Getting Started

This section explains how to create a simple Button and to configure the Button component.

Dependencies

The list of dependencies required to use the Button component in your application is given below:

|-- @syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-react-base
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-base
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-buttons

Installation and Configuration

You can use Create-react-app to setup the applications. To install create-react-app run the following command.

npm install -g create-react-app

Start a new project using create-react-app command as follows

create-react-app quickstart --scripts-version=react-scripts-ts

cd quickstart

Adding Syncfusion packages

All the available Essential JS 2 packages are published in npmjs.com public registry.

To install Button component, use the following command

npm install @syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons --save

Adding Button component to the Application

To include the Button component in your application import the ButtonComponent from ej2-react-buttons package in App.tsx.

Add the Button component in application as shown in below code example.

import * as React from 'react';
import './App.css';
// Import the Button.
import { ButtonComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons';

// To render Button.
export default class App extends React.Component<{}, {}> {
  render() {
    return (
      <ButtonComponent>Button</ButtonComponent>
    );
  }
}

Adding CSS Reference

Import the Button component’s required CSS references as follows in src/App.css.

@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-base/styles/material.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css";

Running the application

Run the application in the browser using the following command:

npm start

The following example shows a basic Button component.

Source

Preview

app.tsx

index.html

import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';
import { ButtonComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons';
import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';

enableRipple(true);

// To render Button.
class App extends React.Component<{}, {}> {
  render() {
    return (
      <ButtonComponent>Button</ButtonComponent>
    );
  }
}
ReactDom.render(<App />,document.getElementById('button'));

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <title>Syncfusion React Button</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <meta name="description" content="Essential JS 2 for React Components" />
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion" />
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
	<link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/systemjs/0.19.38/system.js"></script>
    <script src="systemjs.config.js"></script>
</head>

<body>
        <div id='button'>
            <div id='loader'>Loading....</div>
        </div>
</body>

</html>

Change Button type

To change the default Button to flat Button, set the cssClass property to e-flat.