webpack

pdfkit-webpack-example

Simple example of using PdfKit with webpack

Features

• Minimal webpack 5 setup
• Automatically register binary files added to static-assets folder
• Register AFM fonts provided by pdfkit
• Shows how to load and register files lazily

Technical details

webpack.config.js

• add alias to map fs calls to pdfkit virtual file system implementation
• ignore iconv-lite and crypto packages to save bundle file size
• add aliases to native node packages (buffer, stream, zlib, util, assert)
• configure *.afm files to be imported as text
• configure all files in src/static-assets folder to be imported encoded as base64
• configure all files in src/lazy-assets folder to be imported as URLs
• convert binary files used by linebreak and fontkit to base64

Caveats

The strategy to register binary files and AFM fonts inlines them in source code, increasing the bundle size significantly