Getting started with React Chips component

12 Jul 20243 minutes to read

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

To get start quickly with React Chips, you can check on this video:

Dependencies

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

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

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

To set-up a React application in TypeScript environment, run the following command.

npx create-react-app my-app --template typescript

cd my-app

npm start

To set-up a React application in JavaScript environment, run the following command.

npx create-react-app my-app

cd my-app

npm start

Adding Syncfusion packages

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

To install Chip component, use the following command

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

Adding CSS Reference

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

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

Adding Chip component to the Application

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

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

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

// To render Button.
function App() {
  return (
    <ChipListComponent text="Janet Leverling"></ChipListComponent>
  );
}
export default App;

Running the application

Run the application in the browser using the following command:

npm start

The following example shows a basic Chip component.

app.jsx

import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';
import { ChipListComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons';
import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
enableRipple(true);
// To render Chip.
function App() {
    return (<ChipListComponent text="Janet Leverling"></ChipListComponent>);
}
export default App;
ReactDom.render(<App />, document.getElementById('chip'));

app.tsx

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

enableRipple(true);

// To render Chip.
function App() {
  return (
    <ChipListComponent text="Janet Leverling"></ChipListComponent>
  );
}
export default App;
ReactDom.render(<App />,document.getElementById('chip'));