README.md

HTML to Image in React

In this project one can easily download the image of the div container with the download button in the format of JPEG or PNG

Previous Approach

When looking for npm packages to HTML to image the normal size of the package is more than 400kb. But the size of htmltocanvas package is only 40kb.

Current Approach

To solve the size issue mentioned above here I have used only htmltocanvas package and create a htmltoimg js file src/htmltoimg.js to export the PNG and JPEG component.

How to run

copy paste the code below in the file where you want to create HTML to Image component.

import { exportComponentAsJPEG, exportComponentAsPNG } from './htmltoimg';
import React, { useRef } from 'react';

const ComponentToPrint = React.forwardRef((props, ref) => (
  <div ref={ref}>Hello World</div>
));

const MyComponent = () => {
  const componentRef = useRef();

  return (
    <React.Fragment>
      <ComponentToPrint ref={componentRef} />
      <button onClick={() => exportComponentAsJPEG(componentRef)}>
        Export As JPEG
      </button>
      <button onClick={() => exportComponentAsPNG(componentRef)}>
        Export As PNG
      </button>
    </React.Fragment>
  );
};

export default MyComponent;

Alternate method

Clone git repository: $ git clone git@github.com:indu-bakshi/htmltoimg.git

Install dependencies: $ npm install

Start: $ npm start