Generate a PDF in React

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[mrvfino]

Omg i was just looking for this! Thanks you always for the straightforward tutorials.

[JuanMoisesTorrijos]

Hi Colby. Thank you for this video. I’ve been using React-PDF and I think it’s the best of the three options. However, the documentation didn’t clearly explain how to use the renderToStream method properly, and I had a lot of trouble with it, especially with TypeScript. Your solution, even though it seems like a patch, has been really helpful—thank you!

[tusharphb]

I was using Puppeteer to generate invoices in a serverless environment, and while it worked fine, the problem was that my computation hours were getting used up too quickly. After watching your video, I decided to give React-pdf a try. Thank you for the video ❤

Looking forward to seeing you more often in my YouTube feed.

[alexgochenour]

This is better than most paid content I've come across. You could totally rock a Front End Masters course. Thanks!

[asadsalehumar]

Awesome video on a niche topic. Really helpful!

[cutefatboy]

The react-pdf/renderer option doesn't seem to work anymore on Nextj14 and 15 and React 18? I tried V3 and V4 and followed your code.

const stream = await renderToStream(<MyDocument />); //Code dies here.

We get error Error generating PDF: Error: Minified React error #31; Objects are not valid as a React child (found: object with keys {$$typeof, type, key, props, _owner, _store}). If you meant to render a collection of children, use an array instead.

Can you double check on a new project and see if you get the same error in your route.tsx file?

[ardianhotii]

Thank you for sharing this, probably gonna use react pdf for a costum format and style for my invoices, I tried pdf-lib but I think its too hard when dealing with costum designs .
Really appreciate the video thank you again!

[jengkhaw]

I went into this few weeks ago! Thanks for sharing!

[NARY]

Puppeteer might share the session between users (especially in server based environments), maybe clerk handles invalidations fine, but I'd still be careful with it.

[Naz-ez]

This was really helpfull. You just saved me from tons of research.

[rayusaki]

Very helpful Colby as always. Thanks a ton. Can you do more advanced tutorial on React PDF?

[FoodTechLife]

Noice! Nothing like a solution that comes in at the perfect moment. I used this today 😄 Thanks!

[giuseppebosco]

The proposed solution with react-pdf is not working anymore with next 15. Any fixes?

[blacksun]

Hi man thank you so much for all the tuto you have done till now, I recently completed some personal project due to your tuto on intersection observer and html dialog, everything is really smooth when concepts are explain by a pro.
Also can You please make a video on mdx with vite for a documentation or blog app.

[alamgirhossain]

React-pdf/renderer is best. If you know about react native then it will be super easy to make a invoice and download without any issue. Also if you want to design with tailwindcss same as web then you can use react-pdf-tailwind.

[preslavgetov]

How does embedding html work? Lets say i have a piece of html i want to embed in my new pdf?

[AlamProjects]

Hi Colby, thank for the video, do you know if there is a way to include selectable checkboxes inside the pdf using react-pdf/renderer?

[humashakhan-yxsl]

how to solve oklch issue? i can not convert to pdf in my react project & i used html2pdf library

[gianmarcoscandale]

Thank you so much for your content!

I have a question: how can I implement react-pdf on Next.js for exceptionally large PDF files?

I’m dealing with a file of over 600 pages, and rendering this server-side results in a timeout as it takes over 10 seconds to process. I considered implementing a streaming solution, but I haven’t found any examples or discussions about it online. Would you recommend this approach, or do you have any other suggestions?

[jeremy]

How would i go about generating a pdf from a template with form data on the backend? Great video!