Docxtemplater: What It Is and Why You Need It

Overview and Core Features

If you need a software solution for producing multiple copies of a Word document, each with customized data (such as names, addresses, images, etc.), docxtemplater is designed for you!

docxtemplater is a widely-used JavaScript mail-merging library that generates DOCX, PPTX and XLSX documents from templates and a database containing the custom data. This enables you to automate large-scale document generation efficiently.

The docxtemplater library is downloaded over 400,000 times each month and serves about 50,000 companies worldwide (the open-source version). We developed it in JavaScript so you can use it both on a local computer/server with Node.js or directly in a browser.

The open-source version of our library supports conditions and loops. For additional functionalities, we offer various add-ons (which we call modules), such as the image module, the HTML module, the table module, the excel module, and more.

How Docxtemplater Works

docxtemplater uses JavaScript objects (or JSON) as data input, making it easily usable from other languages as well : Python, PHP, Ruby, C, … (see the docker version to know the full list of supported languages).

docxtemplater offers a straightforward API that abstracts complexities related to loops, conditions, and additional functionalities.

Getting Started with Docxtemplater

If you need extra features, you can buy one of our paid modules available on the the docxtemplater docs page.

We offer multiple demos to give you a glimpse of what our software can do.

To install and start using docxtemplater, please follow our guidelines:

for use with node; if you need to integrate the library in your backend.
for use on a browser; if you need to integrate the library in the frontend (works if you have a website but don't want to install node, for example Wordpress, Webflow, …).

Also, we are more than happy to help you set up docxtemplater and we offer consulting services for that purpose if needed.

Docxtemplater vs other libraries

To streamline automated document generation, you might consider solutions like :

These solutions do not offer a template-based approach.

Thus, it becomes very tedious if you want to create a multi-page document because you have to write so, much, code.

We developed docxtemplater as a new approach that uses placeholders inside .docx, .pptx or .xlsx templates.

As a result, our software is user-friendly and your code is easy to maintain, saving you time and requiring less expertise. We let you focus on the document that you want to generate, not on the technical details of Office OpenXML.

If you want to see this in action, check out this simple demo.