Getting Started

27 Jan 202318 minutes to read

This section briefly explains how to create Kanban component and configure its available functionalities in React environment, using Essential JS 2 quickstart seed repository.

Dependencies

The following list of dependencies are required to use the Kanban component in your application.

|-- @syncfusion/ej2-react-kanban
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-base
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-data
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-kanban
        |-- @syncfusion/ej2-layouts
        |-- @syncfusion/ej2-navigations
          |-- @syncfusion/ej2-inputs
            |-- @syncfusion/ej2-splitbuttons
          |-- @syncfusion/ej2-lists
          |-- @syncfusion/ej2-popups
            |-- @syncfusion/ej2-buttons

Installation and configuration

Setup for local development

You can use create-react-app to setup the applications. To install create-react-app run the following command.

npm install -g create-react-app

To setup basic React sample use following commands.

create-react-app quickstart --scripts-version=react-scripts-ts
cd quickstart

create-react-app quickstart
cd quickstart

Adding Syncfusion packages

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

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

Adding CSS reference

Add Kanban component’s styles as given below 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-layouts/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-react-kanban/styles/material.css";

To refer App.css in the application then import it in the src/App.tsx file.

In case, if you want to make use of the combined CSS files of entire components, then you can avail it from the root folder of Essential JS 2 package and reference it with the code shown below.

@import '../../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2/material.css';

Initialize the Kanban

Add the HTML div tag defined with an id attribute in your index.html file, where the kanban element is initialized.

[src/index.html]

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <title>Syncfusion React Kanban</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="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-react-kanban/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/systemjs/0.19.38/system.js"></script>
    <script src="systemjs.config.js"></script>
     <style>
        #loader {
            color: #008cff;
            height: 40px;
            left: 45%;
            position: absolute;
            top: 45%;
            width: 30%;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <!--Element where the Kanban will be rendered-->
    <div id="kanban"></div>
</body>
</html>

Import the Kanban component to your app.tsx file as shown below, and initialize it to the element defined with an id kanban in the index.html file.

import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { KanbanComponent, ColumnsDirective, ColumnDirective } from "@syncfusion/ej2-react-kanban";
function App() {
    return (<KanbanComponent id="kanban" keyField="Status">
        <ColumnsDirective>
          <ColumnDirective headerText="To Do" keyField="Open"/>
          <ColumnDirective headerText="In Progress" keyField="InProgress"/>
          <ColumnDirective headerText="Testing" keyField="Testing"/>
          <ColumnDirective headerText="Done" keyField="Close"/>
        </ColumnsDirective>
    </KanbanComponent>);
}
export default App;
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('kanban'));
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { KanbanComponent, ColumnsDirective, ColumnDirective } from "@syncfusion/ej2-react-kanban";

function App() {
  return (
    <KanbanComponent id="kanban" keyField="Status">
        <ColumnsDirective>
          <ColumnDirective headerText="To Do" keyField="Open" />
          <ColumnDirective headerText="In Progress" keyField="InProgress" />
          <ColumnDirective headerText="Testing" keyField="Testing" />
          <ColumnDirective headerText="Done" keyField="Close" />
        </ColumnsDirective>
    </KanbanComponent>
  );
}
export default App;

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

<head>
    <title>Kanban Columns Header</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <meta name="description" content="Kanban Columns Header" />
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-react-layouts/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-react-navigations/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-react-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-react-dropdowns/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-react-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-react-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-react-kanban/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/systemjs/0.19.38/system.js"></script>
    <script src="systemjs.config.js"></script>
     <style>
        #loader {
            color: #008cff;
            height: 40px;
            left: 45%;
            position: absolute;
            top: 45%;
            width: 30%;
        }
    </style>
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/syncfusion-helper.js" type ="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
        <div id='kanban'>
            <div id='loader'>Loading....</div>
        </div>
</body>

</html>

Now, run the application in the browser using the following command.

npm start

The output will display the kanban header.

