This section explains you the steps required to create a simple DatePicker and demonstrate the basic usage of the DatePicker component.
To get start quickly with React Date Picker, you can check on this video:
The below list of dependencies are required to use the DatePicker component in your application.
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-react-calendars
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-react-base
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-base
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-data
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-calendars
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-inputs
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-splitbuttons
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-lists
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-popups
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-buttonsYou can use create-react-app to setup the applications.
To install create-react-app run the following command.
npm install -g create-react-appReact sample use following commands.create-react-app quickstart --scripts-version=react-scripts-ts
cd quickstartAll 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 DatePicker component.
To install DatePicker component, use the following command
npm install @syncfusion/ej2-react-calendars –saveTo render the DatePicker component, need to import DatePicker and its dependent 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-inputs/styles/material.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-popups/styles/material.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-react-calendars/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.
DatePickerComponent from ej2-react-calendars package in App.tsx.[src/App.tsx]
// import the datepickerComponent
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" />;
}
}Now run the npm start command in the console, it will run your application and open the browser window.
npm startThe below examples shows the basic DatePicker 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'));The following example demonstrates how to set the value, min and max dates on initializing the DatePicker. Here the DatePicker allows to select a date within a range from 9th to 15th in a month of May 2017. To know more about range restriction in DatePicker, please refer this page.
// 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 {
constructor() {
super(...arguments);
// initialize the value, min and max
this.dateValue = new Date('05/11/2017');
this.minDate = new Date('05/09/2017');
this.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'));