How to Generate PDFs in Next.js with DocuForge

How to Generate PDFs in Next.js with DocuForge If you have built anything beyond a toy Next.js application, you have probably run into the need to generate PDFs. Invoices after a successful checkout. Monthly reports for a dashboard. Receipts emailed to customers. Shipping labels. The list goes on. The naive approach is to reach for a browser-based library and render PDFs on the client. That works for simple cases, but it falls apart quickly. You leak API keys. You lose control over layout consistency across browsers. And you burden the user's device with heavy rendering work. Server-side PDF generation solves all of that. Your API keys stay on the server. You get pixel-perfect output from a headless Chromium instance. And you can generate PDFs asynchronously without blocking the UI. In this tutorial, you will build a complete PDF generation flow in a Next.js 14 application using DocuForge. By the end, you will have an API route that generates PDFs from raw HTML, a reusable template sys