An app to create PDF certificates for courses.
This app can be run in many ways from just accessing a URL to installing the dependencies and building it locally.
View the app on shinyapps.io.
❗ Docker image is about 2.2GB
docker run --platform=linux/amd64 --rm -p 3838:3838 ghcr.io/royfrancis/certexpress:latest
The app should be available through a web browser at http://0.0.0.0:3838.
Clone this repo and run:
docker build --platform=linux/amd64 -t certexpress:latest .
docker run --platform=linux/amd64 --rm -p 3838:3838 certexpress:latest
- Install quarto, R and the following R packages:
install.packages(c("shiny","bslib","quarto","markdown"))Tested on the following version:
R version 4.4.1
shiny_1.8.1.1
markdown_1.13
quarto_1.4.4
bslib_0.7.0
- Clone this repo, open R and run
shiny::runApp()
The shiny app captures user input which is passed into a quarto document. The quarto document uses a typst certificate template which is used to create a PDF. The PDF is displayed in the app preview or downloaded as a zip file. When multiple names are provided, PDFs are created for each name into a folder which is then zipped for download.
2024 • Roy Francis