Getting Started with React Speed Dial Control

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This section explains how to create a simple Speed Dial and demonstrate the basic usage of the Speed Dial component in an React environment.

Dependencies

The list of dependencies required to use the Speed Dial component in your application is given below:

|-- @syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-react-base
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-base
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-buttons

Installation and Configuration

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

 ```bash
   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 Speed Dial component, use the following command

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

Adding Speed Dial component to the Application

To include the Speed Dial component in your application import the SpeedDialComponent from ej2-react-buttons package in App.tsx.

Add the Speed Dial component in application as shown in below code example.

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

{ /* To render Speed Dial. */ }
function App() {
    return (
        <SpeedDialComponent id='speeddial'></SpeedDialComponent>
    );
}
export default App;

Adding CSS Reference

Import the Speed Dial 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-buttons/styles/material.css";

Running the application

Run the application in the browser using the following command:

npm start

The following example shows a basic Speed Dial component.

app.jsx
app.tsx
{ /* 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={{ position: 'relative', minHeight: '350px', border: '1px solid' }}>
      {/* Initialize the SpeedDial component. */}
      <SpeedDialComponent id='speeddial' items={items} content='Edit' target="#targetElement"></SpeedDialComponent>
    </div>);
}
export default App;
ReactDom.render(<App />, document.getElementById('button'));
{/* Import the Speed Dial. */}
import { SpeedDialComponent, SpeedDialItemModel } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';

{/* To render Speed Dial.*/}
function App() {

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

  return (
    <div id="targetElement" style={{position:'relative', minHeight:'350px', border:'1px solid'}}>
      {/* Initialize the SpeedDial component. */}
      <SpeedDialComponent id='speeddial' items={items} content='Edit' target="#targetElement"></SpeedDialComponent>
    </div>
  );
}
export default App;
ReactDom.render(<App />,document.getElementById('button'));