pdf-lib
Create and modify PDF documents with JavaScript in Node.js and browsers.
Files, images and media npm MIT
Used in agent projects
69
0.5% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in files, images and media
#12 of 52
by use in those projects
Downloads
17.3M
npm, last 7 days, pdf-lib
GitHub stars
8,654
last push Jul 17, 2024
How pdf-lib is used
pdf-lib is a dependency in 69 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.5%), #12 of 52 in files, images and media. The most used alternative there is Sharp. Projects that use it most often also use Lucide React (68.1%), Class Variance Authority (56.5%), Tailwind Merge (59.4%).
Often used with pdf-lib
| Lucide React | 68.1% of pdf-lib projects · 3.4× more than average |
|---|---|
| Class Variance Authority | 56.5% of pdf-lib projects · 4.0× more than average |
| Tailwind Merge | 59.4% of pdf-lib projects · 3.5× more than average |
| clsx | 59.4% of pdf-lib projects · 3.4× more than average |
| Zod | 58.0% of pdf-lib projects · 3.4× more than average |
| React | 87.0% of pdf-lib projects · 2.0× more than average |
| tsx | 43.5% of pdf-lib projects · 4.4× more than average |
| date-fns | 43.5% of pdf-lib projects · 5.1× more than average |
By coding agent
| Cursor | 1.5% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 0.8% of projects set up for it |
| GitHub Copilot | 0.8% of projects set up for it |
| Gemini CLI | 1.1% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list pdf-lib as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install pdf-lib |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Next.js (42), TypeScript / JavaScript (24), Python (2), React Native / Expo (1) |
| Example projects | 5pyj29s7cm-tech/LumiCore, fountain-ink/app, alkem-io/server, tamer4lynx/tamer4lynx, vaibhav537/ClassifyAI |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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| html2canvas npm JavaScript library for taking screenshots of web pages and rendering HTML to canvas. |
115 (0.9%) | 18.5M | 31.9K | MIT |
| JSZip npm JavaScript library for creating, reading and editing ZIP archives in the browser. |
96 (0.8%) | 47.5M | 10.4K | (MIT OR GPL-3.0-or-later) |