Getting Started with React OTP Input component

10 Feb 20264 minutes to read

This section explains the steps required to create a simple React OTP Input component and demonstrate its basic usage in a React environment.

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Setup for local development

Easily set up a React application using 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

This command will prompt you for a few settings for the new project, such as selecting a framework and a variant.

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^® OTP Input packages

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

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

The –save will instruct NPM to include the OTP Input package inside of the dependencies section of the package.json.

Adding CSS reference

The following CSS files are available in the ../node_modules/@syncfusion package folder. Add these as references in src/App.css.

@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-base/styles/tailwind3.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-inputs/styles/tailwind3.css";

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

Adding OTP Input component

The React OTP Input component can be added to the application by following these steps. To get started, add the OTP Input component to the src/App.tsx file using the following code.

The following OTP input code should be placed in the src/App.tsx file.

import { OtpInputComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-inputs';
import * as React from 'react';
import './App.css';

function App() {
    return (
        <OtpInputComponent id='otpinput'></OtpInputComponent>
    );
}
export default App;

Run the application

Run the npm run dev command in the terminal to start the development server. This command compiles your code and serves the application locally, opening it in the browser.

npm run dev

The output appears as follows.

index.jsx

// Import the OTP Input.
import { OtpInputComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-inputs';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';
// To render OTP Input.
function App() {
    return (<div id='container'>
            <OtpInputComponent id='otpinput'></OtpInputComponent>
        </div>);
}
export default App;
ReactDom.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));

index.tsx

// Import the OTP Input.
import { OtpInputComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-inputs';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';

// To render OTP Input.
function App() {
  
    return (
        <div id='container'>
            <OtpInputComponent id='otpinput'></OtpInputComponent>
        </div>
    );
}
export default App;
ReactDom.render(<App />,document.getElementById('element'));

Refer to the React OTP Input feature tour page for its groundbreaking feature representations. You can also explore our React OTP Input component example that shows how to render the OTP Input in React.