Getting Started

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The following section explains the required steps to build the ColorPicker component with its basic usage in step-by-step procedure.

Dependencies

The following list of dependencies are required to use the ColorPicker component in your application.

|-- @syncfusion/ej2-react-inputs
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-react-base
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-base
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-inputs
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-popups
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-splitbuttons

Installation and configuration

To easily set up a React application, use create-vite-app, which provides a faster development environment, smaller bundle sizes, and optimized builds compared to traditional tools like create-react-app. For detailed steps, refer to the Vite installation instructions. Vite sets up your environment using JavaScript and optimizes your application for production.

Note: To create a React application using create-react-app, refer to this documentation for more details.

To create a new React application, run the following command.

npm create vite@latest my-app

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

npm create vite@latest my-app -- --template react-ts
cd my-app
npm run dev

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

npm create vite@latest my-app -- --template react
cd my-app
npm run dev

Adding Syncfusion^® packages

All the available Essential^® JS 2 packages are published in npmjs.com public registry.
You can choose the component that you want to install. For this application, we are going to use ColorPicker component.

To install ColorPicker component, use the following command

npm install @syncfusion/ej2-react-inputs –save

Adding CSS reference

Import the ColorPicker 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-inputs/styles/material.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-popups/styles/material.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-splitbuttons/styles/material.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css";

Adding ColorPicker to the application

Now, you can start adding ColorPicker component to the application. We have added ColorPicker component in src/App.tsx file using following code.

import { ColorPickerComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-inputs';
import * as React from "react";
import * as ReactDOM from "react-dom";
import './App.css';
// initializes ColorPicker component
function App() {
    return ( <div style=>
        <div id='container'>
        <div className='wrap'>
            <h4>Choose Color</h4>
            <ColorPickerComponent id='color-picker'/>
        </div>
        </div>
        </div>
    );
};
export default App;

Run the application

Now run the npm run dev command in the console to start the development server. This command compiles your code and serves the application locally, opening it in the browser.

npm run dev

The following example shows the default ColorPicker.

app.jsx
app.tsx
import { ColorPickerComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-inputs';
import * as React from "react";
import * as ReactDOM from "react-dom";
// initializes ColorPicker component.
function App() {
    return (<div id='container'>
        <div className='wrap'>
            <h4>Choose Color</h4>
            <ColorPickerComponent id='color-picker'/>
        </div>
        </div>);
}
;
export default App;
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));
import { ColorPickerComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-inputs';
import * as React from "react";
import * as ReactDOM from "react-dom";

// initializes ColorPicker component.
function App() {
    return (
        <div id='container'>
        <div className='wrap'>
            <h4>Choose Color</h4>
            <ColorPickerComponent id='color-picker'/>
        </div>
        </div>
    );
};
export default App;
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));