DEV Community

Building a simple invoice generator with Node Js

Olaf Ranai { dev-it-out } on May 16, 2022

Why β“πŸ€” After each online coaching sessions, at the beginning, that was a pain to find a good invoice generator platform as I was not yet...
Collapse
 
laurencioscript profile image
Gabriel Laurencio

i built a mini project for knowing new chapters of mangΓ‘s in site and warn in my channel in discord when has new releases, basically my project did web scraping in specific web page.

github.com/laurencioScript/sakamot...

Collapse
 
olaf_ranai profile image
Olaf Ranai { dev-it-out }

nice ^^ would love having an english version of the README though :/

Collapse
 
andrewbaisden profile image
Andrew Baisden

Cool project.

Collapse
 
olaf_ranai profile image
Olaf Ranai { dev-it-out }

thanks ^^ was just a small hobby ^^

Collapse
 
cednore profile image
cednore

So Nice!

Collapse
 
bam92 profile image
Abel Lifaefi Mbula

A good short that goes straight to the main point. Hope you'll open source the project.

Collapse
 
olaf_ranai profile image
Olaf Ranai { dev-it-out }

thanks ^^
It is on git

github.com/njivaolafpro/invoice-ma...
( need to clean up a bit the doc though ;) )

Collapse
 
kelseyjj profile image
Kelsey Jones

Awesome article.

Collapse
 
olaf_ranai profile image
Olaf Ranai { dev-it-out }

thank you ^^

Collapse
 
cjw profile image
Clifford Watson

good read

Collapse
 
aaravrrrrrr profile image
Aarav Reddy

Thanks for writing

Collapse
 
olaf_ranai profile image
Olaf Ranai { dev-it-out }

no prob ;)

Collapse
 
felipegenuino profile image
Felipe Genuino

Nice work

Collapse
 
olaf_ranai profile image
Olaf Ranai { dev-it-out }

thanks x)

Collapse
 
umeya_kassim profile image
umeya kassim

How does one know the right library to use in this case of generation

Collapse
 
olaf_ranai profile image
Olaf Ranai { dev-it-out }

for the pdf generation, there are some on npm, I usually use the most stable with a good community ;)
( I tend to avoid html -> pdf as there are some bugs in the zooming part )

Collapse
 
juanfabiorey profile image
juanfabiorey

Wow! Thanks

Collapse
 
olaf_ranai profile image
Olaf Ranai { dev-it-out }

no prob ;)

Collapse
 
adarshmadrecha profile image
Adarsh Madrecha

Any link to the code?
Can you please share a sample PDF.

Collapse
 
olaf_ranai profile image
Olaf Ranai { dev-it-out }

yep...I just edited the post to add the github link.

github.com/njivaolafpro/invoice-ma...

Collapse
 
leanderd profile image
Leander Dirkse • Edited

You could try to connect it to Toggl Track via their API.
Keep track of time, projects, clients etc.

Collapse
 
olaf_ranai profile image
Olaf Ranai { dev-it-out }

Good idea ^^ will try that one ;) thanks

Collapse
 
warwait profile image
Parker Waiters

Glad I came across this.

Collapse
 
lalami profile image
Salah Eddine Lalami

@ IDURAR , we use are using node.js react.js & redux

Here Tutorial about : πŸš€ Building and Generate Invoice PDF with React.js , Redux and Node.js : dev.to/idurar/building-an-invoice-...

 Building and Generate Invoice PDF with React.js , Redux and Node.js

Collapse
 
lalami profile image
Salah Eddine Lalami

Thanks for sharing, @ IDURAR , we use are using node.js react.js & redux

Here Tutorial about : πŸš€ Building and Generate Invoice PDF with React.js , Redux and Node.js : dev.to/idurar/building-an-invoice-...

 Building and Generate Invoice PDF with React.js , Redux and Node.js

Collapse
 
philipd21 profile image
Philip Daudu

Thanks this was helper tho.
Beginner self was able to grasp the code

Gracias

Collapse
 
philipd21 profile image
Philip Daudu

Please where can I get in touch with you please

Collapse
 
olaf_ranai profile image
Olaf Ranai { dev-it-out }

Hello, you can have my contacts in my linktree linktr.ee/njivaolaf_pro