Getting Started with React Dashboard Layout

17 Mar 202524 minutes to read

This section explains how to create a simple Dashboard Layout component and its basic usage.

Dependencies

The following list of dependencies is required to use the Dashboard Layout component in your application.

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

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 Dashboard Layout component, use the following command

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

Adding CSS Reference

To render the Dashboard Layout component, need to import Dashboard Layout and its dependent component’s styles as given below in src/App.css.

@import '../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-base/styles/material.css';
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-react-layouts/styles/material.css";

Note: If you want to refer the combined component styles, please make use of our CRG (Custom Resource Generator) in your application.

Add Dashboard Layout to the application

You can render the Dashboard Layout component in the following two ways.

Defined the panels property as the attribute in the HTML element directly.
Using the panels property directly.

Setting the `panels` property using HTML attributes

You can render the Dashboard Layout component by adding the panels property as the attribute to the HTML element. Add the HTML div element with panel definition for Dashboard Layout into your App.tsx file.

[src/App.tsx]

// import the DashboardLayout component
import { DashboardLayoutComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-layouts';
import * as React from 'react';

function App() {
  let cellSpacing: number[] = [5, 5];
  return (
    <div>
      <div className="control-section">
        <DashboardLayoutComponent id='defaultLayout' cellSpacing={cellSpacing} allowResizing={true} columns={5}>
          <div id="one" className="e-panel" data-row="0" data-col="0" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1">
            <span id="close" className="e-template-icon e-clear-icon" />
            <div className="e-panel-container">
              <div className="text-align">0</div>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div id="two" className="e-panel" data-row="1" data-col="0" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="2">
            <span id="close" className="e-template-icon e-clear-icon" />
            <div className="e-panel-container">
              <div className="text-align">1</div>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div id="three" className="e-panel" data-row="0" data-col="1" data-sizex="2" data-sizey="2">
            <span id="close" className="e-template-icon e-clear-icon" />
            <div className="e-panel-container">
              <div className="text-align">2</div>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div id="four" className="e-panel" data-row="2" data-col="1" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1">
            <span id="close" className="e-template-icon e-clear-icon" />
            <div className="e-panel-container">
              <div className="text-align">3</div>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div id="five" className="e-panel" data-row="2" data-col="2" data-sizex="2" data-sizey="1">
            <span id="close" className="e-template-icon e-clear-icon" />
            <div className="e-panel-container">
              <div className="text-align">4</div>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div id="six" className="e-panel" data-row="0" data-col="3" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1">
            <span id="close" className="e-template-icon e-clear-icon" />
            <div className="e-panel-container">
              <div className="text-align">5</div>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div id="seven" className="e-panel" data-row="1" data-col="3" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1">
            <span id="close" className="e-template-icon e-clear-icon" />
            <div className="e-panel-container">
              <div className="text-align">6</div>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div id="eight" className="e-panel" data-row="0" data-col="4" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="3">
            <span id="close" className="e-template-icon e-clear-icon" />
            <div className="e-panel-container">
              <div className="text-align">7</div>
            </div>
          </div>
        </DashboardLayoutComponent>
      </div>
    </div>
  );
}
export default App;

// import the DashboardLayout component
import { DashboardLayoutComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-layouts';
import * as React from 'react';
function App() {
    let cellSpacing = [5, 5];
    return (<div>
      <div className="control-section">
        <DashboardLayoutComponent id='defaultLayout' cellSpacing={cellSpacing} allowResizing={true} columns={5}>
          <div id="one" className="e-panel" data-row="0" data-col="0" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1">
            <span id="close" className="e-template-icon e-clear-icon"/>
            <div className="e-panel-container">
              <div className="text-align">0</div>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div id="two" className="e-panel" data-row="1" data-col="0" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="2">
            <span id="close" className="e-template-icon e-clear-icon"/>
            <div className="e-panel-container">
              <div className="text-align">1</div>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div id="three" className="e-panel" data-row="0" data-col="1" data-sizex="2" data-sizey="2">
            <span id="close" className="e-template-icon e-clear-icon"/>
            <div className="e-panel-container">
              <div className="text-align">2</div>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div id="four" className="e-panel" data-row="2" data-col="1" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1">
            <span id="close" className="e-template-icon e-clear-icon"/>
            <div className="e-panel-container">
              <div className="text-align">3</div>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div id="five" className="e-panel" data-row="2" data-col="2" data-sizex="2" data-sizey="1">
            <span id="close" className="e-template-icon e-clear-icon"/>
            <div className="e-panel-container">
              <div className="text-align">4</div>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div id="six" className="e-panel" data-row="0" data-col="3" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1">
            <span id="close" className="e-template-icon e-clear-icon"/>
            <div className="e-panel-container">
              <div className="text-align">5</div>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div id="seven" className="e-panel" data-row="1" data-col="3" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1">
            <span id="close" className="e-template-icon e-clear-icon"/>
            <div className="e-panel-container">
              <div className="text-align">6</div>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div id="eight" className="e-panel" data-row="0" data-col="4" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="3">
            <span id="close" className="e-template-icon e-clear-icon"/>
            <div className="e-panel-container">
              <div className="text-align">7</div>
            </div>
          </div>
        </DashboardLayoutComponent>
      </div>
    </div>);
}
export default App;

