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Papa Parse		pdfmake
	Project
7	Mentions	9
12,114	Stars	11,322
-	Growth	-
5.2	Activity	7.1
23 days ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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Papa Parse

Posts with mentions or reviews of Papa Parse. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-23.

Rendering a Million Rows in React by Drawing
4 projects | dev.to | 23 Mar 2024

At the click of a button, the data is downloaded and parsed into an array of objects with the help of papa-parse library.
From TSV to CSV: How GitHub Copilot Chat Made Data Conversion a Breeze!
1 project | dev.to | 29 Aug 2023

I was super excited about this but it also made me realize that some folks may want/prefer csv files and so, I asked by bestie - GitHub Copilot Chat - to help me convert a TSV file to a CSV file in Python. Now, I'm not a Python Developer, so I wasn't sure how I would do this in Python, and while I could use an npm module like PapaParse to accomplish this, I wanted to try another language.
Snippet... PapaParse in Action
1 project | dev.to | 9 Mar 2022

Install PapaParse library from npm.
Parsing data from a file
1 project | /r/learnjavascript | 26 Dec 2021

As a non necessary steps, you might also consider using a csv parsing library. This one is apparently browser compatible. I’ve only done this on a server, so I don’t know much about parsing in browser.
How would I download papaparse into my project folder?
1 project | /r/learnjavascript | 14 Dec 2021
How can I read a csv file properly with TypeScript, that has columns with /n and /r/n contained in quotes (“… /r/n … /n … ”)
1 project | /r/typescript | 9 Jul 2021
Show HN: Csvbox.io – The import button for your web app, SaaS or API
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 12 May 2021

How does this compare with some of the available FOSS alternatives, e.g., https://github.com/mholt/PapaParse ?

pdfmake

Posts with mentions or reviews of pdfmake. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-13.

Is node the right choice for HTML to PDF conversion?
6 projects | /r/node | 13 Jan 2023

PDFmake or pdf-lib would be the way to go in my opinion.
pdfmake doesn't work after deploy nextjs app
2 projects | /r/nextjs | 22 Dec 2022
Generate a customized PDF
1 project | /r/reactjs | 20 Aug 2022

Pdfmake (http://pdfmake.org)
How do I generate pdf from an ejs template?
1 project | /r/node | 27 Apr 2022

Perhaps consider taking your serialized data directly to pdfmake and cut out the middle transformation. The playground (examples on the top tool bar row) are extremely fast and tight.
How to make Pdf in React, Next js quickly
3 projects | dev.to | 18 Sep 2021

I have some data, and I'd like to make a PDF file for that data. How can I make a PDF file as a quick way in React. In this post, I will try to do it fast as possible in React using PdfMake library.
Django and Vue web app for creating and sending pdf invoices
1 project | /r/vuejs | 15 Feb 2021

What you will be using to generate the pdf invoices ?, i use PdfMake, and i generate it all on front with Vue2.
Scale Salesforce Apps Using Microservices on Heroku
3 projects | dev.to | 29 Jan 2021

So how do we do this? First, the configuration information data gets sent from Salesforce to the Heroku microservice. Heroku is using Node.js and a few libraries/modules to achieve this—specifically, Fastify, PDFmake, and JSforce. One of the beauties of Heroku is the ability to combine all of these libraries to build powerful applications for a variety of use cases. Now some descriptions of each library: