Create JSreport client server

[Ngô Duy]

Hello.
I create jsreport to generate PDF is OK now.
I use PKG npm newest version to create EXE file that run a jsreport server.
with command: pkg server.js

server.js

const jsreport = require('jsreport')()
const fs = require('fs')
if (process.env.JSREPORT_CLI) {
  // export jsreport instance to make it possible to use jsreport-cli
  module.exports = jsreport
} else {
  jsreport.init().then(() => {
    // running
  }).catch((e) => {
    // error during startup
    console.error(e.stack)
    fs.writeFileSync("log.txt", e.stack)
    process.exit(1)
  })
}    

jsreport.config.json

{
"httpPort": 5488,
"store": {
	"provider": "memory"
},
"blobStorage": {
	"provider": "memory"
},
"logger": {
	"console": {
		"transport": "console",
		"level": "debug"
	}
},
"allowLocalFilesAccess": true,
"reportTimeout": 600000,
"templatingEngines": {
	"numberOfWorkers": 4,
	"strategy": "http-server"
},
"chrome": {
	"launchOptions": {
		"args": []
	}
},
"extensions": {
	"authentication": {
		"cookieSession": {
			"secret": "secret_string"
		},
		"admin": {
			"username": "admin",
			"password": "jsreport"
		},
		"enabled": true
	},
	"scripts": {
		"strategy": "http-server"
	}
}
}

The problem is it's ok to start.

In the image:
1 -> successful init
2 -> error i got when create PDF with server running by file created by PKG
(with server running by node server.js its OK)

Anyone have an experiment about this issue ?

[jan_blaha]

Compiling jsreport (or other complex nodejs apps) into exe is much more complicated.
You can either download our already compiled distribution

https://github.com/jsreport/jsreport/releases

Or try to use our code that leverages pkg to compile:

jsreport v2
https://github.com/jsreport/jsreport-compile

jsreport v3
https://github.com/jsreport/jsreport/blob/master/scripts/compile.js

[Ngô Duy]

OK. Now i understand that pkg not resolve my problem.

I tried to download this one (https://github.com/jsreport/jsreport/releases) but it cant start. When i open it open command line window and shutdown (exit) imediately. Is that any special in there ?

[jan_blaha]

see the documentation
https://jsreport.net/learn/single-file-executable