React-read-pdf
Chinese Documenta mobile-friendly PDF Reader in browser for React 16.x
Features
- Simple: It is very easy to use
- Mobile-friendly: Support all mobile terminal devices including mobile,pad and others
Browser Support
- IE 10+
- Firefox 3.6+
- Chrome 6+
- Safari 6+
- Opera 11.5+
- iOS Safari 6.1+
- Android Browser 3+
Quick Start
- Import react-read-pdf into your react.js project.
(You should import react firt,The version of react must be more than 16.x)
Using build tools:
npm install --save react-read-pdf
Using PDFReader in PC:
import React from 'react';
import { PDFReader } from 'react-read-pdf';
Using MobilePDFReader in mobile terminal devices:
import React from 'react';
import { MobilePDFReader } from 'react-read-pdf';
- Now you have it. The simplest usage:
import { MobilePDFReader } from 'react-read-pdf';
export default class Test extends Component{
render(){
return <div style={{overflow:'scroll',height:600}}>
<MobilePDFReader url="http://localhost:3000/test.pdf"/>
</div>
}
}
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import Test from './test'
ReactDOM.render(<Test />, document.getElementById('root'));
It supports all mobile terminal devices including mobile,pad and others,the next image is a lively example in iphoneX

Documentation
react-read-pdf mainly consists of two different components.
PDFReader and MobilePDFReader.🌱 PDFReader
import { PDFReader } from 'react-read-pdf'
...
<PDFReader url={"http://localhost:3000/test.pdf"} ...>
Props in PDFReader Component
<tr>
<th>Props name</th>
<th>Type</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>url</th>
<th>string | object</th>
<th>if url is a string, it represents absolute address or relative address of PDF files. if url is a object, you can see this <a href="#url">url object type </a> for details</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>data</th>
<th>string</th>
<th>binary-like data of PDF.For example,in javascript, you can use the method "atob" to convert base64 encoded PDF to binary-like data. </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>page</th>
<th>number</th>
<th>default value is 1 ,decides that which page to show in PDF file.</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>scale</th>
<th>number</th>
<th>decides the viewport in render</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>width</th>
<th>number</th>
<th>decides the width of viewport</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>showAllPage</th>
<th>boolean</th>
<th>default value is false , if it is true , it will render all pages of the pdf file. if it is false ,it will only show the "currentPage" according to the page props's value.</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>onDocumentComplete</th>
<th>function</th>
<th>after load the PDF file, in this function ,you can get some informations of the PDF file you can see this <a href="#function1">function type</a> for details</th>
</tr>
</table>
url
the url property of PDFReader
Type:
- string : it represents absolute address or relative address of PDF files
- object :
Properties:
Property Name| type |Description
--- | --- | ---
url | string | it represents absolute address or relative address of PDF files
withCredentials | boolean | is allow requests to carry cookie or not
onDocumentComplete
the onDocumentComplete property of PDFReader
Type:
- function(totalPage)
onDocumentComplete's type is a function, the fisrt default parameter is totalPage of the PDF file
Notes
The url of props can be string or object.
The following two ways are the same.
One is :
<MobilePDFReader url="http://localhost:3000/test.pdf"/>
the other is :
<MobilePDFReader url={url:"http://localhost:3000/test.pdf"}/>
🌱 MobilePDFReader
import { MobilePDFReader } from 'react-read-pdf'
...
<MobilePDFReader url={"http://localhost:3000/test.pdf"} ...>
Props in MobilePDFReader Component
<tr>
<th>Props name</th>
<th>Type</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>url</th>
<th>string | object</th>
<th>it represents absolute address or relative address of PDF files.</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>page</th>
<th>number</th>
<th>default value is 1 ,decides that which page to show in PDF file.</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>scale</th>
<th>'auto' | number</th>
<th>defaut value is 'auto', react-react-pdf use pdfjs-viewer,so if the scale is 'auto' , it can Adaptive mobile device .This property decides the viewport in render</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>minScale</th>
<th>number</th>
<th>defaut value is 0.25, decides the minimum value of scale</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>maxScale</th>
<th>number</th>
<th>defaut value is 10, decides the max value of scale</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>isShowHeader</th>
<th>boolean</th>
<th>defaut value is true, in order to show lively example.'react-react-pdf' added default style to special header, you can remove this style ,if you change this value to false</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>isShowFooter</th>
<th>boolean</th>
<th>defaut value is true, in order to show lively example.'react-react-pdf' added default style to special footer, you can remove this style ,if you change this value to false</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>onDocumentComplete</th>
<th>function</th>
<th>after load the PDF file, in this function ,you can get some informations of the PDF file you can see this <a href="#function2">function type</a> for details</th>
</tr>
</table>
onDocumentComplete
the onDocumentComplete property of MobilePDFReader
Type:
- function(totalPage,title,otherObj)
Properties:
Property Name| type |Description
--- | --- | ---
totalPage | number | the totalPage of the PDF file
title | title | the title of the PDF file
otherObj | object | other coding information of the PDF fileNotes
I strongly recommend you to set initial value of scale is 'auto',the default is 'auto' too
Development
Webpack (4.x)Typescript (3.x)Hot Module Replacement (HMR) using React Hot Loader (4.x)Babel (7.x)Less React-css-modulesusing css-modulesJest - Testing framework for React applicationsProduction build scriptImage loading/minification using Image Webpack LoaderTypescript compiling using Typescript Loader (5.x)Code quality (linting) for Typescript and LESS/CSS.Installation
- Clone/download repo
yarn install
(or npm install
for npm)
Usage
Development
yarn run start-dev
- Build app continuously (HMR enabled)
- App served @
http://localhost:8080
Production
yarn run start-prod
- Build app once (HMR disabled)
- App served @
http://localhost:3000
All commands
Command | Description
--- | ---
yarn run start-dev
| Build app continuously (HMR enabled) and serve @ http://localhost:8080
yarn run start-prod
| Build app once (HMR disabled) and serve @ http://localhost:3000
yarn run build
| Build app to /dist/
yarn run test
| Run tests
yarn run lint
| Run Typescript and SASS linter
yarn run lint:ts
| Run Typescript linter
yarn run lint:sass
| Run SASS linter
yarn run start
| (alias of yarn run start-dev
)
Note: replace yarn
with npm
if you use npm.
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