Getting Started with React UI Components with Vite

8 Sep 20235 minutes to read

This article provides a step-by-step guide for setting up a Vite project with a JavaScript environment and integrating the Syncfusion React components.

Vite is a build tool and development server for modern web projects. Vite is designed to be fast and lightweight, supporting modern web technologies such as ES modules, TypeScript, JSX, and CSS modules. Vite’s development server uses native ES modules in modern browsers, providing faster startup times and quicker feedback loops during development.

Prerequisites

System requirements for Syncfusion React UI components

Set up the Vite project

To create a new Vite project, use one of the commands that are specific to either NPM or Yarn.

npm create vite@latest

yarn create vite

Using one of the above commands will lead you to set up additional configurations for the project as below:

1.Define the project name: We can specify the name of the project directly. Let’s specify the name of the project as my-project for this article.

? Project name: » my-project

2.Select React as the framework. It will creates a React project.

? Select a framework: » - Use arrow-keys. Return to submit.
  Vanilla
  Vue
> React
  Preact
  Lit
  Svelte
  Others

3.Choose JavaScript as framework variant to build this Vite project using JavaScript and React.

? Select a variant: » - Use arrow-keys. Return to submit.
> JavaScript
  TypeScript
  JavaScript + SWC
  TypeScript + SWC

4.Upon completing the aforementioned steps to create my-project, run the following command to install its dependencies:

cd my-project
npm install

cd my-project
yarn install

Now that my-project is ready to run with default settings, let’s add Syncfusion components to the project.

Add Syncfusion React packages

Syncfusion React component packages are available at npmjs.com. To use Syncfusion React components in the project, install the corresponding npm package.

This article uses the React Grid component as an example. To use the React Grid component in the project, the @syncfusion/ej2-react-grids package needs to be installed using the following command:

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

yarn add @syncfusion/ej2-react-grids

Import Syncfusion CSS styles

You can import themes for the Syncfusion React component in various ways, such as using CSS or SASS styles from npm packages, CDN, CRG and Theme Studio. Refer to themes topic to know more about built-in themes and different ways to refer to theme’s in a React project.

In this article, Material theme is applied using CSS styles, which are available in installed packages. The necessary Material CSS styles for the Grid component and its dependents were imported into the src/App.css file.

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-calendars/styles/material.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-dropdowns/styles/material.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-navigations/styles/material.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-popups/styles/material.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-splitbuttons/styles/material.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-react-grids/styles/material.css";

The order of importing CSS styles should be in line with its dependency graph.

Add Syncfusion React component

Follow the below steps to add the React Grid component to the Vite project:

1.Before adding the Grid component to your markup, import the Grid component in the src/App.jsx file.

App.jsx
import { ColumnDirective, ColumnsDirective, GridComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-grids';

2.Then, define the Grid component with the dataSource property and column definitions. Declare the values for the dataSource property.

App.jsx
import './App.css'
import { ColumnDirective, ColumnsDirective, GridComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-grids';

function App() {
  const data = [
    {
      OrderID: 10248, CustomerID: 'VINET', EmployeeID: 5, ShipCountry: 'France', Freight: 32.38
    },
    {
      OrderID: 10249, CustomerID: 'TOMSP', EmployeeID: 6, ShipCountry: 'Germany', Freight: 11.61
    },
    {
      OrderID: 10250, CustomerID: 'HANAR', EmployeeID: 4, ShipCountry: 'Brazil', Freight: 65.83
    }
  ];
  return (
    <GridComponent dataSource={data}>
      <ColumnsDirective>
          <ColumnDirective field='OrderID' width='100' textAlign="Right"/>
          <ColumnDirective field='CustomerID' width='100'/>
          <ColumnDirective field='EmployeeID' width='100' textAlign="Right"/>
          <ColumnDirective field='Freight' width='100' format="C2" textAlign="Right"/>
          <ColumnDirective field='ShipCountry' width='100'/>
      </ColumnsDirective>
    </GridComponent>
  );
}

export default App;

Run the project

To run the project, use the following command:

npm run dev

yarn run dev

The output will appear as follows:

vite