdf" });
saveAs(blob, "newPdf");
});
});
}
this method doesn't work,it shows pdf file can not open
it just solved the error I was having from html-pdf
but now ALL PDF ARE CORRUPTED so thanks but no thanks
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Awesome. Thank you for such a great tutorial!
Thank you for the video, excelent content. Cheers from Norway!
Thanks man, since I am just starting, it really means a lot! Stay tuned for more! :)
Thank you so much, you have no idea how big of a problem you have solved for me. God bless you!! Thanks alot for making this tutorial!!
Cheers from Sri Lanka! Found the sollution with easy steps to use in my applications 🙂
😉
Thanks a lot dude ... Your video is really awesome and also had nice explanation !
Thanks a lot!! Your code helped me a lot!!
Thank you for the tutorial!
Very nice project, and very useful, thanks man
Glad you like it!
Top video !
Thanks a lot !
Advice : +zoom on IDE
Thanks man, I will definitely zoom it for the next vid!
Thanks for great tutorial
Thank you. Cool Tutorial :)
Since I'm just starting out, I extremely appreciate any feedback, thanks! 😊
very well explained.
Amazing video man!!
All of your videos are great buddy, keep up the good work. Please increase the font size of the VS code in future videos so that the code is clearly visible on smaller screens too. 😁😃
Thanks, I'm just starting out. Planning to improve the audio quality and much more.
Thanks for the recommendation, I will definitely increase font size! 😀
Great video, I subscribed
Thanks for knowledges.
Thank you for watching!
great vid. Thanks!
Thanks, appreciate it!
You are awesome!!! Thanks!!!
Thank you so much !!!
Thanks. Very usefull
Thanks! Glad you like it.
Thanks man! But I have some problems. Why aren't some css properties like flex supported?
FileSaver is built for saving client side generated content, but if the content is coming from a server then there is different ways to achieve the goal of saving the file downloaded from the cloud.
really good video!
Thanks!
this is amazing video , do you have any suggestions about how to edit the number of products dynamically ?
The list of products should be in an array, use the map function and return the div in string format
Hi really nice video . Perfectly solves my problem . Just a question how to do multiple page pdf in it ? whatever HTML I am writing its generating single page PDF only. And if header and footer can be added for each page constant will be awesome
The timing of this tutorial is perfect. i was wondering how would you access the data in the pdf file if the dynamic data were saved in a database first ( nedb ) for example ?
did this work for you ? even when i downloaded the files from github it still isn't working... did you had any problems ?
Thank you
goodjob dude
Thanks!
Thank you,
Hi, thanks for this video. Im using Laravel with react, does this work in that framework?
Hii .. Thank you very much for this video its very very helpful .. but I just want to ask how can i send an array and export it and display it on the table (server html code) ?? pleaase i really need your help
how to actually use this with functional component in react like hooks. Do I need to like specify const [name, setName]=useState(' ')??
Thank you for this tutorial mate🙌.
One doubt, what if we want to include CSS file externally i.e using ?
Will this still work or not?
Thanks for the feedback!
Feel free to try it and let me know! 😁
Is this working?
External css?
to run nodemon, type one of these in the terminal:
npm install -g nodemon
OR
yarn global add nodemon
Hi there how would get dynamic data to appear in the pdf document, more specifically if I have a list that I am sending to the pdf renderer, how can I display the list items dynamically, can I use a for loop or map function in my document template?
I have the same issue...Did you find any solutions?
Thanks for very helpful video. Can we use similar HTML templates to print any reports from ReactJS application. If so, can you make a video that shows how we store these templates in backend and then, based on the user choice, get a template into ReactJS application using a REST API and use it in printing a report. Thanks
Thank you for this ^_^ !!!
Thank you for watching! :)
Can you demonstrate printing react component
Please zoom in your screen..its is difficult to watch on mobiles...otherwise video is great and helps me a lot..thank you
Hi, nice work. Works for react-native too?
Awesome!
Its a good video. is it possible to get the data from the database and print a pdf file once a button is click.... Please help me this. Thanks
Great video, and very simple too.
Just one problem, when I change state, and try to download the pdf, we still get the old data, and we need to download again to get the data we want.
Little change in the post request fixes the problem :)
app.post('/create-pdf', (req, res) => {
pdf.create(pdfTemplate(req.body), {}).toFile('result.pdf', (err, response) => {
if(err) res.send(Promise.reject())
else {
if(response) res.send(Promise.resolve())
}
})
})
Hi, I am able to create the entire pdf , (display grid and flex-box not working) just not getting the css styling from tag.. Please help!
