harshit-budhraja / bulk-certifier

A bulk certificate generator written in Node.

bulk-certifier

A bulk certificate generator written in Node. The idea is to use a set of PDF templates (for different types of certificates eg: participation, winner etc.) and a CSV file to bulk export certificates.

Inspiration

The inspiration of working on this idea came in while organising HackNU 2.0 for students of NIIT University from 27th May - 3rd June, 2020.

Building locally

To build this project locally, you should have the following dependencies installed:

• Node.js (Built and tested on v10.16.3; recommended)
• npm (6.14.4)

Steps to setup the dev environment

1. Clone this repository on your machine: git clone https://github.com/harshit-budhraja/bulk-certifier.git && cd bulk-certifier

2. Install package dependencies: npm install

3. Set your NODE_ENV: export NODE_ENV=dev

4. Finally, run the app: node src/app.js

Steps for production execution

1. Create a folder production inside the assets folder and copy the necessary files in it. By default, this folder is added to .gitignore so it won't be committed to git.

2. List of files required:
   2.1 Font files at production/fonts/
   2.2 Template files at production/templates/<CERT_TYPE>.pdf
   2.3 Input CSV file at production/all.csv. (You can find a sample at dev/all.csv)

3. Set your NODE_ENV: export NODE_ENV=production

4. Run the app: node src/app.js