nodejs-pdf-report

Nodejs export pdf report from base html templates!

Install

npm install --save nodejs-pdf-report

Supports

• Base html template with EJS engine.
• Embeded Chart.js v2.9.3.
• Server side without browser.

Examples

• Import from package

   import { HtmlReport, ReportOptions } from "nodejs-pdf-report";

• Define configures

const reportOptions: ReportOptions = {
  title: "Test report with chartjs",
  useChartJs: true,
  pdfOptions: {
    margin: {
      top: "100px",
      bottom: "200px",
      right: "30px",
      left: "30px",
    },
  },
  template: "template.ejs",
  headerTemplate: "header-template.ejs",
  footerTemplate: "footer-template.ejs",
  styles: [
      "styles.css"
  ],
  scripts: [
    "utils.js",
    "index.js",
  ],
  data: {
    users: [
        {
            name: "Luong Phung",
        },
        {
            name: "Jasmine",
        },
    ],
    title: "Test report with chartjs",
    author: "Luong Phung",
    time: "2020",
  },
};

• Create pdf file as buffer

  const htmlReport = new HtmlReport();
  const reportPdf = await htmlReport.createPdf(reportOptions);
  const savePath = path.resolve("./chartjs_report.pdf");
  fs.writeFileSync(savePath, reportPdf, "binary");

• Check you report file "chartjs_report.pdf"

Screen shots

API references

PdfOptions

Name	type	default	Description
scale	number	1	Scale of the webpage rendering
printBackground	boolean	false	Print background graphics.
landscape	boolean	false	Paper orientation
format	string	"A4"	Page format as : "Letter" "A0" ... "A4" ...
margin	{top, bottom, left, right}	{0, 0, 0, 0}	Page margin as number of pixels

ReportOptions

Name	type	default	Description
title	string	null	Pdf report title
useChartJs	boolean	false	Use chartjs as default
pdfOptions	PdfOptions	null	any
template	string	null	Template path
footerTemplate	string	null	Footer template path
headerTemplate	string	null	Header template path
styles	string[]	[]	Style paths
scripts	string[]	[]	Scripts paths
data	object	{}	Report data

License

nodejs-pdf-report is released under the MIT license.