The original title is: "dompdf Alternatives: HTML to PDF in Laravel Without a Headless Browser"

Short summary

The article compares three common Laravel PDF generation approaches—dompdf (outdated CSS), Snappy/wkhtmltopdf (abandoned binary), and Browsershot (ops-heavy headless Chrome)—and proposes a fourth: POST rendered Blade HTML to the html2img API and receive a vector PDF back. This avoids maintaining Chrome on your server while keeping modern CSS support. The post includes Laravel code examples for the API integration and the html2img package.

• •dompdf lacks flexbox/grid; Snappy relies on an archived 2012-era WebKit binary; Browsershot works but adds Node+Chrome ops burden
• •API approach renders HTML in current Chrome server-side and returns a vector PDF URL, preserving your existing stylesheet
• •Includes Laravel facade code and composer package reference for html2img integration

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