Getting Started

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This section explains how to create a simple Timeline and configure its available functionalities in the React environment.

Dependencies

The following list of dependencies is required to use the Timeline component in your application.

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

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 the create-react-app command as follows

```bash create-react-app quickstart --scripts-version=react-scripts-ts cd quickstart ```
```bash 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 Timeline component, use the following command

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

Adding CSS Reference

Import the Timeline 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-layouts/styles/material.css";

Adding Timeline component to the application

To include the Timeline component in your application, import the TimelineComponent from ej2-react-layouts package in the App.tsx.

To define each item, you can use the ItemDirective tag inside the ItemsDirective tag as shown in below code example.

import { TimelineComponent, ItemsDirective, ItemDirective } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-layouts';
import * as React from "react";
import * as ReactDOM from "react-dom";
import "./App.css";

function App() {
  return (
    <div id='timeline' style={{ height: "350px" }}>
      <TimelineComponent>
          <ItemsDirective>
              <ItemDirective />
              <ItemDirective />
              <ItemDirective />
              <ItemDirective />
          </ItemsDirective>
      </TimelineComponent>
    </div>
  );
}

const root = ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById("element"));
root.render(<App />);

Running the application

Run the application in the browser using the following command:

npm start

The following example shows a basic Timeline component.

import * as React from "react";
import * as ReactDom from "react-dom";
import { TimelineComponent, ItemsDirective, ItemDirective } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-layouts';

function App() {
    return (
        <div id='timeline' style={{ height: "350px" }}>
            <TimelineComponent>
                <ItemsDirective>
                    <ItemDirective />
                    <ItemDirective />
                    <ItemDirective />
                    <ItemDirective />
                </ItemsDirective>
            </TimelineComponent>
        </div>
    );
}
export default App;
ReactDom.render(<App />, document.getElementById("element"));
import * as React from "react";
import * as ReactDom from "react-dom";
import { TimelineComponent, ItemsDirective, ItemDirective } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-layouts';

function App() {
    return (
        <div id='timeline' style={{ height: "320px" }}>
            <TimelineComponent>
                <ItemsDirective>
                    <ItemDirective />
                    <ItemDirective />
                    <ItemDirective />
                    <ItemDirective />
                </ItemsDirective>
            </TimelineComponent>
        </div>
    );
}
export default App;
ReactDom.render(<App />, document.getElementById("element"));
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <title>Syncfusion EJ2 React Timeline Sample</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <meta name="description" content="Essential JS 2 for React Components" />
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/28.1.33/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/28.1.33/ej2-layouts/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/systemjs/0.19.38/system.js"></script>
    <script src="systemjs.config.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/syncfusion-helper.js" type ="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    <div id='element' style="margin-top: 30px;">
        <div id='loader'>Loading....</div>
    </div>
</body>

</html>