html-invoicer

CLI to genarate simple invoices from html template

Install

npm i -g html-invoicer

Usage

invoice --tmpl path/to/template.html --data path/to/data --out path/to/output.pdf --any 12 --kind "of additional" --params possible

Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Required | Description | |-------------|-------------|---------------|-------------| | --tmpl | String | Yes | Template: a relative or absolute path to an html file.Templates can use es6 string interpolation syntax for variables: ${varname}| | --data | String | Yes | Data: a relative or absolute path to a js or json file. A js file can return either an object or a function. If a js data file exports a function, this function get passed all the command line parameters as an object. The function must then return an object with all the variables needed by the template| | --out | String | Yes | Output file: the pdf destination file|

Any additional parameters will be passed to the js data function — in case it is actually a function — and can be used to craft the template variables object — as stated before.

A complete example of a template.html file, a data.js file and the resulting invoice.pdf file can be found under the example directory.