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React Player

react-player

A React component for playing a variety of URLs, including file paths, Mux, YouTube, Vimeo, and Wistia

Component Libraries
react
media
player
video
audio
youtube
vimeo
wistia
hls
dash
Documentation GitHub npm
Stars
10k
Weekly
1.6M
Open issues
62
Bundle
~25 kB

Installation

npm install react-player

Code example

import { Button } from "react-player";

export function Example() {
  return (
    <div className="flex gap-2">
      <Button>Primary</Button>
      <Button variant="outline">Secondary</Button>
    </div>
  );
}

Pros & cons

Pros

  • Actively maintained by Pete Cook
  • 1.6M weekly downloads. Battle tested
  • First-class TypeScript definitions
  • MIT licensed

Considerations

  • Adds roughly ~25 kB to your bundle
  • Needs client-only rendering in SSR frameworks
  • Not supported in React Native
  • 62 open issues on GitHub

FAQs

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