arachnys / athenapdf

Drop-in replacement for wkhtmltopdf built on Go, Electron and Docker
MIT License
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is this lib still being maintained? #221

Open kaiomagalhaes opened 2 years ago

kaiomagalhaes commented 2 years ago

At my company, we made extensive use of this lib and we would like to know if it is still being maintained to know if we should continue using it or creating a fork

MrSaints commented 1 year ago

(I recognise this is a bit of a late reply, but figured others might be looking for some answers, so leaving this here for others)

I'm one of the original maintainers of this project, and it is most definitely unmaintained. Sorry for the late reply as I had stopped getting notifications.

I wouldn't recommend using this because its dependencies are really outdated, and it is relying on Electron for the actual generation compared to more modern generators which are now relying on truly headless Chromium (more performant, and more secure).

As alternatives / successors, I would recommend:

cedws commented 1 year ago

@MrSaints Hey, thanks for the reply. Would you consider archiving the repo or adding a notice to the README? Happy to send a PR for the latter.