Transactional.dev - Next level PDF generation tool for devs

Hey Product Hunters 👋 I'm Kevin, a solopreneur from Nice in the south of France. After years of coding in PHP and creating projects that generated thousands of invoices and documents, I often felt frustrated with PDF generation. Hours spent on Stack Overflow and using outdated tools that didn’t support modern CSS (and fonts!) led to a huge waste of time with little value. Even when I switched to Node.js with Puppeteer, managing it myself wasn't ideal. My value as a developer shouldn't be tied up in this. That's why I created Transactional.dev. It combines the strengths of: - Mailgun: for transactional templates - VS Code: for the development experience - TailwindCSS: for coding at the speed of light - Google Fonts: one-click typography - Chromium: for perfect rendering Effortlessly generate stunning PDFs, manage templates, track stats, and host them on a CDN. I hope https://transactional.dev/ makes life easier for many developers. Try it out and share your feedback! 🚀

Hey Kevin! Congrats on your launch! I'm also waiting for the integration with different tools :)

This tool looks incredibly useful for streamlining PDF generation workflows. It would be great to see integration with popular project management and CRM tools. Additionally, pre-built templates for common business documents like invoices and contracts could save developers even more time.

Strong project which will help us a lot in our dev work ! I will try it !

I think it would work perfect if the user can modify the PDF document like placing constants, images and general elements and at the same time get the code generated. That means the user can modify the code to change the UI of the PDF or modify the PDF document by dragging and dropping elements or adding elements to modify the code.

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I hope more developers get to know about this and try using this

Does that support PDF signing and encryption?

This is awesome, pdf generation is a massive pain if your app requires it and I've lost days of time getting things to work. Love the landing page too!

This is a great idea to generate pdf using handlebars utilizing the power of html, stylesheets and javascript. The use of variables and different types of stylesheets is an added benefit to the user. One thing I missed is download feature. It would be great if there is a feature to download the pdf.

That’s useful tool, thanks a lot 🔥

Congratulation for your launch, I will try your product on my project !

Useful tool for PDF generation

That looks great, I can't wait to try it. I generate a lot of PDFs and would prefer to use VScode and tailwind. No idea something like this existed!

Hey Kevin, thanks for the nice tool. Can you share some of the most impactful feedback you've received from users since launching Transactional.dev, and how it has influenced your roadmap?

I wish I had seen this tool before! It looks like a way to save a lot of time and nerves. Congratulations on launch!