Populating cards

To populate the empty Kanban with cards, define the local JSON data or remote data using the dataSource property. To define dataSource, the mandatory fields in JSON object should be relevant to keyField. In the following example, you can see the cards defined with default fields such as ID, Summary, and Status.

import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { extend } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { KanbanComponent, ColumnsDirective, ColumnDirective } from "@syncfusion/ej2-react-kanban";
import { kanbanData } from './datasource';
function App() {
    const data = extend([], kanbanData, null, true);
    return (<KanbanComponent id="kanban" keyField="Status" dataSource={data} cardSettings={{ contentField: "Summary", headerField: "Id" }}>
        <ColumnsDirective>
          <ColumnDirective headerText="To Do" keyField="Open"/>
          <ColumnDirective headerText="In Progress" keyField="InProgress"/>
          <ColumnDirective headerText="Testing" keyField="Testing"/>
          <ColumnDirective headerText="Done" keyField="Close"/>
        </ColumnsDirective>
    </KanbanComponent>);
}
export default App;
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('kanban'));
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { extend } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { KanbanComponent, ColumnsDirective, ColumnDirective } from "@syncfusion/ej2-react-kanban";
import { kanbanData } from './datasource';

function App() {
  const data = extend([], kanbanData, null, true);

  return (
    <KanbanComponent id="kanban" keyField="Status" dataSource={data} cardSettings={{ contentField: "Summary", headerField: "Id" }}>
        <ColumnsDirective>
          <ColumnDirective headerText="To Do" keyField="Open" />
          <ColumnDirective headerText="In Progress" keyField="InProgress" />
          <ColumnDirective headerText="Testing" keyField="Testing" />
          <ColumnDirective headerText="Done" keyField="Close" />
        </ColumnsDirective>
    </KanbanComponent>
  );
}

export default App;

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

<head>
    <title>Kanban Cards</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <meta name="description" content="Kanban Cards" />
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-react-layouts/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-react-navigations/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-react-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-react-dropdowns/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-react-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-react-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-react-kanban/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/systemjs/0.19.38/system.js"></script>
    <script src="systemjs.config.js"></script>
     <style>
        #loader {
            color: #008cff;
            height: 40px;
            left: 45%;
            position: absolute;
            top: 45%;
            width: 30%;
        }
    </style>
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/syncfusion-helper.js" type ="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
        <div id='kanban'>
            <div id='loader'>Loading....</div>
        </div>
</body>

</html>

Enable swimlane

Swimlane can be enabled by mapping the fields swimlaneSettings.keyField to appropriate column name in dataSource. This enables the grouping of the cards based on the mapped column values.

import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { extend } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { KanbanComponent, ColumnsDirective, ColumnDirective } from "@syncfusion/ej2-react-kanban";
import { kanbanData } from './datasource';
function App() {
    const data = extend([], kanbanData, null, true);
    return (<KanbanComponent id="kanban" keyField="Status" dataSource={data} cardSettings={{ contentField: "Summary", headerField: "Id" }} swimlaneSettings={{ keyField: "Assignee" }}>
      <ColumnsDirective>
        <ColumnDirective headerText="To Do" keyField="Open"/>
        <ColumnDirective headerText="In Progress" keyField="InProgress"/>
        <ColumnDirective headerText="Testing" keyField="Testing"/>
        <ColumnDirective headerText="Done" keyField="Close"/>
      </ColumnsDirective>
  </KanbanComponent>);
}
export default App;
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('kanban'));
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { extend } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { KanbanComponent, ColumnsDirective, ColumnDirective } from "@syncfusion/ej2-react-kanban";
import { kanbanData } from './datasource';

function App() {
  const data = extend([], kanbanData, null, true);

  return (
    <KanbanComponent id="kanban" keyField="Status" dataSource={data} cardSettings={{ contentField: "Summary", headerField: "Id" }} swimlaneSettings={{ keyField: "Assignee" }}>
      <ColumnsDirective>
        <ColumnDirective headerText="To Do" keyField="Open" />
        <ColumnDirective headerText="In Progress" keyField="InProgress" />
        <ColumnDirective headerText="Testing" keyField="Testing" />
        <ColumnDirective headerText="Done" keyField="Close" />
      </ColumnsDirective>
  </KanbanComponent>
  );
}

export default App;

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

<head>
    <title>Kanban with Swimlane Rows</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <meta name="description" content="Kanban swimlane rows" />
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-react-layouts/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-react-navigations/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-react-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-react-dropdowns/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-react-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-react-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-react-kanban/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/systemjs/0.19.38/system.js"></script>
    <script src="systemjs.config.js"></script>
     <style>
        #loader {
            color: #008cff;
            height: 40px;
            left: 45%;
            position: absolute;
            top: 45%;
            width: 30%;
        }
    </style>
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/syncfusion-helper.js" type ="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
        <div id='kanban'>
            <div id='loader'>Loading....</div>
        </div>
</body>

</html>