5 posts tagged with "puppeteer"

Building robust web applications often requires generating high-quality PDF documents from HTML content for invoices, reports, certificates, and business documentation. Puppeteer-Ruby provides a powerful solution for Ruby on Rails PDF generation, offering a pure Ruby port of Google's Puppeteer API with Chrome's advanced rendering engine. This comprehensive guide demonstrates how to implement seamless HTML to PDF conversion using Puppeteer-Ruby's Ruby API interface, delivering pixel-perfect results with full support for modern CSS and JavaScript.

Modern web applications frequently need to generate professional PDF documents for invoices, reports, contracts, and other business materials. Grover emerges as a cutting-edge solution for Ruby on Rails PDF generation, leveraging Google Chrome's headless browser to deliver pixel-perfect rendering with full support for modern CSS features. This comprehensive tutorial demonstrates how to implement robust HTML to PDF conversion using Grover's powerful Chrome-based engine integrated seamlessly with Rails' ERB templating system.

As we progress through 2025, the Node.js ecosystem continues to offer robust solutions for PDF generation. This article explores the most popular and powerful libraries available today, helping you make an informed decision for your next project. We provide detailed download statistics and simple code examples to give you insights into their real-world usage.

Generating invoice PDFs is a common requirement for web applications – whether for e-commerce, SaaS billing, or financial reporting. Puppeteer, a powerful headless browser automation tool for Node.js, makes it easy to convert HTML into high-quality PDFs. In this guide, we’ll walk you through setting up Puppeteer, designing an invoice with HTML and CSS, and generating a professional PDF.

Generating PDFs has become a crucial feature for many modern web applications, from creating invoices to producing complex data-driven reports. Over the years, various HTML to PDF tools have emerged, each with its own approach and capabilities. In this post, we’ll take a brief look at the evolution of PDF generation solutions – from wkhtmltopdf and PrinceXML (via DocRaptor) to Puppeteer and Playwright – and then walk through a short tutorial on using Playwright (Node.js) to generate a sample PDF in 2025.