DocuForge vs Puppeteer: Why I Switched

DocuForge vs Puppeteer: Why I Switched I spent three days getting Puppeteer to reliably generate invoices in production. Three days of debugging Chromium crashes inside Docker, wrestling with memory limits, and writing retry logic that should not have been my responsibility. Then I found DocuForge and replaced the entire setup in about ten minutes. This is not a theoretical comparison post. I am going to walk through the exact Puppeteer code I was running, the problems I hit, and how the same workflow looks with DocuForge. I will be honest about when Puppeteer still makes sense. But for my use case -- a SaaS that generates invoices, receipts, and shipping labels at moderate scale -- the switch was one of the best infrastructure decisions I made last year. If you are currently running Puppeteer or Playwright in production for PDF generation, or if you are about to set it up for the first time, this post will save you time. You will see the real tradeoffs, not a marketing page. Let me st