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Getting Started with React DatePicker component

10 Feb 202610 minutes to read

This section explains the steps required to create a simple React DatePicker component and demonstrate its basic usage in a React environment.

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To get started quickly with React DatePicker, you can watch this video:

Setup for local development

Easily set up a React application using 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

This command will prompt you for a few settings for the new project, such as selecting a framework and a variant.

Initial_setup

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® DatePicker packages

All the available Essential® JS 2 packages are published in the npmjs.com public registry.
To install the DatePicker component, use the following command

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

The –save will instruct NPM to include the DatePicker package inside of the dependencies section of the package.json.

Adding CSS reference

The following CSS files are available in the ../node_modules/@syncfusion package folder. Add these as references in src/App.css.

@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-base/styles/tailwind3.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-buttons/styles/tailwind3.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-inputs/styles/tailwind3.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-popups/styles/tailwind3.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-react-calendars/styles/tailwind3.css";

To refer App.css in the application then import it in the src/App.tsx file.

Adding DatePicker component

The React DatePicker component can be added to the application by following these steps. To get started, add the DatePicker component to the src/App.tsx file using the following code.

The following datepicker code should be placed in the src/App.tsx file.

[Class-component]

import { DatePickerComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-calendars';
import * as React from 'react';
import './App.css';

export default class App extends React.Component<{}, {}> {
  public render() {
    return <DatePickerComponent id="datepicker" />;
  }
}

[Functional-component]

import { DatePickerComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-calendars';
import * as React from 'react';
import './App.css';

export default function App() {
  return <DatePickerComponent id="datepicker" />;
}

Run the application

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

npm run dev

The output appears as follows.

[Class-component]

// import the datepickercomponent
import { DatePickerComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-calendars';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
export default class App extends React.Component {
    render() {
        return <DatePickerComponent id="datepicker" placeholder="Enter date"/>;
    }
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));
// import the datepickercomponent
import { DatePickerComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-calendars';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';

export default class App extends React.Component<{}, {}> {
    public render() {
        return <DatePickerComponent id="datepicker" placeholder="Enter date"/>;
    }
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));

[Functional-component]

// import the datepickercomponent
import { DatePickerComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-calendars';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
function App() {
    return <DatePickerComponent id="datepicker" placeholder="Enter date"/>;
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));
// import the datepickercomponent
import { DatePickerComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-calendars';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';

function App(){
    return <DatePickerComponent id="datepicker" placeholder="Enter date"/>;
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));

Setting the value, min and max dates

The following example demonstrates how to set the value, min, and max dates when initializing the DatePicker.
Here the DatePicker allows selection within a range from the 9th to the 15th of May 2017. To learn more about range restriction in DatePicker, refer this page.

[Class-component]

// import the datepickercomponent
import { DatePickerComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-calendars';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
export default class App extends React.Component {
    // initialize the value, min and max
    dateValue = new Date('05/11/2017');
    minDate = new Date('05/09/2017');
    maxDate = new Date('05/15/2017');
    render() {
        return <DatePickerComponent id="datepicker" value={this.dateValue} min={this.minDate} max={this.maxDate}/>;
    }
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));
// import the datepickercomponent
import { DatePickerComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-calendars';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';

export default class App extends React.Component<{}, {}> {

    // initialize the value, min and max
    private dateValue: Date = new Date('05/11/2017');
    private minDate: Date = new Date('05/09/2017');
    private maxDate: Date = new Date('05/15/2017');

    public render() {
        return <DatePickerComponent id="datepicker" value={this.dateValue} min={this.minDate} max={this.maxDate} />;
    }
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));

[Functional-component]

// import the datepickercomponent
import { DatePickerComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-calendars';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
function App() {
    // initialize the value, min and max
    const dateValue = new Date('05/11/2017');
    const minDate = new Date('05/09/2017');
    const maxDate = new Date('05/15/2017');
    return <DatePickerComponent id="datepicker" value={dateValue} min={minDate} max={maxDate}/>;
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));
// import the datepickercomponent
import { DatePickerComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-calendars';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';

function App() {
    // initialize the value, min and max
    const dateValue: Date = new Date('05/11/2017');
    const minDate: Date = new Date('05/09/2017');
    const maxDate: Date = new Date('05/15/2017');

    return <DatePickerComponent id="datepicker" value={dateValue} min={minDate} max={maxDate} />;
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));

Refer to the React DatePicker feature tour page for its groundbreaking feature representations. You can also explore our React DatePicker component example that shows how to render the DatePicker in React.

See Also