Run the application

Now, use the npm start command to run the application in the browser.

npm start

The following example shows a basic Dashboard Layout by adding the panels property directly into the HTML element.

app.jsx
app.tsx
index.jsx
index.tsx
index.css
index.html
import { DashboardLayoutComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-layouts';
import * as React from 'react';
import './index.css'
function App() {
    const cellSpacing = [5, 5];
    return (<div>
      <div className="control-section">
      <DashboardLayoutComponent id='defaultLayout' cellSpacing={cellSpacing} allowResizing={true} columns={5}>
          <div id="one" className="e-panel" data-row="0" data-col="0" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1">
          <span id="close" className="e-template-icon e-clear-icon"/>
          <div className="e-panel-container">
              <div className="text-align">0</div>
          </div>
          </div>
          <div id="two" className="e-panel" data-row="1" data-col="0" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="2">
          <span id="close" className="e-template-icon e-clear-icon"/>
          <div className="e-panel-container">
              <div className="text-align">1</div>
          </div>
          </div>
          <div id="three" className="e-panel" data-row="0" data-col="1" data-sizex="2" data-sizey="2">
          <span id="close" className="e-template-icon e-clear-icon"/>
          <div className="e-panel-container">
              <div className="text-align">2</div>
          </div>
          </div>
          <div id="four" className="e-panel" data-row="2" data-col="1" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1">
          <span id="close" className="e-template-icon e-clear-icon"/>
          <div className="e-panel-container">
              <div className="text-align">3</div>
          </div>
          </div>
          <div id="five" className="e-panel" data-row="2" data-col="2" data-sizex="2" data-sizey="1">
          <span id="close" className="e-template-icon e-clear-icon"/>
          <div className="e-panel-container">
              <div className="text-align">4</div>
          </div>
          </div>
          <div id="six" className="e-panel" data-row="0" data-col="3" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1">
          <span id="close" className="e-template-icon e-clear-icon"/>
          <div className="e-panel-container">
              <div className="text-align">5</div>
          </div>
          </div>
          <div id="seven" className="e-panel" data-row="1" data-col="3" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1">
          <span id="close" className="e-template-icon e-clear-icon"/>
          <div className="e-panel-container">
              <div className="text-align">6</div>
          </div>
          </div>
          <div id="eight" className="e-panel" data-row="0" data-col="4" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="3">
          <span id="close" className="e-template-icon e-clear-icon"/>
          <div className="e-panel-container">
              <div className="text-align">7</div>
          </div>
          </div>
      </DashboardLayoutComponent>
      </div>
  </div>);
}
export default App;
import { DashboardLayoutComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-layouts';
import * as React from 'react';

