Wicked Pdf
Tailwind CSS
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Wicked Pdf
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Working with PDFs in Ruby
We’ll start with the WickedPDF gem, which is powered by the wkhtmltopdf command-line library.
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Creating PDFs in a Ruby on Rails application
You have a few options when trying to create a PDF in a Rails environment. Prawn and Wicked PDF have been around for quite a while. I have been using both gems and they work fine. However, they have a few limitations that can make it difficult to handle more complex PDFs. I recently discovered Grover, which can remediate some of this inflexibility in creating PDFs.
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Generate PDF with gem wicked_pdf
# WickedPDF Global Configuration # # Use this to set up shared configuration options for your entire application. # Any of the configuration options shown here can also be applied to single # models by passing arguments to the `render :pdf` call. # # To learn more, check out the README: # # https://github.com/mileszs/wicked_pdf/blob/master/README.md WickedPdf.config ||= {} WickedPdf.config.merge!({ layout: "pdf.html.erb", orientation: "Landscape", lowquality: true, zoom: 1, dpi: 75 })
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Converting HTML to PDF using Rails
A couple of popular gems to convert HTML to PDF in Rails are PDFKit and WickedPDF. They both use a command line utility called wkhtmltopdf under the hood; which uses WebKit to render a PDF from HTML.
- Gerando PDF com a gem wicked_pdf no Rails 6
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20 months, 2K hours, 200K € lost. A story about resilience and sunk cost fallacy
Thanks for sharing - it takes a lot to share these sort of personal experiences. I've definitely been there, too.
Aside from all the good and valid comments about reducing scope and shipping an MVP, I'd like to raise another point which may be controversial (or even wrong), but still worth raising:
Would it have been different if you had used Rails? A few of the problems you mention (rich text editing, validation, and to some extend, pdf exports) are very easily solved in Rails. Take rich text editing: It's literally a couple minutes to use ActionText. Or validations / forms, there's really not much work to do. PDF exports are also not too hard via wicked_pdf [1] if you're okay with fixing some formatting quirks later on.
I've seen both worlds by writing tons of JS / React code myself, and at that time (2016-2018) those problems were almost an order of magnitude more time-costly to implement in SPAs. I remember react-router.. not great memories.
Of course, all the points reducing MVP scope still hold, yadda yadda, but.. if you could have had all those features (nearly) for free, would you be at another stage now? Who knows.
[1] https://github.com/mileszs/wicked_pdf
Tailwind CSS
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Essential Tools & Technologies for New Developers
Lastly, Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework packed with classes like flex, pt-4, text-center, and rotate-90 that can be composed to build any design, directly in your markup.
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E-commerce checkout components built with Tailwind CSS and Flowbite
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Hanami and HTMX - progress bar
Sidekiq is already configured along with assets, tailwindsCSS.
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Building an Email Assistant Application with Burr
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Tailwind CSS: A utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom designs.
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Preline UI + Gowebly CLI = ❤️
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With better CSS approaches like TailwindCSS and Vanilla Extract (which we're heavily using) it's much easier to maintain the UI and make sure it doesn't change unexpectedly. No more conflicting CSS classes, much less CSS specificity issues and much less CSS code in general.
What are some alternatives?
Pdfkit - A Ruby gem to transform HTML + CSS into PDFs using the command-line utility wkhtmltopdf
flowbite - Open-source UI component library and front-end development framework based on Tailwind CSS
Prawn - Fast, Nimble PDF Writer for Ruby
antd - An enterprise-class UI design language and React UI library
Grover - A Ruby gem to transform HTML into PDFs, PNGs or JPEGs using Google Puppeteer/Chromium
unocss - The instant on-demand atomic CSS engine.
CombinePDF - A Pure ruby library to merge PDF files, number pages and maybe more...
windicss - Next generation utility-first CSS framework.
HexaPDF - Versatile PDF creation and manipulation for Ruby
emotion - 👩🎤 CSS-in-JS library designed for high performance style composition
Webpacker - Use Webpack to manage app-like JavaScript modules in Rails
Material UI - Ready-to-use foundational React components, free forever. It includes Material UI, which implements Google's Material Design.