react-playerv3.4.0, 13 Nov 2025
A React component for playing a variety of URLs, including file paths, Mux, YouTube, Vimeo, and Wistia
$ npm install react-player@vidstack/reactv0.6.15, 19 Apr 2024
Build awesome media experiences on the web.
$ npm install @vidstack/react| Metric | react-player | @vidstack/react | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weekly downloads | 2,101,005 | 214,049 | react-player 9.8x higher |
| 12-month download growth | +51% | - | - |
| Gzip size | - | - | - |
| Minified size | - | - | - |
| Dependencies | 10 | 0 | react-player 10 more |
| Unpacked size | 40 kB | 122 kB | react-player 3.1x smaller |
| Latest release | 3.4.0, 13 Nov 2025 | 0.6.15, 19 Apr 2024 | react-player 19 months more recent |
| Releases, last 12 months | 1 | - | - |
| First published | 19 Aug 2015 | - | - |
| GitHub stars | 10,283 | 3,680 | react-player 2.8x higher |
| Open issues | 49 | 145 | @vidstack/react 96 more |
| Open pull requests | 13 | 15 | @vidstack/react 2 more |
| Contributors | - | - | - |
| Commits, last 52 weeks | 4 | 103 | @vidstack/react 25.8x higher |
| TypeScript types | Bundled | Bundled | Same |
| Module format | ESM only | ESM only | Same |
| Runtimes | - | - | - |
| License | MIT | MIT | Same |
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-player2.1m latest week
Week of 23 Sept 2025Week of 15 Sept 2026
react-player
Major versions
- 0.0.119 Aug 2015
- 1.0.017 Jan 2018
- 2.0.025 Apr 2020
- 3.0.027 Jun 2025
Last 5 releases
- 3.4.013 Nov 2025
- 3.3.319 Sept 2025
- 3.3.225 Aug 2025
- 3.3.116 Jul 2025
- 3.3.016 Jul 2025
153 releases in total, 1 in the last 12 months
@vidstack/react
Major versions
- -
Last 5 releases
- -
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@vidstack/react
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@vidstack/react
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- Need no runtime dependencies@vidstack/react (react-player has 10, @vidstack/react has 0)
- Module formatBoth ESM only
- Need TypeScript types in the package itselfBoth
- Node.js version requirementreact-player: none declared; @vidstack/react: >=16 (engines field in package.json)
- Need the more recent releasereact-player (3.4.0 on 13 Nov 2025 vs 0.6.15 on 19 Apr 2024)
- Higher weekly npm downloadsreact-player (2.1m vs 214k)
Each line is generated from the data above.
- @remotion/player vs @vidstack/reactNo search data
react-player: react-player npm registry, react-player npm downloads, react-player GitHub, react-player jsDelivr. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.
Indexability: Indexed.