Pls make a video on parsing pdf with streams buffers and chunks
can you create a dropdown in html and save it as pdf with dropdown format included in the pdf. meaning when it save as pdf the dropdown still option on the pdf. i want to create a form that save from html to pdf with the bottom option have a dropdown for the manager to finish fill out
Looks like this is based on phantom js . People say its deprecated and no more in future. So is this html-pdf good one to go with for future?
Please also explain commands for Windows users.
Awesome. Like the other comments.. I've been searching for a pdf generator tutorial for a while now. Also, how is it possible to create a pre-designed PDF and then just have your input fields populate it to create your pdf forms? So it's not generating the html, only the data entered? Many thanks.
Ps: I know how to design a pdf in indesign and acrobat and to label the input fields. The question is about just the input data populating from a web form to a pre-designed uploaded pdf. Thanks.
This article might help - stackoverflow.com/questions/1757397/how-can-i-merge-data-into-an-xdp-file-and-return-a-pdf-via-net
@@javascriptmastery Thanks I'll take a look
I have a HTML file and I want to convert it to pdf. I followed the video but my program doesnt work correctly . When I run HTML code separately it working very well but when I convert it to pdf it is crushing . Flexbox isnt work correctly . How can I fix that ?
Is it possible to generate PDF from an object array as well ?? If so, how ? Thanks
thanks for the Great tutorial!
i need some help since i have a blank page downloaded
Is the code exactly the same as in the video? You can also check the Medium article in description and then compare it.
@@javascriptmastery yes the code is the same in the video! the problem that i don't get any error, i think it's something with the create or toFile method...
@@mannaimounir1358 contact me on Instagram @javascriptmastery so we can try to resolve the issue :)
Great video. Can anyone tell how to apply your choice of Logo as image and use it in real life Project? Thanks
Did you solve this problem? I want to know because I have the same :/
@@kamildziech2021 Have you tried saving the image in your React project folder and importing it in whatever component you want to use it in?
How to loop through an array inside the html template ?
if i'm using fetch how can i get the res.data cause i tried with res.body , res.json() it did work , someone can help me please ??
Can we use inside the template string? will it work
ThankU
I'm just getting the error "__dirname is not defined" in my server console. The receipt is generated. Any solutions?
Can you explain where you put "_dirname"? Thank you!
Awesome video +++++++++++++ 😃
How would you do this if you wanted a multi-page pdfs? How do you specify page breaks?
He can’t answer this question, it’s just a simple hello world code he is showing.
Nice video! can I create a template using TailwindCss?
Hey! I have done this and I am getting Cannot Get / error when I run my server. Can anyone please please help me with that?
how do i store the generated pdf to my phone (I'm developing this in react native)
which theme do you use?
If you are experiencing this error:
AssertionError:
html-pdf: Failed to load PhantomJS module. You have to set the path to the PhantomJS binary using 'options.phantomPath'
Module 'html-pdf' needs a dependency called phantom-js. We should install prebuilt-phantomjs module on the server side via terminal
cd..
cd server
npm install phantomjs-prebuilt@2.1.13
Is it just me or did he increased the speed of whatever he was saying at 8:06? I didn't understand anything. I literally had to check the speed of the video
thanks!!!!!!! How to display images using node.js server??? INTO INDEX.JS
Hi! Thanks! Does it support Russian or Chinese languages?
.then().then() was calling api's two time in my case so it was not working
So you can simply use async and await
how to delete the generated file in backend after download
great tutorial , but the thing is . I dont have the Render() function generated
What exactly are you referring to? What minute in the video?
@@javascriptmastery When i do generate a react projet , i do no have the " class App extends component " , i just have function App { } . And the render function under it , i dont have it . I think its a new version of react and i m having issues applying your tutorial in it . would it be cool if you help me out with it ? ' discord '
In that case, simply copy the render code I have. You should be good to go then.
How to create template with Array of Objects? please reply...
Why is flexbox not working in the template?
backend guys, how do you guys work with in templates (HTML & CSS) in real apps? For e.g I want to create invoice pdf using a template, so is there a way to generate templates with our desired look and feel from somewhere or we have to write HTML and CSS from scratch ourself?
Good video, but it is so hard to see your screen and the code compared to alot of coding videos I watch
Don't worry, I will definitely bump up the font size for the next video! :)
Awesome video! Does this store the newly generated PDF in the backend? What I want to accomplish is that the user clicks a link and a PDF is automatically generated. All the needed data is already in the frontend. Thanks!
Yes! The pdf gets stored in the server! :)
JavaScript Mastery in a database? Where exactly?
@@stefanomartell8413 check 25:20 of the video, under the server directory. There is results.pdf.
JavaScript Mastery Right I see, one doubt I have about that is that say I have 200 users in my app. Whenever one of them clicks on the pdf button generation it will create a mew file and store it in my db? Or results.pdf is only a temporary file that is destroyed righr after the backend sends it to the frontend, and its overwriten by the next generated file? Thanks a lot man!
