Getting Started with React Speed Dial component

10 Feb 20265 minutes to read

This section explains the steps required to create a simple React Speed Dial 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^® Speed Dial packages

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

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

The –save will instruct NPM to include the Speed Dial 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-buttons/styles/tailwind3.css";

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

Adding Speed Dial component

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

The following speed dial code should be placed in the src/App.tsx file.

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

function App() {
    return (
        <SpeedDialComponent id='speeddial'></SpeedDialComponent>
    );
}
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.

app.jsx

{ /* Import the Speed Dial. */ }
import { SpeedDialComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';
{ /* To render Speed Dial.*/ }
function App() {
  const items = [
    { text: 'Cut' },
    { text: 'Copy' },
    { text: 'Paste' }
  ];
  return (<div id="targetElement" style=>
    {/* Initialize the SpeedDial component. */}
    <SpeedDialComponent id='speeddial' items={items} content='Edit' target="#targetElement"></SpeedDialComponent>
  </div>);
}
export default App;
ReactDom.render(<App />, document.getElementById('button'));

app.tsx

import { SpeedDialComponent, SpeedDialItemModel } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';

function App() {
  const items: SpeedDialItemModel[] = [
    { text: 'Cut' },
    { text: 'Copy' },
    { text: 'Paste' }
  ];

  return (
    <div id="targetElement" style=>
      {/* Initialize the SpeedDial component. */}
      <SpeedDialComponent id='speeddial' items={items} content='Edit' target="#targetElement"></SpeedDialComponent>
    </div>
  );
}
export default App;
ReactDom.render(<App />, document.getElementById('button'));

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