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Getting Started with React DateTimePicker component

10 Feb 20269 minutes to read

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

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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® DateTimePicker packages

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

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

The –save will instruct NPM to include the DateTimePicker 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-lists/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 DateTimePicker component

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

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

[Class-component]

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

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

[Functional-component]

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

function App() {
    return <DateTimePickerComponent id="datetimepicker" />;
}

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 datetimepickercomponent
import { DateTimePickerComponent } 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 <DateTimePickerComponent id="datetimepicker" placeholder="Select a date and time"/>;
    }
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));
// import the datetimepickercomponent
import { DateTimePickerComponent } 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 <DateTimePickerComponent id="datetimepicker" placeholder="Select a date and time"/>;
    }
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));

[Functional-component]

// import the datetimepickercomponent
import { DateTimePickerComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-calendars';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
function App() {
    return <DateTimePickerComponent id="datetimepicker" placeholder="Select a date and time"/>;
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));
// import the datetimepickercomponent
import { DateTimePickerComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-calendars';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';

function App() {
    return <DateTimePickerComponent id="datetimepicker" placeholder="Select a date and time"/>;
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));

Setting the min and max

The minimum and maximum date time can be defined with the help of min and max property. The following example demonstrates to set the min and max on initializing the DateTimePicker. To know more about range restriction in DateTimePicker, please refer this page.

[Class-component]

// import the datetimepicker component
import { DateTimePickerComponent } 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
    minDate = new Date("11/22/2019 12:00 PM");
    maxDate = new Date("11/25/2019 5:00 PM");
    render() {
        return <DateTimePickerComponent id="datetimepicker" min={this.minDate} max={this.maxDate}/>;
    }
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));
// import the datetimepicker component
import {DateTimePickerComponent } 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 minDate: Date = new Date("11/22/2019 12:00 PM");
    private maxDate: Date = new Date("11/25/2019 5:00 PM");

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

[Functional-component]

// import the datetimepicker component
import { DateTimePickerComponent } 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 minDate = new Date("11/22/2019 12:00 PM");
    const maxDate = new Date("11/25/2019 5:00 PM");
    return <DateTimePickerComponent id="datetimepicker" min={minDate} max={maxDate}/>;
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));
// import the datetimepicker component
import {DateTimePickerComponent } 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 minDate: Date = new Date("11/22/2019 12:00 PM");
    const maxDate: Date = new Date("11/25/2019 5:00 PM");
    return <DateTimePickerComponent id="datetimepicker" min={minDate} max={maxDate} />;
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));

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

See Also