who-wuda-thunk

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“You are just as likely to solve a problem

by being unconventional and determined

as by being brilliant”

sir james dyson

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who wuda thunk?

unfamilar terrain wicked, but me wickeda dan

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after countless (mindless) installations of “node” and enough insight to find node modules 🤝 thor’s hammer jokes relatable, i finally had to understand what [node-modules] are.

🧷 basically, you invoke any of them and boom- your app bags an extra layer of complexity.

🧷 these kind sires for instance 👇

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..one episode of over-excitement later

did a bit of snooping on repos owned by internet strangers and this guy 👉 express won’t stop showing up.

🧷 thankfully, MDN pulled up- rather expressive.

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this guy too 👉 app.use() sort of had me stumbling.

🧷 Express Docs came in handy 👇

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🧷 Fell into a rabbit hole about ports.

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…aaand thus began me woes

the sdk requires that the HTML FILE for conversion be stationed in a zip file.

one question… why? why me?

🧷 well, imagine how elated i was when after hours of brute-applying all shades of solutions, it finally clicked. pardon me for ever speaking so flippantly about node-modules.

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fr fr i thought i was done

now, imagine how my face dropped, when i encountered yet another.. woe

the pdf file showed up empty and i had no idea why, until when, ofcourse, i headed right back to the docs 👇

🧷 i was missing some js-code in the source-html.

🧷 with the js-code, star-boi data-to-merge will show up in the empty fields @ source-html

🧷 i.e populate.

🧷 sample files came in handy 👇

<script src="./json.js"></script>
  
  <script type="text/javascript">
    
      function populate()
      {
          let document = window.document;
          document.getElementById("title").innerHTML = String(window.json.title);
          document.getElementById("sub-title").innerHTML = String(window.json.sub_title);
      }
    </script>

(i still have no idea how this works <script src="./json.js"></script>)

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guess who showed up again? problem 👇

multiple attempts to fetch the pdf via the client but the server just won’t budge

..where did i go wrong?

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🧷 all it took was a formal request 👇

🧷 plus these guys to handle …and deliver 👇

🧷 and kaboom! 👇

did i mention?

believe me, i went on another bout of why isn’t it working

🧷 because an unwanted slash made it’s way in ..somehow.. 👇

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whew!

now that we’ve made it “work”, let’s put it to work.

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thank you for reading 🚀