--- title: Wait… Shadcn Now Has a PDF Library? | daily.dev description: PDFCN is a new open-source library for generating beautifully designed, customizable PDFs in React using shadcn UI components, letting developers reuse... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/7j1s5f3be twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Wait… Shadcn Now Has a PDF Library? | daily.dev og:description: PDFCN is a new open-source library for generating beautifully designed, customizable PDFs in React using shadcn UI components, letting developers reuse... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/7j1s5f3be og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/7J1s5f3Be.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Wait… Shadcn Now Has a PDF Library? **[Horde](https://daily.dev/sources/horde)** · [@orcdev](https://daily.dev/orcdev) · 34 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary PDFCN is a new open-source library for generating beautifully designed, customizable PDFs in React using shadcn UI components, letting developers reuse familiar copy-paste CLI workflows. It supports two rendering engines (Takumi and Forme), includes prebuilt blocks like invoices, multiple themes, and a theme builder. The creator, Aniket, shows how to combine the theme builder URL with AI coding assistants to auto-generate custom-branded PDFs. The project is about a month old and already has 1,500 GitHub stars. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@chenriques** · 5 upvotes > The title is misleading. ShadCN doesn't have a PDF Library since this is not a ShadCN project. This was built by a guy named Aniket Pawar that builts thing on top of the shadcn ecosystem. **@springtofigh** · 3 upvotes > Wow, didn't know about this. ShadeCN makes really good moves. **@dojo60** · 0 upvotes > this is indeed very interesting as something like this could allow a modular, programmatic alternative ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#react](https://daily.dev/tags/react), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#ai-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-coding), [#shadcn](https://daily.dev/tags/shadcn) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/7j1s5f3be) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/7j1s5f3be","headline":"Wait… Shadcn Now Has a PDF Library?","text":"Shared: Wait… Shadcn Now Has a PDF Library?","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/7j1s5f3be","datePublished":"2026-09-10T10:54:48.772Z","dateModified":"2026-09-10T10:55:38.757Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"OrcDev","url":"https://daily.dev/orcdev","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7549148?v=4","description":"YouTube Creator @OrcDev","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"EndorseAction"},"userInteractionCount":56880}},"image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--P4t4XyoV--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2001","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":34},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}],"sharedContent":{"@type":"WebPage","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/VO4slbrrr"},"comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"The title is misleading. 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