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DocKing: Your shared-microservice that takes over the document templates management & render/export PDF

DocKing from ShipSaaS

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Introducing DocKing

DocKing is a document management service/microservice that handles templates and renders them in PDF format, all in one place.

You can utilize DocKing as a shared microservice, which can be integrated & used in any services from your big product.

Documentation: DocKing

DocKing is well-tested & production-ready 😉🏎️🚀

LIVE DEMO 🔥

URL: https://docking-demo.shipsaas.tech/

Console: https://docking-demo.shipsaas.tech/console#/

• Password: None
• Drivers:
  • Gotenberg: Yes, use the Live Demo Instance (from Gotenberg.dev)
  • WkHtmlToPdf: Yes, without any extensions or fonts.
  • mPDF: Yes, without any extensions or fonts.
• Most of the features are disabled. You can only view & preview PDFs in multiple drivers.

Features 🚀

• Manage all of your document templates just in one place 📰🧾.
• Dynamically render & export PDF from your desired data 🏃‍.
• Supports multiple state-of-the-art PDF Engines 🍻.
• Supports sync & async PDF rendering modes 🔥.
• Webhook notification after PDF rendered (for async flow) 🚀
• Built-in UI-console to manage & review the templates & files (for internal use) 🔋.
• Horizontal scaling when traffic goes high? DocKing got that 😉.

Check out our planned features here: The DocKing Project

Diagram of how it works

From the diagram above, DocKing is standing as a "shared-microservice".

• Billing Service can manage their bill templates and render the PDFs.
• Order Service can manage their order templates and render the PDFs.
• Contract Service can manage their contract templates and render the PDFs.
• ...

Awesome, IKR?

The Awesome Console UI

DocKing ships the Built-in Console with awesome editor & features. Help you and the team to collaborate and manage everything easily.

Learn more: DocKing's Console UI

DocKing uses

• PHP 8.2
• Laravel 10
• Any database (MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite - your choice)
  • Personal preference: MySQL 8
• Vue 3
• Tailwind CSS

PDF Rendering Services

• Gotenberg ⭐️
• wkHTMLtoPDF ✅
• mPDF 🧰 (available since v1.1.0)

Tests

• Unit Tests to cover all functions & methods ❇️
• Integration Tests to test against REAL PDF ENGINES:
  • Gotenberg ✅
  • WkHtmlToPdf ✅
  • mPDF ✅
• E2E Tests to validate REAL WORLD API CALLs & Rendering Async Flow

LICENSE

MIT LICENSE

Development & Contribution Guidelines

• Please follow PSR-1 & PSR-12 coding conventions
• Unit/Integration testing is a must

Thank you very much for your contributions!

Contributors

ShipSaaS x Seth Phat & Contributors.

Copyright

Copyright ©️ 2023 by ShipSaaS x Seth Phat.