Add support for running ReLaXed directly in NodeJS, without CLI
lucianonooijen opened this issue · 8 comments
Currently, I am creating a REST API endpoint for generating PDFs.
At the moment, this is done through writing to an HTML file, with the file contents, and then running the CLI command with a path to this file.
It would be nice to be able to run ReLaXed without having to write the buffer/string to a file first.
Maybe this is already integrated, but I could not find any documentation for how this could be done.
Possible fixes:
- Adding to the documentation if it's already available
- Making it possible to generate documents using an exposed API from the package to avoid having to write to disk first
Hi @lucianonooijen,
do you mean this?
https://github.com/RelaxedJS/ReLaXed#using-it-as-a-node-module
Hi @DanielRuf, thanks for the prompt reply!
Sort of, but this still uses paths/files like
<path-to-render-html>.htm',<path-to-render-pdf>.pdf''./template.pug'
so it still required disk writes/reads. What would be awesome it to have the same functionality, but to give the HTML as an argument, and get a PDF buffer back.
Ah, the tempHTMLPath
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If you go straight from HTML to PDF, maybe you could send the HTML directly to pupetteer instead of going through ReLaXed?
@Zulko we have considered going that route, but ReLaXed is a great tool to abstract away some other tools like Mermaid and such
I'm currently able to use ReLaXed through a NodeJS server.
I'm using https://github.com/RelaxedJS/ReLaXed#using-it-as-a-node-module as a basis but the example isn't super perfect.