@@stefanomartell8413 whenever user creates a new file, the previous one will be overwritten because it has the same name (in this case) if you want to avoid that, you may want to give every result a new id as a name. There are a lot of libraries that do that, but you could also create a timestamp in milliseconds as a name.
That way, a lot of pdfs will be generated, every one under the different name.
Hope I answered your question!
html-pdf is now deprecated.
sir i face "Internal server error 500" please suggest any solution
wonder if i can get some help, I'm getting an error where my browser is unable to open/read pdf file. Any thoughts?
Did you manage to resolve the issue?
@@javascriptmastery
Negative. Got the server to send the file over to the client. However there was a error with opening the .pdf file with preview and chrome did not open PDF view either.
The Error message read about a a damage or altered file. I'm wondering if it is to do with my res.sendfile() statement.
@@redskater42 did you fix this ? make sure you have const pdfBlob = new Blob([res.data] , i switch to try something [res.data] to [res.body] and it gave me broken pdfs, but i have another problems the input aren't going into the pdf and I don't know why.
Wouldn't it be a better solution to convert react to pdf directly on frontend
I agree with you, it’s just he only knows this method from a blog on the internet, it’s a kind of copycat
I seem to have an error in res.sendFile() in backend, or res.data in frontend.
Make sure that you have correctly entered file path in backend. I would preffer smth like this: var file = path.join(__dirname, "result.pdf"); res.sendFile(file);
Also when taking the response in the frontend use .then after axios.get
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@@javascriptmastery not on youtube :(
Pls kindly help me how can use daynamic value in mongobd use pdf
I try this:
pdf.create(html, { format: 'Letter' }).toFile('result.pdf', (err) => {
if (err) return res.status(500).send(err)
return res.status(200).send("ok")
})
but, it works only in my localhost environment.
When I hosted my application on Azure, this function never returns anything! And azure gives me this error message: "The page cannot be displayed because an internal server error has occurred.". It does not execute the line: " if (err) return res.status(500).send(err)"
I'm using, node 14.16.0, and my entire application works fine on Azure, only the html-pdf not works on it :(
Does anyone have any ideas?
I'm downloading a pdf but when opening the file it ways it's corrupt :(
Can you update this tutorial? Thank you.
Hi, I can't upload any image to my html template. Only borders and inscription from alt=" " are visible in pdf. Do you know how to solve this problem?
Hey. Imagens can be displayed by setting .
The trick is on "file:///" with 3 slashes. Hope this works.
@@danieldebellis5039 yes, thanks
@@danieldebellis5039 Hey can you help me with this im trying to configure it but its not working
Of course! What’s going wrong?? Did you tried to put the 3 slashes after “file”? Are you working on mac, linux or windows?
@@danieldebellis5039 ya so i tried file:/// and it worked for my local path , so i put C: etc, but i cant seem to figure it out for my directory so other people can use it as well, im using a directory pretty similar as this videos creator and i have an image folder inside the server folder so right beside documents which has index.js which has the html file.
I have created my template but flex are not working
Anyone not comfortable with class components. This code may work:
import React, { useState } from 'react';
import axios from 'axios';
import { saveAs } from 'file-saver';
import './App.css';
const App = () => {
const [state, setState] = useState({
name: '',
receiptId: 0,
price1: 0,
price2: 0,
});
const handleChange = ({ target: { value, name } }) =>
setState((prevState) => ({ ...prevState, [name]: value }));
const createAndDownloadPdf = () => {
axios.post('/create-pdf', state)
.then(() => axios.get('fetch-pdf', { responseType: 'blob' }))
.then((res) => {
const pdfBlob = new Blob([res.data], { type: 'application/pdf' });
saveAs(pdfBlob, 'newPdf.pdf');
});
};
return (
Download PDF
);
};
export default App;
Can We Create a pdf in portrait mode
how can I create pdf from React component ?
Hey i know you get a lot comments but i want to ask if its possible to download the pdf in landscape
Sure, research the package we used in the video
How would we get this on a hosted server to use in a seperate app
You could use a service like heroku to host the server side, and github pages to serve the client side. Hope it helped. Cheers!
Thanks that helped im doing a project in school and this saved me
@@javascriptmastery hi :)... awesome video, thanks a lot :D
and, it can be hosted on firebase hosting? boths? thakns in advace :)
@@walfreaguilar8276 Sure, there shouldn't be any issues! :)
@@javascriptmastery excellent :D
It's awesome project but lack explanation line by line for beginners, also i get 404 error on console when trying to generate the PDF, if i can send you the code link for check would be really appreciated
How to save to database help me please