Getting started with React Menu Bar component

09 Jun 2021 / 3 minutes to read

This section explains how to create a simple Menu, and configure its available functionalities in React.

Dependencies

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

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

Setup your development environment

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

To install create-react-app run the following command.

npm install -g create-react-app

Start a new project using create-react-app command as follows

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

cd quickstart

create-react-app quickstart

cd quickstart

‘react-scripts-ts’ is used for creating React app with typescript.

Adding Syncfusion packages

All the available Essential JS 2 packages are published in npmjs.com public registry.

To install Menu component, use the following command

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

The above command installs Menu dependencies which are required to render the component in the React environment.

Adding Style sheet to the Application

Add Menu component’s styles as given below in App.css.

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

Now, you can add Menu component in the application For getting started, add Menu component in src/App.tsx file. Using the following code snippet.

import { MenuComponent, MenuItemModel } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations';
import * as React from 'react';

class App extends React.Component<{}, {}> {
    // Menu items definition
    public menuItems: MenuItemModel[] = [
        {
            items: [
                { text: 'Open' },
                { text: 'Save' },
                { text: 'Exit' }
            ],
            text: 'File'
        },
        {
            items: [
                { text: 'Cut' },
                { text: 'Copy' },
                { text: 'Paste' }
            ],
             text: 'Edit'
        },
        {
            items: [
                { text: 'Toolbar' },
                { text: 'Sidebar' }
            ],
            text: 'View'
        },
        {
            items: [
                { text: 'Spelling & Grammar' },
                { text: 'Customize' },
                { text: 'Options' }
            ],
            text: 'Tools'
        },
        { text: 'Go' },
        { text: 'Help' }
    ];

    public render() {
        return (
            <MenuComponent items={this.menuItems}/>
        );
    }
}

import { MenuComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations';
import * as React from 'react';
class App extends React.Component {
    constructor() {
        super(...arguments);
        // Menu items definition
        this.menuItems = [
            {
                items: [
                    { text: 'Open' },
                    { text: 'Save' },
                    { text: 'Exit' }
                ],
                text: 'File'
            },
            {
                items: [
                    { text: 'Cut' },
                    { text: 'Copy' },
                    { text: 'Paste' }
                ],
                text: 'Edit'
            },
            {
                items: [
                    { text: 'Toolbar' },
                    { text: 'Sidebar' }
                ],
                text: 'View'
            },
            {
                items: [
                    { text: 'Spelling & Grammar' },
                    { text: 'Customize' },
                    { text: 'Options' }
                ],
                text: 'Tools'
            },
            { text: 'Go' },
            { text: 'Help' }
        ];
    }
    render() {
        return (<MenuComponent items={this.menuItems}/>);
    }
}

Run the application

Run the application in the browser using the following command:

npm start

The following example shows a basic Menu component.

Source

Preview

index.tsx

index.html

index.css

index.jsx

import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { MenuComponent, MenuItemModel } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';
enableRipple(true);

class App extends React.Component<{}, {}> {
    // Menu items definition
    public menuItems: MenuItemModel[] = [
        {
            items: [
                { text: 'Open' },
                { text: 'Save' },
                { text: 'Exit' }
            ],
            text: 'File'
        },
        {
            items: [
                { text: 'Cut' },
                { text: 'Copy' },
                { text: 'Paste' }
            ],
            text: 'Edit'
        },
        {
            items: [
                { text: 'Toolbar' },
                { text: 'Sidebar' }
            ],
            text: 'View'
        },
        {
            items: [
                { text: 'Spelling & Grammar' },
                { text: 'Customize' },
                { text: 'Options' }
            ],
            text: 'Tools'
        },
        { text: 'Go' },
        { text: 'Help' }
    ];

    public render() {
        return (
            <MenuComponent items={this.menuItems}/>
        );
    }
}

ReactDom.render(<App />,document.getElementById('element'));

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

<head>
    <title>Syncfusion React ContextMenu</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-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-navigations/styles/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>
</head>

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

</html>

#loader {
	color: #008cff;
	height: 40px;
	left: 45%;
	position: absolute;
	top: 45%;
	width: 30%;
}

body {
	margin-top: 100px;
	text-align: center;
}

import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { MenuComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';
enableRipple(true);
class App extends React.Component {
    constructor() {
        super(...arguments);
        // Menu items definition
        this.menuItems = [
            {
                items: [
                    { text: 'Open' },
                    { text: 'Save' },
                    { text: 'Exit' }
                ],
                text: 'File'
            },
            {
                items: [
                    { text: 'Cut' },
                    { text: 'Copy' },
                    { text: 'Paste' }
                ],
                text: 'Edit'
            },
            {
                items: [
                    { text: 'Toolbar' },
                    { text: 'Sidebar' }
                ],
                text: 'View'
            },
            {
                items: [
                    { text: 'Spelling & Grammar' },
                    { text: 'Customize' },
                    { text: 'Options' }
                ],
                text: 'Tools'
            },
            { text: 'Go' },
            { text: 'Help' }
        ];
    }
    render() {
        return (<MenuComponent items={this.menuItems}/>);
    }
}
ReactDom.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));

This example demonstrates the basic rendering of Menu with items support. For more information about data source support, refer to the Data Source Binding section.