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JSON Render PDF
JSON Render PDF
Generate PDF documents from natural language using @json-render/react-pdf. Describe a document or refine examples to create professional PDFs with streaming spec and live preview.
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Problems solved
Technical challenges this implementation handles out of the box.
- Generate PDF documents from natural language with @json-render/react-pdf
- Stream document specs into a live PDF preview
- Constrain outputs to a react-pdf component catalog
Use cases
Products and workflows this pattern is designed to support.
- Invoice generation
- Report creation
- Resume building
- Document automation demos
Setup
Requirements, wiring steps, and what this pattern adds to your project.
Getting started
Pick how you want to pull this pattern in — then wire env vars and routes the same way.
- 1
Install from the preview toolbar
Copy the install command above and run it in your project — Pro patterns include a short-lived token.
- 2
Add environment variables to .env.local
AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY, UPSTASH_REDIS_REST_URL, UPSTASH_REDIS_REST_TOKEN
- 3
Point client fetches at your API routes
Replace preview `/view/.../api/...` paths with `/api/...` in the installed files.
- 4
Customize the agent and tool files
Adapt prompts, tools, and stop conditions for your product — Copy for AI in the toolbar helps seed that work.
- 5
Run your dev server and open the pattern route
Install dependencies if needed, then start the app and verify responses.
Environment variables
Capabilities
AI SDK APIs
streamTextgatewayProviders
Gemini
External services
Upstash
Files added
10 filesapp/page.tsxapp/layout.tsxapp/api/json-render-pdf-generate/route.tsapp/api/pdf/route.tscomponents/json-render-pdf-demo.tsxcomponents/empty-state.tsxlib/catalog.tslib/examples.tslib/rate-limit.tsREADME.md
Dependencies
12 totalnpm packages
8@json-render/core@json-render/react-pdfUpstashAISDKlucide-reactNext.jsReactZod
Registry components
buttonemptyinputscroll-area
Critical files
lib/catalog.tsPDF catalog definitions using defineCatalog with react-pdf components. Exports pdfCatalog for API prompt and rendering.
json-render-pdf-generate/route.tsAPI route for PDF generation. Uses streamText with pdfCatalog.prompt() as system prompt. Includes rate limiting.
Requirements
- Complexity
- Intermediate
- Setup time
- ~5 minutes
- Node
- 24+
- Memory
- 256MB
