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Generate a PDF with JavaScript
Comparison of different tools to get your job done.
Introduction
E-commerce has become more popular over the past two years and has become an essential source of income for many companies. One of the most popular needs is the ability to print online transcripts or invoices through your web application, which contains dynamic data based on user activity. Another use case is the need to print website content, whether you have an educational website or a blog. Sometimes the user needs to keep a hard copy of your content, highlighting the need to convert the HTML pages into PDF format.
As your data is dynamic in most cases, as the invoice example we introduced earlier, the most suitable way to handle the data and the conversion is to use JavaScript as it provides you with the ability to deal with the data dynamically.
With this need in mind, This article will explore different JavaScript libraries for converting HTML to PDF online and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each library to help you choose the suitable tool for your application.
This article is part of a series of articles on how to generate PDFs using different programming languages:
