react-pdfv11.0.0, 10 Sept 2026
Display PDFs in your React app as easily as if they were images.
$ npm install react-pdf@react-pdf-viewer/corev3.12.0, 21 Mar 2023
A React component to view a PDF document
$ npm install @react-pdf-viewer/core| Metric | react-pdf | @react-pdf-viewer/core | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weekly downloads | 4,732,505 | 282,364 | react-pdf 16.8x higher |
| 12-month download growth | +202% | - | - |
| Gzip size | - | - | - |
| Minified size | - | - | - |
| Dependencies | 9 | 0 | react-pdf 9 more |
| Unpacked size | 329 kB | 337 kB | react-pdf 2% smaller |
| Latest release | 11.0.0, 10 Sept 2026 | 3.12.0, 21 Mar 2023 | react-pdf 3.5 years more recent |
| Releases, last 12 months | 6 | - | - |
| First published | 30 Sept 2014 | - | - |
| GitHub stars | 11,177 | 2,602 | react-pdf 4.3x higher |
| Open issues | 7 | 359 | @react-pdf-viewer/core 352 more |
| Open pull requests | 9 | 15 | @react-pdf-viewer/core 6 more |
| Contributors | - | - | - |
| Commits, last 52 weeks | 171 | 0 | react-pdf higher |
| TypeScript types | Bundled | Bundled | Same |
| Module format | ESM only | CommonJS | Differs |
| Runtimes | - | - | - |
| License | MIT | https://react-pdf-viewer.dev/license | Differs |
Green marks the smaller size or the more recent release. Bold marks the higher count, with no judgement implied. Sizes are for the whole package per Bundlephobia. Growth compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the 52-week series.
react-pdf4.7m latest week
Week of 23 Sept 2025Week of 15 Sept 2026
react-pdf
Major versions
- 0.0.130 Sept 2014
- 1.6.03 Mar 2017
- 2.0.05 Sept 2017
- 3.0.018 Mar 2018
- 4.0.023 Nov 2018
- 5.0.027 Aug 2020
- 6.0.08 Nov 2022
- 7.0.024 May 2023
- 8.0.030 Apr 2024
- 9.0.029 May 2024
- 10.0.026 Jun 2025
- 11.0.010 Sept 2026
Last 5 releases
- 11.0.010 Sept 2026
- 10.5.020 Aug 2026
- 10.4.125 Feb 2026
- 10.4.021 Feb 2026
- 10.3.030 Dec 2025
108 releases in total, 6 in the last 12 months
@react-pdf-viewer/core
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Last 5 releases
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- Need no runtime dependencies@react-pdf-viewer/core (react-pdf has 9, @react-pdf-viewer/core has 0)
- Need both ESM and CommonJS entry pointsNeither (react-pdf: ESM only; @react-pdf-viewer/core: CommonJS)
- Need to load it with require()@react-pdf-viewer/core
- Need TypeScript types in the package itselfBoth
- Need the more recent releasereact-pdf (11.0.0 on 10 Sept 2026 vs 3.12.0 on 21 Mar 2023)
- Higher weekly npm downloadsreact-pdf (4.7m vs 282.4k)
- Licensereact-pdf: MIT; @react-pdf-viewer/core: https://react-pdf-viewer.dev/license
Each line is generated from the data above.
react-pdf: react-pdf npm registry, react-pdf npm downloads, react-pdf GitHub, react-pdf jsDelivr. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.
@react-pdf-viewer/core: @react-pdf-viewer/core npm registry, @react-pdf-viewer/core GitHub. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.
Indexability: Indexed.