A React renderer for creating PDF files on both the browser and server.
React-pdf is a React renderer that allows developers to create PDF files using React components and JSX syntax. It solves the problem of generating dynamic, styled PDF documents programmatically on both the server and client side. Instead of dealing with low-level PDF APIs, developers can use familiar React patterns to build documents.
React developers who need to generate PDFs within their applications, such as for invoices, reports, certificates, or any dynamic document output.
Developers choose react-pdf because it integrates seamlessly with React ecosystems, offering a declarative component model for PDF creation. It eliminates the need for template engines or complex PDF libraries by leveraging existing React skills.
📄 Create PDF files using React
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Enables PDF creation using familiar React components like Document and Page, making it intuitive for React developers to build dynamic documents without low-level PDF APIs.
Supports both server-side PDF generation in Node.js and client-side in the browser, as shown in the separate code examples for web and node environments.
Uses a CSS-in-JS StyleSheet API with Flexbox support, allowing complex layouts similar to web CSS, demonstrated in the example with flexDirection and flexGrow properties.
Includes a PDFViewer component for real-time previewing of PDFs in the browser, eliminating the need for external tools during development and testing.
Focuses on static document creation and lacks support for advanced PDF elements like forms, annotations, or multimedia embedding, which are common in mature PDF libraries.
Tightly coupled with React, making it unsuitable for non-React projects and adding bundle size overhead that might not be justified for simple PDF tasks.
Generating PDFs, especially large ones in the browser, can be resource-intensive and slow, as it relies on React's virtual DOM and rendering pipeline.