Getting started with React Context menu component

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This section explains how to create a simple ContextMenu and configure its core functionalities in a React application.

Dependencies

The following dependencies are required to use the ContextMenu component:

|-- @syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-react-base
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-navigations
        |-- @syncfusion/ej2-base
        |-- @syncfusion/ej2-data
        |-- @syncfusion/ej2-inputs
        |-- @syncfusion/ej2-lists
        |-- @syncfusion/ej2-popups
            |-- @syncfusion/ej2-buttons

Setup your development environment

To quickly 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.

To install ContextMenu component, use the following command

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

The above command installs ContextMenu dependencies which are required to render the component in the React environment.

Adding Style sheet to the Application

Add ContextMenu component’s styles as given below in App.css.

@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-base/styles/material.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-lists/styles/material.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-popups/styles/material.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-navigations/styles/material.css";

/* Context Menu target */

#target {
    border: 1px dashed;
    height: 150px;
    padding: 10px;
    position: relative;
    text-align: justify;
    color: gray;
    user-select: none;
}

Add ContextMenu to the project

Now, you can add ContextMenu component in the application. For getting started, add ContextMenu component in src/App.tsx file and the options contain menuItems and target in which ContextMenu will be opened. Using the following code snippet.

import { ContextMenuComponent, MenuItemModel } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations';
import * as React from 'react';
import './App.css';

function App() {
  let menuItems: MenuItemModel[] = [
    {
        text: 'Cut'
    },
    {
        text: 'Copy'
    },
    {
        text: 'Paste'
    }];

    return (
      // specifies the tag to render the ContextMenu component
      <div>
        <div id="target">Right click / Touch hold to open the ContextMenu</div>
        <ContextMenuComponent target="#target" items={menuItems} />
      </div>
    );
}
export default App;
import { ContextMenuComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations';
import * as React from 'react';
import './App.css';
function App() {
    let menuItems = [
        {
            text: 'Cut'
        },
        {
            text: 'Copy'
        },
        {
            text: 'Paste'
        }
    ];
    return (
    // specifies the tag to render the ContextMenu component
    <div>
        <div id="target">Right click / Touch hold to open the ContextMenu</div>
        <ContextMenuComponent target="#target" items={menuItems}/>
      </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 a basic ContextMenu component.

import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { ContextMenuComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';
enableRipple(true);
function App() {
    let menuItems = [
        {
            text: 'Cut'
        },
        {
            text: 'Copy'
        },
        {
            text: 'Paste'
        }
    ];
    return (<div className="container">
            <div id='target'>Right click / Touch hold to open the ContextMenu</div>
            <ContextMenuComponent id='contextmenu' target='#target' items={menuItems}/>
          </div>);
}
export default App;
ReactDom.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));
import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { ContextMenuComponent, MenuItemModel } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';

enableRipple(true);

function App() {
  let menuItems: MenuItemModel[] = [
    {
        text: 'Cut'
    },
    {
        text: 'Copy'
    },
    {
        text: 'Paste'
    }];

  return (
          <div className="container">
            <div id='target'>Right click / Touch hold to open the ContextMenu</div>
            <ContextMenuComponent id='contextmenu' target='#target'
            items={menuItems}/>
          </div>
      );
}
export default App;  
ReactDom.render(<App />,document.getElementById('element'));

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