A Node.js library that generates images from HTML
This module exposes a function that generates images (png, jpeg) from HTML. It uses puppeteer in headless mode to achieve it. Additionally, it embarks Handlebars to provide a way to add logic in your HTML.
npm install @fwd/render
# or
yarn add @fwd/render- Simple example
- TypeScript Support
- Options
- Setting output image resolution
- Example with Handlebars
- Dealing with images
- Using the buffer instead of saving to disk
- Generating multiple images
const render = require('@fwd/render')
render({
output: './image.png',
html: '<html><body>Hello world!</body></html>'
}).then(() => console.log('The image was created successfully!'))Types are included in the package. Enable the esModuleInterop compiler flag then change all references of require with import statements and you should be good to go:
import render from '@fwd/render'List of all available options:
| option | description | type | required |
|---|---|---|---|
| output | The ouput path for generated image | string | optional |
| html | The html used to generate image content | string | required |
| type | The type of the generated image | jpeg or png (default: png) | optional |
| quality | The quality of the generated image (only applicable to jpg) | number (default: 80) | optional |
| content | If provided html property is considered an handlebars template and use content value to fill it | object or Array | optional |
| waitUntil | Define when to consider markup succeded. Learn more. | string or Array (default: networkidle0) | optional |
| puppeteerArgs | The puppeteerArgs property let you pass down custom configuration to puppeteer. Learn more. | object | optional |
| transparent | The transparent property lets you generate images with transparent background (for png type). | boolean | optional |
| encoding | The encoding property of the image. Options are binary (default) or base64. |
string | optional |
@fwd/render takes a screenshot of the body tag's content. If you want to set output image's resolution you need to set its dimension using CSS like in the following example.
const render = require('@fwd/render')
render({
output: './image.png',
html: `<html>
<head>
<style>
body {
width: 2480px;
height: 3508px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>Hello world!</body>
</html>
`
}).then(() => console.log('The image was created successfully!'))Handlerbars is a templating language. It generates HTML from a template and an input object. In the following example we provide a template to @fwd/render and a content object to fill the template.
const render = require('@fwd/render')
render({
output: './image.png',
html: '<html><body>Hello {{name}}!</body></html>',
content: { name: 'you' }
}).then(() => console.log('The image was created successfully!'))Handlebars provides a lot of expressions to handle common use cases like conditions or loops.
If you want to display an image which is stored remotely do it as usual. In case your image is stored locally I recommend having your image in base64. Then you need to pass it to the template with the content property. Here is an example:
const render = require('@fwd/render')
const fs = require('fs');
const image = fs.readFileSync('./image.jpg');
const base64Image = new Buffer.from(image).toString('base64');
const dataURI = 'data:image/jpeg;base64,' + base64Image
render({
output: './image.png',
html: '<html><body><img src="{{imageSource}}" /></body></html>',
content: { imageSource: dataURI }
})If you don't want to save the image to disk and would rather do something with it immediately, you can use the returned value instead! The example below shows how you can generate an image and send it back to a client via using express.
const server = require('@fwd/server');
const render = require('@fwd/render');
server.get(`/api/tweet/render`, async function(req, res) {
const image = await render({
html: '<html><body><div>Check out what I just did! #cool</div></body></html>'
});
res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'image/png' });
res.end(image, 'binary');
});
server.start()If you want to generate multiple images in one call you must provide an array to the content property.
To save on the disk you must provide the output property on each object in the content property.
render({
html: '<html><body>Hello {{name}}!</body></html>',
content: [
{ name: 'Pierre', output: './image1.png' },
{ name: 'Paul', output: './image2.png' },
{ name: 'Jacques', output: './image3.png' }
]
}).then(() => console.log('The images were created successfully!'))If you don't want to save the images to disk you can use the returned value instead. It returns an array of Buffer objects.
const images = await render({
html: '<html><body>Hello {{name}}!</body></html>',
content: [
{ name: 'Pierre' },
{ name: 'Paul' },
{ name: 'Jacques' }
]
})👤 Forward Miami
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