Getting Started in the React Image Editor component

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This section explains how to create and configure a simple React Image Editor component.

To get start quickly with Image Editor Component using React, you can check on this video:

Dependencies

The list of dependencies required to use the Image Editor component in your application is given below:

|-- @syncfusion/ej2-react-image-editor
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-react-base
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-base
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-image-editor
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-inputs
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-buttons
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-navigations
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-popups
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-splitbuttons

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 Image Editor component, use the following command.

   npm install @syncfusion/ej2-react-image-editor --save

Adding CSS reference

Import the Image Editor 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";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-popups/styles/material.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-splitbuttons/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-image-editor/styles/material.css";

Adding Image editor component to the application

To include the Image Editor component in your application import the ImageEditorComponent from ej2-react-image-editor package in App.tsx.

Add the Image Editor component in application as shown in below code example.

import { ImageEditorComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-image-editor';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import * as React from 'react';
import './App.css';

function App() {

  return (
      <div id="container" style=>
        <ImageEditorComponent />
      </div>
  );
}
export default App;

Run 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 Image Editor component.

import { ImageEditorComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-image-editor';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from "react-dom";

export default class App extends React.Component {
    render() {
        return (<div id="wrapperDiv">
            <ImageEditorComponent height="350px" />
        </div>);
    }
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('image-editor'));
import { ImageEditorComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-image-editor';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from "react-dom";

function App() {
  return (
    <div id="wrapperDiv">
      <ImageEditorComponent />
    </div>
  );
}
export default App;

ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('image-editor'));
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <title>Syncfusion React Image Editor</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <meta name="description" content="Essential JS 2 for React Components" />
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/30.1.37/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/30.1.37/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/30.1.37/ej2-splitbuttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/30.1.37/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/30.1.37/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/30.1.37/ej2-navigations/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/30.1.37/ej2-image-editor/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/30.1.37/material.css"rel="stylesheet">
	<link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/systemjs/0.19.38/system.js"></script>
    <script src="systemjs.config.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/syncfusion-helper.js" type ="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
        <div id='image-editor'>
            <div id='loader'>Loading....</div>
        </div>
</body>

</html>

You can also explore our React Image Editor example that shows how to render the Image Editor in React.