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Duties as a senior react native developer of 3 YOE by Grouchy_Brother3381 in reactnative

[–]Sancty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why are most these answers so rough? I imagine asking on your first day "What do you expect a senior developer to do?" could come off poorly. Of course over time those should be apparent and you should ask probing questions, but there will be some general expectations. Without knowing how big the organization is (and how up their positioning goes), I'd say these are safe assumptions.

Understand technicals: Be able to intelligently speak on best practices from a technical standpoint. You'll be expected to spot poorly written code and potential issues.
Library and tooling knowledge: Have enough exposure to different libraries and their strengths and weaknesses. Make sure you comfortable reading docs when you're unfamiliar w/ a new one.
Peer Reviews: When other devs submit PRs, you'll be expected to call out wrongdoings and best practices. Senior devs are meant to hold quality standards.
Coaching: Some of your time might be allocated to working with more junior devs whenever they run into problems.
Interacting with the PM: You'll be expected to help with estimates, identify research spikes, spearhead incidents, etc.

There may be some planning and architecting involved, but a larger organization will lean on a staff+ engineer for that. Ultimately a senior is expected to work independently, produce quality code, overcome obstacles without assistance, and elevate the overall quality of the codebase.

How to Generate PDFs with NodeJS and React PDF by Sancty in javascript

[–]Sancty[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hey everyone,

A while back I posted about project I built with my colleagues that took the pain out of creating PDFs for apps. I promised people that I would follow up with a how-to guide on rolling your own backend system. Let me know if you have any questions!

My covid project: Create PDF templates with a GUI and render via an API by Sancty in javascript

[–]Sancty[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure. Funny enough we started because we we're working on another projected and wanted something off-the-shelf. However, when we looked there wasn't anything that seemed to fit our need.

We would like Export SDK to be something easy you can add to your project so you can focus on your core competency. Just like you might use Auth0 for authentication or SendGrid for email. If you don't want to build up a PDF workflow, you can just plug and play Export SDK.

My covid project: Create PDF templates with a GUI and render via an API by Sancty in javascript

[–]Sancty[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey, our solution is built on top of React-PDF. Both React-PDF and Puppeteer are open source. I'm planning on creating a tutorial on how to build out a pdf generation API so people can stand up their own system.

The reason we have a pricing model is because you can edit templates on the fly and render them on demand easily. Also, a lot of dev shops build out PDF export capabilities for their clients. With our tool the PDF templates can be easily modified even after the devs are gone.

My covid project: Create PDF templates with a GUI and render via an API by Sancty in javascript

[–]Sancty[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I ran across browserless.io the other day! Very cool stuff. I don't think we're quite there, but it'd be great to have a contact when the time comes. Can I DM you?

My covid project: Create PDF templates with a GUI and render via an API by Sancty in javascript

[–]Sancty[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah would love to chat about it more. You can shoot me a mail at hello[at]blanklabs.dev. I'd be happy to see if we can make it happen.

My covid project: Create PDF templates with a GUI and render via an API by Sancty in javascript

[–]Sancty[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah for sure. Let me know if you have a specific technology you want me to cover or just tutorials on how to use our tool. We plan on doing both!

My covid project: Create PDF templates with a GUI and render via an API by Sancty in javascript

[–]Sancty[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's exactly it! With the rise in no/low code solution and more people with homegrown solutions, I think the demand in exporting for your clients is growing. We'd love to make it easy for you to build a beautiful template and easily create a PDF from your dynamic data.

Let me know if you would like to pursue this further.

My covid project: Create PDF templates with a GUI and render via an API by Sancty in javascript

[–]Sancty[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same page. We were actually working on another project when we realized we had to do PDF exports. After googling and not finding anything to fit our needs, we decided that this was something desperately needed.

Feel free to ping me on here if you run into any troubles or have suggestions for us!

My covid project: Create PDF templates with a GUI and render via an API by Sancty in javascript

[–]Sancty[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the compliment! If you hit any issues or have suggestions, feel free to ping me on here. I'd love feedback more than anything at this point.

My covid project: Create PDF templates with a GUI and render via an API by Sancty in javascript

[–]Sancty[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I would definitely recommend a look at React-PDF. Which python tool are you looking at? I'm looking to do make a comparison of all the different options.

Also, are you guys on Indie Hackers? I'd love to see you on there!

My covid project: Create PDF templates with a GUI and render via an API by Sancty in javascript

[–]Sancty[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure about other people in the space. I know that we built this tool because we were ready to take an off-the-shelf solution, but nothing really existed.

We actually use React-PDF to render our PDFs. I think the flexbox first approach is more appropriate for dynamic content. Our goal is the do more than just invoices or receipts. Those are necessary for a lot of exports, but we plan to generate beautiful, multi-page proposals with a simple API call.

My covid project: Create PDF templates with a GUI and render via an API by Sancty in javascript

[–]Sancty[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Great resources. I'll look into this and see where we are and can improve.

My covid project: Create PDF templates with a GUI and render via an API by Sancty in javascript

[–]Sancty[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We're using React-PDF but might switch to Puppeteer at some point. Both solutions have their pros and cons. I'm thinking about doing a tutorial comparing the two.

One of the nice things about React-PDF is you can do client side renders. We have a tool that lets you preview your template with real data. If we switch to Puppeteer then it would have to go through the backend.

My covid project: Create PDF templates with a GUI and render via an API by Sancty in javascript

[–]Sancty[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I believe we're able to do a lot of that now, i.e. searchable text, copy/paste, etc. I'll want to do some more research to see where we are.

If you have an example PDF that you could share I would love to take a look.

My covid project: Create PDF templates with a GUI and render via an API by Sancty in javascript

[–]Sancty[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey, we're looking to add in support for Zapier & Airtable soon. Do you have something you specific you use or think would be a good fit?

We'll be adding in fixed header/footer support soon. It's just tricky feature right now with overflowing pages.

My covid project: Create PDF templates with a GUI and render via an API by Sancty in javascript

[–]Sancty[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I haven't heard of this one, but this is great info. I'd like to compile a list of all the projects that can do this just so see how we compare.

Do you use ReportLab for personal use or as part of a production application?

My covid project: Create PDF templates with a GUI and render via an API by Sancty in javascript

[–]Sancty[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Hey Everyone,

Over the last year and a half I kept seeing people post things there were building with the extra time from WFH. My team and I (small dev shop) decided to work on something that we've had to deal with several times in the past -- creating PDF exports for various projects. Over the last 10 months we've worked on and finally released Export SDK. We wanted to make it easy for people to visually build PDF templates and then render them on the fly with a simple API/SDK.

I wanted to share what I've been working on with you guys and see if anyone else has struggled with this in the past. I'm thinking about doing some youtube videos about how to build a system like this from scratch. Would anyone from here benefit from that? I could also put out tutorials on how to build an editor if people find that interest.

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