gopdf VS templ

HTML to PDF is orders of magnitude slower than more direct PDF manipulation libraries in my experience, although I haven't used this particular library ( https://github.com/signintech/gopdf ) that this project uses so I can't say for sure.

Form me the bestis https://github.com/signintech/gopdf, but you have to build programmatically every things

Now, a good example of PDF processing in Go can be found in the gopdf library. Their source is clear and uses an actual FOSS license. Example: https://github.com/signintech/gopdf

Try this as a alternative: https://github.com/signintech/gopdf

https://github.com/signintech/gopdf is not declarative. Our use-case is to generate a receipt which contains a lot of dynamic data depending on the customer. Other ways to achieve this could be to use html templates and generate html and use tools like wkhtmltopdf for conversion from html to pdf. But, are these tools good enough to handle the pdf styling?

Templ for the templating engine. Although Go already have a decent templating engine, I'm planning to use Templ because it's more powerful and flexible. I really like this library and I'm planning to use it in my future projects.

✨ In recent months, I have been developing web projects using GOTTHA stack: Go + Templ + Tailwind CSS + htmx + Alpine.js. As soon as I'm ready to talk about all the subtleties and pitfalls, I'll post it on my social networks.

Templ - HTML templating for Go

html/template - we will be using the standard HTML templating library built into Go. It is a great library and perfect for simple things like this, though if you have a more complicated project (I assume you do), I would look into using something like templ.

Cool project and if it works for you and you're happy, that's all what counts.

When I read the article, I was thinking that Go templates were used wrong. I was thinking there must be a way to define the template so you inject the content and don't need to define the start and the end of the html, but instead yield a block of other html as some kind of argument. I was trying to look it up, but couldn't find documentation on this. Maybe the author is right and I'm wrong.

And I was wondering why the author isn't using something like Templ [0], which is kind of JSX with Go as hosting language. Probably because it needs the preprocessor / compile step?

[0] https://github.com/a-h/templ