how are you generating the pdf? client side as well?
Show HN: A free invoice generator
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#12Nice work! Maybe add a way to export/import all invoices (say I want to switch machines). A data table to see all invoices and a reporting tool will be useful. Also, this is front-end only, why do we need ssl?
Also, this is front-end only, why do we need ssl? Not the author, but you still need secure transmission of the JS code, otherwise a MITM could send a modified version that sent your stored data to their servers.
This and the fact that there is a backend service that handles the work of generating the PDFs are the reasons why I wanted SSL (though I am looking into moving the PDF generation to be completely client-side).
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#13how are you generating the pdf? client side as well?
There's a Scala-based backend service that generates the PDFs based on the data it receives from the client (I am planning on transitioning to something like[1] for this purpose in the future, however). The PDFs are garbage-collected within 10 minutes of when they are created.
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#14This is really good. With the boring, generic, exact-match domain you've given it I was expecting something spammy. Is your aim to go after the SEO benefits or would you consider renaming it to something a bit more characteristic?
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#15INR shows up wrong - টকা
Thanks for pointing that out! I've updated it to use ₹ instead.
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#16how are you generating the pdf? client side as well?
There's a Scala-based backend service that generates the PDFs based on the data it receives from the client (I am planning on transitioning to something like[1] for this purpose in the future, however). The PDFs are garbage-collected within 10 minutes of when they are created. 1: http://parall.ax/products/jspdf
interesting, thanks for the info. i just finished up a similar project and had tough time with jspdf, ended up using http://pdfmake.org/#/.
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#17This is beautiful and exciting. Do you plan to share the source code in github ? I would love to contribute.
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#18This is really good. With the boring, generic, exact-match domain you've given it I was expecting something spammy. Is your aim to go after the SEO benefits or would you consider renaming it to something a bit more characteristic?
Thanks!
My goal with the domain name was to have it be extremely easy to remember (and descriptive!).
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#19I made one as well [0] for my own invoices as a contractor in the UK which I made to try out Typescript.
I just went the way of using the print to pdf feature of the browser rather than generating the PDF myself (and no need for any server side things this way!), works well enough for my case.
Code is on github: https://github.com/Keats/invoicer
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#20Pet peeve: for ambiguous currency signs, the currency code must always be clearly mentioned on the invoice.
I hate it when I buy from companies in the US and they just write their prices as $.
Then my accountant doesn't know if that invoice was in USD or HKD. There are dozens of countries that use the $ as their currency symbol.
At least mention the currency code somewhere, please.