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Fast and accurate React renderer for Notion. TS batteries included. ⚡️

• Contents
• Advice
• Features
• Usage
• Styles
• Optional Components
• Private Pages
• Next.js Examples
• Packages
• Supported Blocks
• Performance
• Related
• Contributing
• License

If you want more control over your website via React, then we recommend checking out the accompanying Next.js starter kit, which is free and uses react-notion-x under the hood.

And if you want even more control, then you're in the right place! 👇👇

• 🚀 Simple - TypeScript + React
• ⚡ Fast - 10-100x faster than Notion
  • 95-100% Lighthouse scores
  • Heavier components can be loaded lazily via next/dynamic
• 💯 Tests - Comes with a comprehensive test suite covering most of Notion's functionality
• 🔥 Solid - Used in production by tens of thousands of websites
• 💪 Smooth - Supports next/image along with LQIP preview images (demo)
• Framework agnostic - Use with next.js, vite, remix, etc

First you'll want to fetch the content for a Notion page:

import { NotionAPI } from 'notion-client'

const notion = new NotionAPI()

const recordMap = await notion.getPage('067dd719a912471ea9a3ac10710e7fdf')

Once you have the data for a Notion page, you can render it via React:

import React from 'react'
import { NotionRenderer } from 'react-notion-x'

export default ({ recordMap }) => (
  <NotionRenderer recordMap={recordMap} fullPage={true} darkMode={false} />
)

Note: for heavier blocks, you'll have to opt into using them via NotionRenderer.components. These are not included in the default NotionRenderer export because they're too heavyweight for many use cases.

You'll need to import some CSS styles as well. If you're using Next.js, we recommend you place these imports at the top of pages/_app.js:

// core styles shared by all of react-notion-x (required)
import 'react-notion-x/styles.css'

// used for code syntax highlighting (optional)
import 'prismjs/themes/prism-tomorrow.css'

// used for rendering equations (optional)
import 'katex/dist/katex.min.css'

The default imports from react-notion-x strive to be as lightweight as possible. Most blocks will render just fine, but some larger blocks like PDFs and collection views (database views) are not included by default.

To use them, you'll need to import the ones you want from react-notion-x/third-party/*:

import { Code } from 'react-notion-x/third-party/code'
import { Collection } from 'react-notion-x/third-party/collection'
import { Equation } from 'react-notion-x/third-party/equation'
import { Modal } from 'react-notion-x/third-party/modal'
import { Pdf } from 'react-notion-x/third-party/pdf'

Note that we strongly recommend lazy-loading these components unless you know you'll need them up front for your use case.

If you're using Next.js, you can use next/dynamic to lazily load them. If your notion content doesn't use one of these heavyweight components, then it won't get loaded into your page. This keeps the initial page bundle small and your website feeling snappy.

import dynamic from 'next/dynamic'

const Code = dynamic(() =>
  import('react-notion-x/third-party/code').then((m) => m.Code)
)
const Collection = dynamic(() =>
  import('react-notion-x/third-party/collection').then((m) => m.Collection)
)
const Equation = dynamic(() =>
  import('react-notion-x/third-party/equation').then((m) => m.Equation)
)
const Pdf = dynamic(
  () => import('react-notion-x/third-party/pdf').then((m) => m.Pdf),
  {
    ssr: false
  }
)
const Modal = dynamic(
  () => import('react-notion-x/third-party/modal').then((m) => m.Modal),
  {
    ssr: false
  }
)

You'll need to enable them by passing them to the components prop of NotionRenderer.

export default ({ recordMap }) => (
  <NotionRenderer
    recordMap={recordMap}
    components={{
      Code,
      Collection,
      Equation,
      Modal,
      Pdf
    }}
  />
)

The Code component uses Prism under the hood. It comes bundled with support for JavaScript, TypeScript, and CSS by default. To add support for additional language syntaxes, follow the example in components/NotionPage.tsx which lazily loads Prism components at runtime. You will likely want to add prismjs to your project as a dependency when using the Code component so TypeScript doesn't complain.

For Equation support, you'll need to import the katex CSS styles.

For each of these optional components, make sure you're also importing the relevant third-party CSS if needed (above).

You may optionally pass an authToken and activeUser to the API if you want to access private Notion pages. Both can be retrieved from your web browser. Once you are viewing your workpace, open your Development Tools > Application > Cookie > and Copy the token_v2 and notion_user_id. Respectively, activeUser: notion_user_id, authToken: token_v2.

