react-pdf
Display and render PDF documents in React applications with a simple component-based API.
Files, images and media npm MIT
Used in agent projects
27
0.2% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in files, images and media
#36 of 52
by use in those projects
Downloads
6.7M
npm, last 7 days, react-pdf
GitHub stars
11.2K
last push Oct 7, 2026
How react-pdf is used
react-pdf is a dependency in 27 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.2%), #36 of 52 in files, images and media. The most used alternative there is Sharp. Projects that use it most often also use Lucide React (74.1%), PDF.js (59.3%), Framer Motion (55.6%).
Often used with react-pdf
| Lucide React | 74.1% of react-pdf projects · 3.7× more than average |
|---|---|
| PDF.js | 59.3% of react-pdf projects · 87.5× more than average |
| Framer Motion | 55.6% of react-pdf projects · 4.1× more than average |
| Next.js | 70.4% of react-pdf projects · 3.1× more than average |
| react-markdown | 51.9% of react-pdf projects · 18.3× more than average |
| Zod | 59.3% of react-pdf projects · 3.5× more than average |
| Tailwind Merge | 59.3% of react-pdf projects · 3.5× more than average |
| React | 92.6% of react-pdf projects · 2.1× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list react-pdf as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install react-pdf |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Next.js (18), TypeScript / JavaScript (6), Python (1), Rust (1) |
| Example projects | crbnos/carbon, salocin93/freesign, vaibhav537/ClassifyAI, FixMyBerlin/trassenscout |
Alternatives to react-pdf
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sharp npm High-speed image processing for resizing, converting JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF formats. |
390 (3.1%) | 115M | 32.7K | Apache-2.0 |
| Pillow pypi Python imaging library for image processing, manipulation and conversion. |
292 (2.3%) | 138M | 13.9K | — |
| Nodemailer npm Send emails from Node.js applications with support for multiple transport methods. |
232 (1.8%) | 25.2M | 17.7K | MIT-0 |
| jsPDF npm Generate PDF documents directly from JavaScript in browsers and Node.js. |
184 (1.4%) | 15.6M | 31.3K | MIT |
| qrcode (JavaScript) npm Generate QR codes on server and client using canvas with Node.js and browser support. |
163 (1.3%) | 29.7M | 8,178 | MIT |
| SheetJS npm Parse and generate spreadsheets (Excel, CSV) in Node.js and browsers. |
146 (1.1%) | 12.7M | 36.3K | Apache-2.0 |
| 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) |