function App() {
  const cellSpacing: number[] = [5, 5];
  return (
  <div>
      <div className="control-section">
      <DashboardLayoutComponent id='defaultLayout' cellSpacing={cellSpacing} allowResizing={true} columns={5}>
          <div id="one" className="e-panel" data-row="0" data-col="0" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1">
          <span id="close" className="e-template-icon e-clear-icon" />
          <div className="e-panel-container">
              <div className="text-align">0</div>
          </div>
          </div>
          <div id="two" className="e-panel" data-row="1" data-col="0" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="2">
          <span id="close" className="e-template-icon e-clear-icon" />
          <div className="e-panel-container">
              <div className="text-align">1</div>
          </div>
          </div>
          <div id="three" className="e-panel" data-row="0" data-col="1" data-sizex="2" data-sizey="2">
          <span id="close" className="e-template-icon e-clear-icon" />
          <div className="e-panel-container">
              <div className="text-align">2</div>
          </div>
          </div>
          <div id="four" className="e-panel" data-row="2" data-col="1" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1">
          <span id="close" className="e-template-icon e-clear-icon" />
          <div className="e-panel-container">
              <div className="text-align">3</div>
          </div>
          </div>
          <div id="five" className="e-panel" data-row="2" data-col="2" data-sizex="2" data-sizey="1">
          <span id="close" className="e-template-icon e-clear-icon" />
          <div className="e-panel-container">
              <div className="text-align">4</div>
          </div>
          </div>
          <div id="six" className="e-panel" data-row="0" data-col="3" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1">
          <span id="close" className="e-template-icon e-clear-icon" />
          <div className="e-panel-container">
              <div className="text-align">5</div>
          </div>
          </div>
          <div id="seven" className="e-panel" data-row="1" data-col="3" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1">
          <span id="close" className="e-template-icon e-clear-icon" />
          <div className="e-panel-container">
              <div className="text-align">6</div>
          </div>
          </div>
          <div id="eight" className="e-panel" data-row="0" data-col="4" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="3">
          <span id="close" className="e-template-icon e-clear-icon" />
          <div className="e-panel-container">
              <div className="text-align">7</div>
          </div>
          </div>
      </DashboardLayoutComponent>
      </div>
  </div>
  );
}
export default App;
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import './index.css';
import App from './App';
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('root'));
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import App  from './App';

ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('root'));
#defaultLayout {
    padding: 10px;
}

#defaultLayout .e-panel .e-panel-container {
    vertical-align: middle;
    font-weight: 600;
    font-size: 20px;
    text-align: center;
}

.text-align {
    line-height: 160px;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <title>Syncfusion EJ2 React Dashboard Layout Sample</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="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/29.1.33/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/29.1.33/ej2-react-layouts/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/systemjs/0.19.38/system.js"></script>
    <script src="systemjs.config.js"></script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="App.css">
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/syncfusion-helper.js" type ="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
    <div id='root'>
        <div id='loader'>Loading....</div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

Setting the `panels` property directly

You can render the Dashboard Layout component by using the panels property directly.

[src/App.tsx]

// import the DashboardLayout component
import { DashboardLayoutComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-layouts';
import * as React from 'react';

function App() {
  let cellSpacing: number[] = [5, 5];
  let panels: object[] = [
    { "sizeX": 1, "sizeY": 1, "row": 0, "col": 0, content: '<div class="content">0</div>' },
    { "sizeX": 3, "sizeY": 2, "row": 0, "col": 1, content: '<div class="content">1</div>' },
    { "sizeX": 1, "sizeY": 3, "row": 0, "col": 4, content: '<div class="content">2</div>' },
    { "sizeX": 1, "sizeY": 1, "row": 1, "col": 0, content: '<div class="content">3</div>' },
    { "sizeX": 2, "sizeY": 1, "row": 2, "col": 0, content: '<div class="content">4</div>' },
    { "sizeX": 1, "sizeY": 1, "row": 2, "col": 2, content: '<div class="content">5</div>' },
    { "sizeX": 1, "sizeY": 1, "row": 2, "col": 3, content: '<div class="content">6</div>' }
  ];
  return (
    <div>
      <div className="control-section">
        <DashboardLayoutComponent id='defaultLayout' cellSpacing={cellSpacing} allowResizing={true} panels={panels} columns={5} />
      </div>
    </div>
  );
}
export default App;