We recommend storing these as environment variables and passing them into the NotionAPI constructor as follows:

const notion = new NotionAPI({
  activeUser: process.env.NOTION_ACTIVE_USER,
  authToken: process.env.NOTION_TOKEN_V2
})

Note that this is not the same as the API token provided by the official Notion API since notion-client uses the unofficial Notion API (which is what all Notion apps use).

Here's a minimal Next.js example project with the most important code in pages/[pageId].tsx and components/NotionPage.tsx. You can view this example live on Vercel.

Here's a more full-featured Next.js example project with the most important code in pages/[pageId].tsx and components/NotionPage.tsx. You can view this example live on Vercel.

The full-featured demo adds a few nice features:

• Uses next/image to serve optimal images
• Uses preview images generated via lqip-modern
• Lazily bundles larger optional components via next/dynamic
  • Code
  • Equation
  • Pdf
  • Modal
  • Collection (e.g., notion databases including table and gallery views)

For a production example, check out the Next.js Notion Starter Kit, which uses react-notion-x under the hood.

Package	NPM	Environment	Description
react-notion-x		Browser + SSR	Fast React renderer for Notion.
notion-client		Server-side*	Robust TypeScript client for the Notion API.
notion-types		Universal	Core Notion TypeScript types.
notion-utils		Universal	Useful utilities for working with Notion data.
notion-compat		Server-side	Compatibility layer between the official Notion API and unofficial private API.
notion-x-to-md		Universal	Converts a Notion page to Markdown. Very useful for LLMs.

* Notion's API should not be called from client-side browsers due to CORS restrictions. notion-client is compatible with Node.js, Bun, Deno, CF workers, etc.

The majority of Notion blocks and collection views are fully supported.

Please let us know if you find any issues or missing blocks.

All known blocks and most known configuration settings can be found in our test suite.

Google Lighthouse scores for an example page rendered by `react-notion-x` on Vercel.

bundlephobia minzip

Out of the box, react-notion-x is pretty fast and relatively lightweight, but there are a few key factors to be aware of.

Bundlephobia reports a ~31kb gzip bundle size for the main react-notion-x bundle. This doesn't include the optional third-party components which we recommend lazy loading via next/dynamic only if a page needs them.

Another major factor for perf comes from images hosted by Notion. They're generally unoptimized, improperly sized, and not cacheable because Notion has to deal with fine-grained access control that users can change at any time. You can override the default mapImageUrl function on NotionRenderer to add caching via a CDN like Cloudflare Workers, which is what Notion X does for optimal page load speeds.

For public pages, the default mapper turns Notion-hosted image sources into stable app.notion.com/image proxy URLs. It intentionally does not embed the temporary URLs from recordMap.signed_urls, so a cached page does not break when those signatures expire. If you use next/image, allow app.notion.com in images.remotePatterns (as shown in the examples). Private-page images still require signed URLs; re-fetch private record maps before their signatures expire or proxy them through an authenticated CDN you control.

Custom mapImageUrl functions receive the same access-aware input: stable proxy URLs for public Notion assets and signatures that are not known to be expired for private assets. This keeps identity and CDN mappers from accidentally caching an expiring public Notion URL.

NotionRenderer also supports lazy image loading with optional low quality image placeholder previews. You can see a demo of this in practice on this page which is using lqip-modern to pre-generate placeholder images that are inspired by Medium.com's image loading.

If you're using Next.js, we recommend passing next/image and next/link to the renderer as follows:

import Image from 'next/image'
import Link from 'next/link'

export default ({ recordMap }) => (
  <NotionRenderer
    recordMap={recordMap}
    components={{
      nextImage: Image,
      nextLink: Link
    }}
  />
)

This wraps these next.js components in a compatability layer so NotionRenderer can use them the same as their non-next.js equivalents <img> and <a>.

Note that custom image component is currently only enabled with preview image or by turning on forceCustomImages of NotionRenderer.

• Next.js Template - The easiest way to deploy a self-hosted Notion site with Next.js and Vercel.
  • Only takes a few minutes to setup!
  • Uses react-notion-x under the hood
• Notion Test Suite - Comprehensive suite of Notion test pages
• react-notion
  • react-notion-x started as a fork of react-notion with better support for different types of Notion content (especially collections) and grew into something much more comprehensive
  • react-notion is no longer actively maintained

See the contribution guide and join our amazing list of contributors!

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