Building a better PDF experience in Next.js

[olive summit]

I recently went down a rabbit hole trying to get a performant PDF viewer working with Next.js App Router. Most existing packages are quite bloated or struggle with the SSR/Client boundary.

I ended up building nextjs-pdf-viewer with a focus on:
🛠 Modularity: Kept the core logic separate from the UI so it's easier to maintain.
⚡ Next.js Optimization: Specifically tuned to handle the worker script without custom Webpack configs.
📦 Zero-Config: Works out of the box with npm i nextjs-pdf-viewer.

If anyone is currently building a project that requires document previewing, I’d love to hear your thoughts on the API design and performance.

NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/nextjs-pdf-viewer

[oak echo]

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