--- title: Free and Open source PDF generation library! | daily.dev description: pdfme is an MIT-licensed TypeScript library for PDF generation that includes a React-based WYSIWYG template editor. It offers JSON-based templates for... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/s6wh2e9bh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Free and Open source PDF generation library! | daily.dev og:description: pdfme is an MIT-licensed TypeScript library for PDF generation that includes a React-based WYSIWYG template editor. It offers JSON-based templates for... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/s6wh2e9bh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/s6WH2e9bH.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. # Free and Open source PDF generation library! **[Ole-Martin](https://daily.dev/sources/xdczd-phg)** · [@ombratteng](https://daily.dev/ombratteng) · 71 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary pdfme is an MIT-licensed TypeScript library for PDF generation that includes a React-based WYSIWYG template editor. It offers JSON-based templates for generating PDFs, creating forms, and viewing documents. The library features high-performance generation (tens to hundreds of milliseconds), framework-agnostic integration written in vanilla JavaScript, and separable components (generation library and UI editor can be used independently). Templates consist of a basePdf and schema, and can be created visually through the designer or used programmatically. ## 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. **@fabianletsch** · 0 upvotes > Wow this is exactly what we need at exactly the right moment ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Lulzx/tinypdf: Minimal PDF creation library. <400 LOC, zero dependencies, makes real PDFs.](https://daily.dev/posts/lulzx-tinypdf-minimal-pdf-creation-library-400-loc-zero-dependencies-makes-real-pdfs--enagb4xyw) · Hacker News · 28 upvotes · 0 comments - [Write PDFs in React. Render them from Go. 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