# How to create PDF in browser JS In this article, I will share my experience with PDF libraries in browser-js & recommend [pdf-lib](https://pdf-lib.js.org/). # How I got here Pdf manipulation is a perfect task to include in js-bundler benchmarks. It happens among real-world requirements; the output is obviously either correct or broken, and you need a heavy library to get the job done. In some of my previous articles: * [How to lazy load in webpack 5](https://how-to.dev/how-to-lazy-load-library-in-webpack-5) * [How to speed up webpack with esbuild-loader](https://how-to.dev/how-to-speed-up-webpack-with-esbuild-loader) I needed some easy-to-use library, that I can integrate fast & focus on the rest of the task. First I got to [PDFKit](https://www.npmjs.com/package/pdfkit), but at the time it was building smooth in webpack 5, and it felt like setting my benchmark code will be really painful. Luckily, later I started my search from scratch and got to [PDF-LIB](https://pdf-lib.js.org/). With this library, the integration was smooth and it worked perfectly out of the box. # Examples The library documentation has [a nice set of examples](https://pdf-lib.js.org/#examples). Their hello word example: ```html ``` is what I used as base code in my benchmarks, and you can see it in action here: https://marcin-wosinek.github.io/esbuild-loader-pdf-lib/ # Summary My way of getting into PDF creation was nonstandard, but PDF-LIB was very smooth to integrate. I'm not sure how it compares with the others in more advanced tasks, but PDF manipulation can get complicated on its own so I appreciate that the library doesn't give headaches on the setup. What are your experience with PDF libraries in javascript?