If you've ever had to generate a PDF from HTML in a Node.js app — an invoice, a report, a contract — you've probably hit the same fork in the road. Do you spin up Puppeteer, reach for the old reliable wkhtmltopdf, or pay someone else to run it?
This post walks through the trade-offs honestly. We build HTML-to-PDF.io, so we have a side, but the goal here is to help you pick what actually fits your project — sometimes that's us, sometimes it isn't.