Universal Viewer
A community-developed open source project on a mission
to help you share your 📚📜📰📽️📻🗿 with the 🌎
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npm install universalviewer --save
Please note that UV v4 is designed to work on evergreen browsers. If you need IE11 support, please use UV v3.
Microsoft no longer supports IE11, and it's reaching end-of-life on June 15 2022.
🌐 Website
Visit the UV demo page to try it out.
📖 Scope
Read more about the Universal Viewer
💻 Getting Started
See uv-examples for how to set up the UV with plain javascript, or using javascript frameworks.
💻 Contributing
Read below to learn how to take part in improving the UV:
- Fork the repository and run the examples from source
- Get familiar with Code of Conduct
- Read our guide to contributing
- Find an issue to work on and submit a pull request
- First time contributing to open source? Pick a good first issue to get you familiar with GitHub contributing process.
- First time contributing to the UV? Pick a beginner friendly issue to get you familiar with codebase and our contributing process.
- Want to become a Committer? Solve an issue showing that you understand UV objectives and architecture. Here is a good list to start.
- Could not find an issue? Look for bugs, typos, and missing features.


Become a sponsor and join our Steering Group to help guide how our sponsorship funds are allocated.
📖 License
The Universal Viewer is released under the MIT license.
📖 Accessibility Statement
Read our Accessibility Statement
📣 Feedback
Read below how to engage with the UV community:
- Join the discussion on Slack.
- Ask a question, request a new feature and file a bug with GitHub issues.
- Star the repository to show your support ⭐