This package is used to display existing PDFs. If you wish to create PDFs using React, you may be looking for @react-pdf/renderer. Install by executing npm install react-pdf or yarn add react-pdf.

Latest version: 10.2.0, last published: 2 months ago. Start using react-pdf in your project by running `npm i react-pdf`. There are 985 other projects in the npm registry using react-pdf.

React renderer for creating PDF files on the browser and server

July 10, 2023 - The simplest way to display a PDF document in React is by using the `<iframe>` element.

A React component to view PDF documents

April 21, 2025 - This tutorial demonstrates how to display PDFs in React applications using Vite and Nutrient’s Web PDF SDK. It provides step-by-step instructions for project setup, configuration, and implementation.

August 12, 2025 - If you don’t need advanced features like annotations or custom UI controls, the easiest way to embed PDFs in your React app is by using native HTML tags such as <iframe>, <embed>, and <object>. These methods require no additional libraries ...

// Core viewer import { Viewer } from '@react-pdf-viewer/core'; // Plugins import { defaultLayoutPlugin } from '@react-pdf-viewer/default-layout'; // Import styles import '@react-pdf-viewer/core/lib/styles/index.css'; import '@react-pdf-viewer/default-layout/lib/styles/index.css'; // Create new plugin instance const defaultLayoutPluginInstance = defaultLayoutPlugin(); <Viewer fileUrl='/assets/pdf-open-parameters.pdf' plugins={[ // Register plugins defaultLayoutPluginInstance, ...

September 30, 2020 - Displaying PDF using React by Sahero using react, react-dom, react-pdf, react-scripts

July 23, 2025 - But if you don't want that then there is a way to do so. You can use the package called react-pdf, by using this package you can render the PDF in your React app by using the PDF URL.

June 5, 2023 - Step-by-step guide on how to embed pdf viewer in react app supporting various capabilities, size and types of files.

import React, { useEffect, useRef } from 'react'; import { GemBoxPdfViewer } from '@gembox/pdfviewer'; import '@gembox/pdfviewer/dist/es/pdfviewer.css'; GemBoxPdfViewer.setLicense("FREE-LIMITED-KEY"); const PdfViewer = ({ initialDocument = null }) => { const viewerElement = useRef(null); useEffect(() => { GemBoxPdfViewer.create({ container: viewerElement.current, initialDocument: initialDocument }); }, []); return ( <div ref={viewerElement} style={{ width: "600px", height: "350px" }}></div> ); }; export default PdfViewer; You can save this component as PdfViewer.jsx and use it throughout your React application as needed. To display existing PDF documents you can use the React component created in the previous step:

January 11, 2023 - To render the PDF file, react-pdf has a Document component where you need to pass a file prop. Then inside the Document component, you need to create a Page component. Simple isn’t it?

A React project based on react, react-dom, react-pdf and @babel/runtime

March 5, 2021 - Then we have to import it into our component that we are rendering the PDF file. For my example I have a Resume component that I would like to render the PDF file. import React from 'react'import { Document, Page } from 'react-pdf/dist/esm/entry.webpack';const Resume = () => { return ( <div className='main-container'> </div> ) }

React PDF Viewer gives you a fast, customisable, and web‑responsive PDF component for React & Next.js — full search, print, zoom & Context API control.