Getting Started with React Floating Action Button Component

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This section explains how to create a simple Floating Action Button and demonstrate the basic usage of the Floating Action Button component in an React environment.

To get start quickly with React Floating Action Button component, you can check on this video:

Dependencies

The list of dependencies required to use the Floating Action Button component in your application is given below:

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

Installation and Configuration

To easily 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 Floating Action Button component, use the following command

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

Adding Floating Action Button Component to the Application

To include the Floating Action Button component in your application import the FabComponent from ej2-react-buttons package in App.tsx.

Add the Floating Action Button component in application as shown in below code example.

{ /* Import the Floating Action Button */ }
import { FabComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons';
import * as React from 'react';
import './App.css';

{ /* To render Floating Action Button. */ }
function App() {
    return (
        <FabComponent id='fab'></FabComponent>
    );
}
export default App;

Adding CSS reference

Import the Floating Action Button component’s required CSS references as follows in src/App.css.

@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-base/styles/material.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css";

Running 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 Floating Action Button component.

import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { FabComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';
enableRipple(true);
function App() {
    return (<div>
            <div id="targetElement" style={{ position: 'relative', minHeight: '350px', border: '1px solid' }}></div>
            {/* To render Floating Action Button with position. */}
            <FabComponent id='fab' content='Add' target='#targetElement'></FabComponent>
        </div>);
}
export default App;
ReactDom.render(<App />, document.getElementById('button'));
import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { FabComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';

enableRipple(true);

function App() {
    return (
        <div>
            <div id="targetElement" style={{ position: 'relative', minHeight: '350px', border: '1px solid' }}></div>
            {/* To render Floating Action Button with position. */ }
            <FabComponent id='fab' content='Add' target='#targetElement'></FabComponent>
        </div>
    );
}
export default App;
ReactDom.render(<App />, document.getElementById('button'));

Click event

The floating action button control triggers the onclick event when you click on the floating action button. You can use this event to perform the required action.

import { FabComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';
function App() {
    function onClick() {
        alert("Edit is clicked!");
    }
    return (<div>
            <div id="targetElement" style={{ position: 'relative', minHeight: '350px', border: '1px solid' }}></div>
            {/* To render Floating Action Button */}
            <FabComponent id='fab' iconCss='e-icons e-edit' content='Edit' onClick={onClick} target='#targetElement'></FabComponent>
        </div>);
}
export default App;
ReactDom.render(<App />, document.getElementById('button'));
import { FabComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';

function App() {

    function onClick(): void {
        alert("Edit is clicked!");
    }

    return (
        <div>
            <div id="targetElement" style={{ position: 'relative', minHeight: '350px', border: '1px solid' }}></div>
            {/* To render Floating Action Button */ }
            <FabComponent id='fab' iconCss='e-icons e-edit' content='Edit' onClick={onClick} target='#targetElement'></FabComponent>
        </div>
    );
}
export default App;
ReactDom.render(<App />, document.getElementById('button'));
/* Represents the styles for loader */
#loader {
  color: #008cff;
  height: 40px;
  left: 45%;
  position: absolute;
  top: 45%;
  width: 30%;
}