// import the DashboardLayout component
import { DashboardLayoutComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-layouts';
import * as React from 'react';
function App() {
    let cellSpacing = [5, 5];
    let panels = [
      { "sizeX": 1, "sizeY": 1, "row": 0, "col": 0, content: '<div class="content">0</div>'},
      { "sizeX": 3, "sizeY": 2, "row": 0, "col": 1, content: '<div class="content">1</div>'},
      { "sizeX": 1, "sizeY": 3, "row": 0, "col": 4, content: '<div class="content">2</div>'},
      { "sizeX": 1, "sizeY": 1, "row": 1, "col": 0, content: '<div class="content">3</div>'},
      { "sizeX": 2, "sizeY": 1, "row": 2, "col": 0, content: '<div class="content">4</div>'},
      { "sizeX": 1, "sizeY": 1, "row": 2, "col": 2, content: '<div class="content">5</div>'},
      { "sizeX": 1, "sizeY": 1, "row": 2, "col": 3, content: '<div class="content">6</div>'}
    ];
    return (<div>
      <div className="control-section">
        <DashboardLayoutComponent id='defaultLayout' cellSpacing={cellSpacing} allowResizing={true} panels={panels} columns={5}/>
      </div>
    </div>);
}
export default App;

The following example shows a basic Dashboard Layout by using the panels property.

app.jsx
app.tsx
index.jsx
index.tsx
index.html
index.css
import { DashboardLayoutComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-layouts';
import * as React from 'react';
function App() {
    const cellSpacing = [5, 5];
    let panels = [
        { "sizeX": 1, "sizeY": 1, "row": 0, "col": 0, content: '<div class="content">0</div>' },
        { "sizeX": 3, "sizeY": 2, "row": 0, "col": 1, content: '<div class="content">1</div>' },
        { "sizeX": 1, "sizeY": 3, "row": 0, "col": 4, content: '<div class="content">2</div>' },
        { "sizeX": 1, "sizeY": 1, "row": 1, "col": 0, content: '<div class="content">3</div>' },
        { "sizeX": 2, "sizeY": 1, "row": 2, "col": 0, content: '<div class="content">4</div>' },
        { "sizeX": 1, "sizeY": 1, "row": 2, "col": 2, content: '<div class="content">5</div>' },
        { "sizeX": 1, "sizeY": 1, "row": 2, "col": 3, content: '<div class="content">6</div>' }
    ];
    return (<div>
      <div className="control-section">
        <DashboardLayoutComponent id='defaultLayout' cellSpacing={cellSpacing} allowResizing={true} panels={panels} columns={5}/>
      </div>
    </div>);
}
export default App;
import { DashboardLayoutComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-layouts';
import * as React from 'react';

function App() {
  const cellSpacing: number[] = [5, 5];
  let panels: object[] = [
    { "sizeX": 1, "sizeY": 1, "row": 0, "col": 0, content: '<div class="content">0</div>' },
    { "sizeX": 3, "sizeY": 2, "row": 0, "col": 1, content: '<div class="content">1</div>' },
    { "sizeX": 1, "sizeY": 3, "row": 0, "col": 4, content: '<div class="content">2</div>' },
    { "sizeX": 1, "sizeY": 1, "row": 1, "col": 0, content: '<div class="content">3</div>' },
    { "sizeX": 2, "sizeY": 1, "row": 2, "col": 0, content: '<div class="content">4</div>' },
    { "sizeX": 1, "sizeY": 1, "row": 2, "col": 2, content: '<div class="content">5</div>' },
    { "sizeX": 1, "sizeY": 1, "row": 2, "col": 3, content: '<div class="content">6</div>' }
  ];
  return (
    <div>
      <div className="control-section">
        <DashboardLayoutComponent id='defaultLayout' cellSpacing={cellSpacing} allowResizing={true} panels={panels} columns={5} />
      </div>
    </div>
  );
}
export default App;
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import './index.css';
import App from './App';
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('root'));
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import App  from './App';

ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('root'));
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <title>Syncfusion EJ2 React Dashboard Layout Sample</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="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/29.1.33/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/29.1.33/ej2-react-layouts/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/systemjs/0.19.38/system.js"></script>
    <script src="systemjs.config.js"></script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="App.css">
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/syncfusion-helper.js" type ="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
    <div id='root'>
        <div id='loader'>Loading....</div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>
#defaultLayout {
    padding: 10px;
}

#defaultLayout .e-panel .e-panel-container {
    vertical-align: middle;
    font-weight: 600;
    font-size: 20px;
    text-align: center;
}

.text-align {
    line-height: 160px;
}

You can refer to our React Dashboard Layout feature tour page for its groundbreaking feature representations. You can also explore our React Dashboard Layout example to knows how to present and manipulate data.