Generating PDF documents with React js

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Generating PDF documents with React js

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Generating PDF documents with React js

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Business applications often need to produce ready to print documents to communicate transaction information. For example, You may send a customer a printable receipt after they buy your products. PDF documents are supported by many platforms and retain their structure when printed, this makes them one of the best way to present business documents.

In this tutorial we'll generate a PDF invoice, on both the client and server using the React PDF library. We'll also discuss the library limitations and how to work around them.

Key takeaways

• Understand CSS Flexbox and absolute positioning
• React pure components
• Separating business logic from view logic

Article quality

• This week I did a task that required generation of PDF documents. The guides that I found on the internet were either outdated (didn't work with React 18) or covered basic documents. Due to the limitations of the library, I needed to adapt to a certain mental models in order to deliver the document the way I envisioned them.

References

• https://react-pdf.org
• https://css-tricks.com/understanding-flex-grow-flex-shrink-and-flex-basis/

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On it. Thank you

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