v0.2.0 — First implemented release

pdfnative-react v0.2.0 — First implemented release

This is the first functional release of pdfnative-react, the declarative
React renderer for the pdfnative
PDF engine. (v0.1.0 only reserved the package name.)

Highlights

• Write PDFs as components. A custom React reconciler compiles your JSX tree
  — synchronously, with no DOM — into a pdfnative DocumentParams object and
  renders real PDF bytes.
• Declarative block flow, honestly modelled. Components map 1:1 onto the
  pdfnative blocks. There is intentionally no <View>/flexbox engine.
• Full block coverage: Document, Page, Heading, Paragraph/Text,
  List/Item, Table/Row/Cell, Image, Link, Spacer, PageBreak,
  TableOfContents/Toc, Barcode, Svg, and FormField.
• Four render targets: renderToBytes, renderToBlob, renderToStream
  (true constant-memory streaming), and renderToFile (Node).
• React hooks & preview components: usePdf, usePdfStream, PDFViewer,
  PDFDownloadLink, and BlobProvider — familiar to @react-pdf/renderer
  users for easy migration.
• Token-frugal AI authoring: a compact DocSpec grammar (compileSpec,
  renderSpec*) that compiles to the same PDF as the equivalent JSX, with a
  versioned Draft 2020-12 JSON Schema (docSpecSchema()) for self-validation.
• Exhaustive, type-checked samples/ covering every 0.2.0 capability, plus
  a CycloneDX SBOM attached to each release and provenance-signed npm publishes.
• Typed, tested, tree-shakeable: strict TypeScript, dual ESM + CJS builds,
  source maps, and a tested public surface.

Quick start

npm install pdfnative-react pdfnative react

import { Document, Heading, Paragraph, renderToBytes } from 'pdfnative-react';

const bytes = renderToBytes(
  <Document title="Hello">
    <Heading>Invoice</Heading>
    <Paragraph>Thank you for your business.</Paragraph>
  </Document>,
);

Requirements

• React ^19.0.0
• Node.js >=20

Notes

• React 18 support is planned (see ROADMAP.md).
• See the Knowledge Base for the compile pipeline
  and the react-reconciler version contract.

Full changelog: CHANGELOG.md.