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Bootstrap
Sleek, intuitive, and powerful mobile first front-end framework for faster and easier
web development.
Bootstrap has become somewhat of a standard in modern applications. It’s often used as a CSS reset,
a wire-framing tool and even as the baseline for all application CSS. We’re going to use it to neaten
up our simple HTML.
It’s available for linking (as we did with AngularJS):
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You can also download it, and serve it directly from the public folder. As it contains CSS and fonts;
be sure to update all paths to the relevant images and/or fonts that come bundled with it.
DOMPDF
At its heart, dompdf is (mostly) CSS 2.1 compliant HTML layout and rendering engine
written in PHP. It is a style-driven renderer: it will download and read external
stylesheets, inline style tags, and the style attributes of individual HTML elements. It
also supports most presentational HTML attributes.
DOMPDF essentially takes HTML documents and converts them into PDF files. If you’ve ever had
to produce PDF files programatically (at least in PHP) then this library should be like the singing of
angels to your ears. It really is epic.
To install this guy; we need to add a composer dependency: