Generate PDFs from JavaScript in 2 Lines (No Puppeteer, No Headless Browser)

Generate PDFs from JavaScript in 2 Lines (No Puppeteer, No Headless Browser) You need to generate PDFs in Node.js. Invoices. Reports. Contracts. Receipts. Your first instinct: use Puppeteer. It works. But it's heavy. Puppeteer is a browser automation library. PDFs are just a side effect. You're paying the full cost of browser installation, process management, and memory overhead for something that should be simple. There's a better way. The Puppeteer PDF Problem Here's what PDF generation looks like with Puppeteer: const puppeteer = require ( ' puppeteer ' ); ( async () => { const browser = await puppeteer . launch ({ headless : ' new ' , args : [ ' --no-sandbox ' ] }); const page = await browser . newPage (); await page . setContent ( htmlContent ); // Wait for assets to load await page . waitForNavigation ({ waitUntil : ' networkidle2 ' }); await page . pdf ({ path : ' invoice.pdf ' , format : ' A4 ' , margin : { top : ' 20px ' , right : ' 20px ' , bottom : ' 20px ' , left : ' 20px '