HTML to PDF

Im sure everyone at some point has found the need to render html to pdf. I though it could be useful to show a simple example of how to this using azure functions. Setup for this function app is 100% stolen from Anthony Chu's blog post. I've used this with great success both internally to my company and for external tools as well. The cold start is not an issue for us, so we run it on a consumption plan behind API management gateway. If you want something that boots up faster you can always publish it to a premium plan.

I will try an keep this example up to date with .Net LTS release cycles as a reference to myself and anyone else who finds this useful.

Its also very trivial to write the same login in F# if that your jam! 😉

Running the App

1. Install latest Azure Function Tools.
2. Install .Net 8
3. Clone the repo gh repo clone rasheedaboud/ExampleHtmlToPdf.
4. cd into the project folder and run dotnet build and func host start.

Caveats

1. This only work on linux. When you deploy you app make sure you do not deploy wot windows machine.