Salesforce Developer Tutorial (LWC): How to Generate a PDF from a Lightning Web Component
In this episode we go over how to generate a PDF from an LWC by leveraging the opensource jsPDF library. It's surprisingly simple thankfully and you can generate pretty much anything you can think of!
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Table of Contents:
0:00 - Intro
0:18 - Why create an LWC to generate PDF's
2:53 - The jsPDF library and static resources
6:12 - Building the Lightning Web Component
32:15 - Putting the LWC on a Lightning App Page
32:53 - Demoing the PDF Generation component
33:12 - Showing additional jsPDF features
34:18 - Outro
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