PDFKit
A JavaScript PDF generation library for Node and the browser (by foliojs)
Papa Parse
Fast and powerful CSV (delimited text) parser that gracefully handles large files and malformed input (by mholt)
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| PDFKit | Papa Parse | |
|---|---|---|
| 29 | 7 | |
| 9,493 | 12,114 | |
| 1.1% | - | |
| 7.1 | 5.2 | |
| 18 days ago | 23 days ago | |
| JavaScript | JavaScript | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
PDFKit
Posts with mentions or reviews of PDFKit.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-25.
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Best HTML to PDF libraries for Node.js
PDFkit is one of the oldest and most well-established PDF libraries in the JavaScript ecosystem; it is still well-maintained, and regularly updated. This library is a popular option for creating and manipulating PDF documents in a server-side environment, typically using Node.js. It allows you to programmatically generate PDF files by defining each page's content, layout, and formatting.
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The 5 Node.js PDF Libraries Every Developer Must Know
pdfkit is a JavaScript PDF lib that allows web developers to create PDF documents programmatically. It provides a simple and intuitive API for generating basic PDFs.
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Feature Request: Download Images into Compiled PDF Option
Resource could be of use: pdfkit, github link.
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🏆 Contest - Kintone Customization Contest 2023
Build a PDF generator using Kintone's REST API and a PDF library like PDFKit or PDFMake
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Best solution for generating pdf documents from templates
https://pdfkit.org/ is pretty powerful, surprised to see no one has mentioned this so far.
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Best approach to generate PDF from dynamic data?
If this is a concern for you, I suggest you look at projects like pdfkit, they allow you to compose the content of the pdf directly, without using another format (html) has an intermediate layer.
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react-pdf
I use pdfkit at work
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What to learn to build this - an interactive tool
Then write a script to export the drag drop. Maybe use a browser function to save the page as a PDF. Or a NPM library using something like https://www.npmjs.com/package/pdfkit
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Building a small ad/website.
Maybe pdfkit
- serving pdf from express backend to client
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.
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Rendering a Million Rows in React by Drawing
At the click of a button, the data is downloaded and parsed into an array of objects with the help of papa-parse library.
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From TSV to CSV: How GitHub Copilot Chat Made Data Conversion a Breeze!
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.
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Snippet... PapaParse in Action
Install PapaParse library from npm.
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Parsing data from a file
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?
- How can I read a csv file properly with TypeScript, that has columns with /n and /r/n contained in quotes (“… /r/n … /n … ”)
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Show HN: Csvbox.io – The import button for your web app, SaaS or API
How does this compare with some of the available FOSS alternatives, e.g., https://github.com/mholt/PapaParse ?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing PDFKit and Papa Parse you can also consider the following projects:
jsPDF - Client-side JavaScript PDF generation for everyone.
pdfmake - Client/server side PDF printing in pure JavaScript
PDF.js - PDF Reader in JavaScript
pdf-lib - Create and modify PDF documents in any JavaScript environment
diff2html - Pretty diff to html javascript library (diff2html)
gotenberg - A developer-friendly API for converting numerous document formats into PDF files, and more!
jBinary - High-level API for working with binary data.
node-android - Run Node.js on Android by rewrite Node.js in Java
indoynab - An online YNAB converter for your Indonesian bank statements. No install, no sign-up. Currently covering: BCA, BNI, BSI, Jenius.