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React Pdf

react-pdf

Display PDFs in your React app as easily as if they were images.

Utilities
pdf
pdf-viewer
react
react-pdf
Utilities
javascript
npm
frontend
open source
ui
Stars
11k
Weekly
5.6M
Open issues
19
Bundle
~15 kB

Installation

npm install react-pdf

Code example

import { usePdf } from "react-pdf";

export function Example() {
  const value = usePdf();
  return <p>{String(value)}</p>;
}

Pros & cons

Pros

  • Actively maintained by Wojciech Maj
  • 5.6M weekly downloads. Battle tested
  • First-class TypeScript definitions
  • MIT licensed

Considerations

  • Adds roughly ~15 kB to your bundle
  • Needs client-only rendering in SSR frameworks
  • Not supported in React Native
  • 19 open issues on GitHub

FAQs

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