Getting Started with React Schedule Component in Preact Framework

26 Feb 20264 minutes to read

This article provides a step-by-step guide for setting up a Preact project and integrating the Syncfusion^® React Schedule component.

Preact is a fast and lightweight JavaScript library for building user interfaces. It’s often used as an alternative to larger frameworks like React. The key difference is that Preact is designed to be smaller in size and faster in performance, making it a good choice for projects where file size and load times are critical factors.

Prerequisites

System requirements for Syncfusion^® React UI components

Set up the Preact project

Create a new Preact project using the initialization command:

npm init preact

or

yarn init preact

Using one of the above commands will lead you to set up additional configurations for the project, as below:

Project name

Specify the project name as my-project.

T  Preact - Fast 3kB alternative to React with the same modern API
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*  Project directory:
|  my-project
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Project language

Choose JavaScript as the framework variant to build this Preact project using JavaScript and React.

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*  Project language:
|  > JavaScript
|    TypeScript
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Configuration options

Respond to the following prompts with the default selections:

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*  Use router?
|    Yes / > No
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*  Prerender app (SSG)?
|    Yes / > No
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*  Use ESLint?
|    Yes / > No
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Navigate to project

Once setup is complete, navigate to your project directory:

cd my-project

Now that my-project is ready to run with default settings, let’s add Syncfusion^® components to the project.

Add the Syncfusion^® React packages

Syncfusion^® React component packages are available at npmjs.com.

This article uses the React Schedule component as an example. To use the React Schedule component in the project, the @syncfusion/ej2-react-schedule package needs to be installed using the following command:

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

or

yarn add @syncfusion/ej2-react-schedule

Import Syncfusion^® CSS styles

You can import themes for the Syncfusion^® React component in various ways, such as using CSS or SASS styles from npm packages, CDN, CRG and Theme Studio. Refer to themes topic to know more about built-in themes and different ways to refer to theme’s in a React project.

In this article, the Material 3 theme is applied using CSS styles, which are available in installed packages. The necessary Material 3 CSS styles for the Schedule component and its dependents were imported into the src/style.css file.

~/src/style.css

@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-base/styles/material3.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-buttons/styles/material3.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-calendars/styles/material3.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-dropdowns/styles/material3.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-inputs/styles/material3.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-lists/styles/material3.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-navigations/styles/material3.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-popups/styles/material3.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-splitbuttons/styles/material3.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-react-schedule/styles/material3.css";

The order of importing CSS styles should be in line with its dependency graph.

Add the Syncfusion^® React component

Follow the below steps to add the React Schedule component to your Preact project:

Step 1: Import Schedule components

In the src/index.jsx file, import the necessary Schedule components:

~/src/index.jsx

import { ScheduleComponent, Day, Week, WorkWeek, Month, Agenda, Inject } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-schedule';

Step 2: Define and render the Schedule

Create the Schedule component and inject the required view services.

~/src/index.jsx

import { render } from 'preact';
import { ScheduleComponent, Day, Week, WorkWeek, Month, Agenda, Inject } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-schedule';
import './style.css';

export function App() {

  return (
    <ScheduleComponent>
      <Inject services={[Day, Week, WorkWeek, Month, Agenda]}/>
    </ScheduleComponent>
  );
}

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

Run the project

To run the project, use the following command:

npm run dev

or

yarn run dev

The output will appear as follows:

Please find the sample in this GitHub location

See also

Getting Started with the Syncfusion^® React UI Component