During my internship, I was given a task to figure out how we could dynamically generate PDFs in the backend. It should be a lot simpler than it is. Hence this blog.

Roberto Umbelino

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This post describes the author's experience of dynamically generating PDFs using NodeJs and NestJs. Initially struggling with ineffective libraries, the author eventually chose jsPDF and its extension jspdf-autotable for creating features like graphs, charts, tables, images, table of contents, and automatic page numbers. The article includes detailed code snippets for setting up and using these libraries in a NestJs service, including handling installation issues for the canvas library on M-series Apple chips and rendering charts as images with the help of puppeteer.

Generate PDFs dynamically in NodeJs/NestJs

Great! I just needed that for my startup (I’ll not include the name unless someone is interested), but I also tried lots of libs. 👏🏻

Awesome, but it doesn’t support Bengali font. How can I resolve this?

Thanks for sharing, thats quite helpful, bookmarked it already.