Chartjs and Puppeteer

[RicardoGaefke]

I have a js file with puppeteer to generate a large report in pdf. Everything works pretty fine except for the canvas. In react file this is the basic logic for chartjs:

useEffect((): void => {
    if (refChart && refChart.current) {
      const newChartInstance = new Chart(refChart.current, chartConfig);

      newChartInstance.options.animation = {
        onComplete: (): void => {
          if (refImage && refImage.current) {
            refImage.current.src = newChartInstance.toBase64Image();
          }
        },
      };
    }
  }, [refChart]);

  return (
    <>
      <canvas ref={refChart} style={{ display: (printing) ? 'none' : 'block' }} width="100%" />
      <img
        alt="printing chart"
        ref={refImage}
        className={classes.chartImage}
        style={{
          display: (printing) ? 'block' : 'none',
        }}
      />
    </>
  );

If I open url or if I print it (CTRL + P) the images are shown in place of canvas but in puppeteer my pdf has the (broken) canvas with wrong size (even with printing locked as true).

This is what I expect and I can see in browser and printing:

And this is what I got from puppeteer:

Can anybody please help me with this? Thanks in advance.

PS: I have this question at StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69267937/puppeteer-and-pdf-generation-with-canvas

PPS: the images are generated but they seem to be created before correct render of canvas

[etimberg]

Might be related to #7006. I would make sure that animations are disabled and see if that helps

[RicardoGaefke]

I tried suggested but it didn't work yet. Do you guys have any other idea? Tks...

[etimberg]

You could try a pure JS solution like https://github.com/shellyln/chart.js-node-ssr-example

[RicardoGaefke]

I've found a solution seting page.setViewport() in puppeteer. This is the final js file:

const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');

module.exports = async (callback, url) => {
  const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
    headless: true,
    executablePath: (process.platform === 'win32') ? null : '/usr/bin/chromium-browser',
    args: ['--no-sandbox', '--headless', '--disable-gpu', '--disable-dev-shm-usage'],
  })
    .catch((err) => {
      // eslint-disable-next-line no-console
      console.log('lauch: ', err);
    });

  const page = await browser.newPage()
    .catch((err) => {
      // eslint-disable-next-line no-console
      console.log('page: ', err);
    });

  await page.setViewport({
    width: 1280,
    height: 1024,
    deviceScaleFactor: 1,
  });

  await page.goto(`${url}/pdf`, {
    waitUntil: ['load', 'domcontentloaded', 'networkidle0', 'networkidle2'],
    timeout: 0,
  })
    .catch((err) => {
      // eslint-disable-next-line no-console
      console.log('goto: ', err);
    });

  await page.evaluate(async () => {
    let scrollPosition = 0;
    let documentHeight = document.body.scrollHeight;

    while (documentHeight > scrollPosition) {
      window.scrollBy(0, documentHeight);
      // eslint-disable-next-line no-await-in-loop
      await new Promise((resolve) => {
        setTimeout(resolve, 100);
      });
      scrollPosition = documentHeight;
      documentHeight = document.body.scrollHeight;
    }
  });

  // await page.evaluate(async () => {
  //   const matches = document.querySelectorAll('img');

  //   matches.forEach((canv) => {
  //     // eslint-disable-next-line no-param-reassign
  //     canv.style.maxWidth = '80%';
  //   });
  // });

  const buffer = await page.pdf({
    // path: 'hn.pdf',
    format: 'a4',
    margin: {
      top: '1cm',
      bottom: '1.5cm',
    },
  })
    .catch((err) => {
      // eslint-disable-next-line no-console
      console.log('page.pdf: ', err);
    });

  await browser.close()
    .catch((err) => {
      // eslint-disable-next-line no-console
      console.log('close: ', err);
    });

  const base64 = buffer.toString('base64');
  return callback(null, base64);
};

And this is the final result: