Getting Started with React Rating Control
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This section explains how to create a simple Rating and demonstrate the basic usage of the Rating component in an React environment.
Dependencies
The list of dependencies required to use the Rating component in your application is given below:
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-react-inputs
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-react-base
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-inputs
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-base
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-popups
Installation and Configuration
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
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 Rating component, use the following command
npm install @syncfusion/ej2-react-inputs --save
Adding Rating component to the Application
To include the Rating component in your application import the RatingComponent
from ej2-react-inputs
package in App.tsx
.
Add the Rating component in application as shown in below code example.
{ /* Import the Rating.*/ }
import { RatingComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-inputs';
import * as React from 'react';
import './App.css';
{ /* To render Rating. */ }
function App() {
return (
<RatingComponent id='rating'></RatingComponent>
);
}
export default App;
Adding CSS Reference
Import the Rating 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-inputs/styles/material.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-popups/styles/material.css";
Running the application
Run the application in the browser using the following command:
npm start
The following example shows a basic Rating component.
// Import the Rating.
import { RatingComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-inputs';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';
// To render Rating.
function App() {
return (<div className='wrap'>
<RatingComponent id='rating'></RatingComponent>
</div>);
}
export default App;
ReactDom.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));
// Import the Rating.
import { RatingComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-inputs';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';
// To render Rating.
function App() {
return (
<div className='wrap'>
<RatingComponent id='rating'></RatingComponent>
</div>
);
}
export default App;
ReactDom.render(<App />,document.getElementById('element'));
Value
You can set the rating value by using the value
property.
// Import the Rating.
import { RatingComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-inputs';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';
// To render Rating.
function App() {
return (<div className='wrap'>
<RatingComponent id='rating' value={3.0}></RatingComponent>
</div>);
}
export default App;
ReactDom.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));
// Import the Rating.
import { RatingComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-inputs';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';
// To render Rating.
function App() {
return (
<div className='wrap'>
<RatingComponent id='rating' value={3.0}></RatingComponent>
</div>
);
}
export default App;
ReactDom.render(<App />,document.getElementById('element'));