comparison with https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer ?

[graingert]

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer

[westy92]

Puppeteer is a library similar to the one we use (chrome-remote-interface) to interface with Chrome. Although you can use puppeteer for basic PDF generation, html-pdf-chrome has a richer and ever-growing feature set that will not be matched by puppeteer. Below is a more in-depth comparison.

puppeteer	html-pdf-chrome
Requires Node.js v7.10+	Requires Node.js v6+
Can interact with Chrome to do many tasks	Laser-focused on generating PDFs and other images
Can listen for page render completion a few ways before generating a PDF	Can listen many ways (and more are to be added!)
Takes in Chrome-specific parameters for generation	Currently takes in Chrome parameters but plans to expand
No such feature or plan	Custom headers/footers for each printed page (planned)
Generates PDF to a raw buffer or file	Can save to raw buffer, file, base64 string, and stream