@office-open/docx

@office-open/docx

Generate, parse, and patch .docx documents with a declarative TypeScript API. Works in Node.js and browsers.

Features

• 📄 Document Generation — Create Word documents with sections, headers, footers, and page numbers
• ✍️ Paragraphs & Text — Rich text support with bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, and more
• 📊 Tables — Full table support with merged cells, borders, and styles
• 🖼️ Images — Inline and floating images with sizing, positioning, and wrapping
• 🔗 Hyperlinks — External and internal hyperlinks with custom styling
• 📑 Headers & Footers — First, last, even/odd page headers and footers
• 📋 Lists — Numbered and bulleted lists with multiple levels and custom formats
• 🎨 Styles — Paragraph, character, and table styles with inheritance
• 📖 Table of Contents — Auto-generated table of contents with custom styling
• 📝 Footnotes & Endnotes — Comprehensive footnote and endnote support
• 📈 Charts — Bar, line, pie, area, and scatter charts with customization
• 🔢 Math Equations — Full mathematical equation support via Office MathML (OMML)
• 🧩 SmartArt — Built-in SmartArt graphic generation
• 📚 Bibliography — Source management and citation support
• 💬 Comments — Document comments with author and date tracking
• 📝 Track Revisions — Insertions, deletions, and formatting changes
• 📋 Content Controls — Structured document tags (SDT) for form-like documents
• 📦 Text Boxes — Floating text boxes with content and styling
• ☑️ Checkboxes — Form checkbox support in documents
• 🖌️ DrawingML — Shapes with fills, shadows, effects, and transformations
• 🔤 Custom Fonts — Font embedding and custom font tables
• 🔧 Template Patching — Patch existing DOCX templates via placeholder replacement
• ⚙️ Settings — Comprehensive document settings and compatibility options

Installation

# pnpm
pnpm add @office-open/docx

# npm
npm install @office-open/docx

# yarn
yarn add @office-open/docx

# bun
bun add @office-open/docx

Quick Start

import { generateDocument } from "@office-open/docx";
import { writeFileSync } from "node:fs";

const buffer = await generateDocument({
  sections: [
    {
      children: [
        {
          paragraph: {
            children: ["Hello World", { text: " - Bold text", bold: true }],
          },
        },
      ],
    },
  ],
});

writeFileSync("My Document.docx", buffer);

Examples

Check the demo folder for 100+ working examples covering every feature.

Benchmark

Performance vs original docx (9.6.1) package (higher ops/s is better, Windows 11 / Node 24).

Default = XML DEFLATE level 1 (SuperFast); media is split by type, matching MS Office Word — already-compressed formats (PNG/JPEG/GIF) are STOREd, the rest (EMF/WMF/BMP/TIFF/…) use DEFLATE level 1 (verified on a real MS Office file). All STORE = no compression ({ compression: { xml: 0, media: 0 } }). docx (async only) always uses DEFLATE for ALL entries including images (via JSZip, hardcoded, no STORE option).

// Default (matches MS Office)
await generateDocument(options);
// All STORE (no compression)
await generateDocument(options, { compression: { xml: 0, media: 0 } });

Create + toBuffer (end-to-end)

Scenario	Default sync	Default async	All STORE sync	All STORE async	docx
Simple (2p + 1 img)	1,047 ops/s	605 ops/s	1,444 ops/s	1,448 ops/s	82 ops/s
Styled paragraphs (20) + 1 img	1,133 ops/s	593 ops/s	1,610 ops/s	1,679 ops/s	89 ops/s
Table (10x5)	1,695 ops/s	785 ops/s	4,144 ops/s	3,928 ops/s	239 ops/s
Full featured + 2 imgs	769 ops/s	439 ops/s	785 ops/s	814 ops/s	57 ops/s

Large Files — Create + toBuffer

Scenario	Default sync	Default async	All STORE sync	All STORE async	docx
2000 paragraphs + 20 images	62.7 ops/s	51.9 ops/s	34.7 ops/s	35.2 ops/s	3.0 ops/s
200x10 table	261 ops/s	218 ops/s	271 ops/s	271 ops/s	36.3 ops/s
20 sections x 100p + 40 images	35.8 ops/s	27.1 ops/s	18.0 ops/s	18.7 ops/s	1.8 ops/s

Large File (~100MB) — Mixed Content

500 styled paragraphs + 38 mixed-size images (1-5MB, 100MB total) + 50x10 table.

Scenario	Default sync	Default async	All STORE sync	All STORE async	docx
Mixed (500p+38img+50x10)	9.7 ops/s	8.2 ops/s	5.1 ops/s	4.2 ops/s	0.30 ops/s

License

• MIT © Demo Macro