It will generate a pdf using the client component (it can be any tech i.e backbone, react, angular).
Let's assume you have React, Angular, Backbone or any Javascript UI which is running on http://localhost:3000. and the server is running on http://localhost:3001. Now when you want to download the pdf we will hit the API (http://localhost:3001/export/pdf)
Internally server starts a headless browser and opens http://localhost:3000 application and creates the pdf (i.e print layout).
Note: Server-side pdf generator code is hardcoded so you will get same pdf every time.
- Go to client folder and run
npm install - Run command
npm startto start the client server (location : http://localhost:3000) - Go to server folder and run
npm install - Run command
node server.jsto start the node server (location : http://localhost:3001) - Go to http://localhost:3000 and click on download report it will hit the API http://localhost:3001/export/pdf and get the PDF
- You can directly call http://localhost:3001/export/pdf if you don't want to call it from the client application.