PDF generation by framework
There is a page here only where the framework changes the answer — a route handler that streams, a runtime with no filesystem, a gateway that needs base64. Where it would not, the language page already covers it.
- PDF generation in Next.js — A route handler returns a Web `Response`, so the PDF can be piped straight through without ever touching the f…
- PDF generation in Django — You already have the template and the context. `render_to_string` turns the page you serve into the page you p…
- PDF generation in Ruby on Rails — Rails already renders the HTML; `render_to_string` hands it over. This replaces wkhtmltopdf, which has been un…
- PDF generation in Laravel — Blade gives you the HTML and Laravel’s HTTP client gives you a timeout and retries in one line, which is most …
- PDF generation in AWS Lambda — The usual approach — packaging chrome-aws-lambda — is a 50 MB layer, a cold start measured in seconds, and a C…
- PDF generation in Cloudflare Workers — Workers cannot run a browser at all — no Chromium, no native binaries. An HTTP call is the only option, and th…
- PDF generation in Supabase Edge Functions — Deno runtime, so the fetch is standard — but the natural next step is writing the PDF into Supabase Storage an…
- PDF generation in Spring Boot — Thymeleaf renders the HTML, and `StreamingResponseBody` is the idiomatic way to hand a binary back without buf…
- PDF generation in FastAPI — Async all the way down: httpx streams the response and `StreamingResponse` hands it to the client, so a long r…
- PDF generation in Express — The most common Node setup, and the one where people reach for Puppeteer first — which means a Chromium on eve…
- PDF generation in ASP.NET Core — Razor gives the HTML and `FileStreamResult` returns it without buffering — but the real reason for a page here…
- PDF generation in n8n — No code at all — but the binary-data handling is specific enough to n8n that getting it wrong produces a corru…