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is this lib still being maintained?

Open kaiomagalhaes opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

At my company, we made extensive use of this lib and we would like to know if it is still being maintained to know if we should continue using it or creating a fork

kaiomagalhaes avatar Nov 27 '21 14:11 kaiomagalhaes

(I recognise this is a bit of a late reply, but figured others might be looking for some answers, so leaving this here for others)

I'm one of the original maintainers of this project, and it is most definitely unmaintained. Sorry for the late reply as I had stopped getting notifications.

I wouldn't recommend using this because its dependencies are really outdated, and it is relying on Electron for the actual generation compared to more modern generators which are now relying on truly headless Chromium (more performant, and more secure).

As alternatives / successors, I would recommend:

  • Gotenberg (https://github.com/gotenberg/gotenberg): for heavier use-cases or direct replacements of Athena
  • Shuttlepdf (https://github.com/Courtsite/shuttlepdf): for lighter use-cases, and if you have access to Cloud Functions / Lambda

MrSaints avatar Aug 10 '22 11:08 MrSaints

@MrSaints Hey, thanks for the reply. Would you consider archiving the repo or adding a notice to the README? Happy to send a PR for the latter.

cedws avatar Sep 07 '22 20:09 cedws