This is a Rederly microservice that exports PDFs. It is built off of Atlassian's Docker-Chromium-Xvfb recipe and the npm package html5-to-pdf.

Future Improvements:

• This issue notes that multiple Puppeteer starts are needed when creating multiple parallel PDFs. The author suggests a library change to have a reusable puppeteer instance, which would a huge optimization.
• html5-to-pdf has built-in support for two templating engines. Rederly uses pug and could patch in support for it to the library.

Note: If you want to run this natively, you must have a google-chrome-stable binary accessible in your path.

Notes on Docker

Because the Renderer is not bundled into this docker container, you need to give the address for it to respond to. Similarly, if you're using the Backend to call this microservice, you currently need to specify the address to post errors and success back to. We might be able to grab that from the incoming request in the future.

docker build -t "bulk-pdf-export" .
docker run --cap-add=SYS_ADMIN --add-host host.docker.internal:host-gateway --rm -d -p 3005:3005 bulk-pdf-export:latest