What is rc-menu?
The rc-menu package is a React component for building menus. It provides a flexible and accessible way to create dropdown, context, and other types of menus in your web application. It supports features like keyboard navigation, animation, and customization through themes.
What are rc-menu's main functionalities?
Basic Menu
This code sample demonstrates how to create a basic menu with three options. When an option is selected, it logs the key of the selected item.
import Menu, { Item as MenuItem } from 'rc-menu';
<Menu onSelect={({ key }) => console.log(key)}>
<MenuItem key="1">Option 1</MenuItem>
<MenuItem key="2">Option 2</MenuItem>
<MenuItem key="3">Option 3</MenuItem>
</Menu>
Sub Menu
This example shows how to create a menu with a sub-menu. The sub-menu contains two options, demonstrating how to nest menus within each other.
import Menu, { SubMenu, Item as MenuItem } from 'rc-menu';
<Menu>
<SubMenu title="Sub Menu">
<MenuItem key="sub1">Option 1</MenuItem>
<MenuItem key="sub2">Option 2</MenuItem>
</SubMenu>
</Menu>
Vertical Menu
This snippet illustrates how to create a vertical menu by setting the mode prop to 'vertical'. It's useful for sidebar navigation.
import Menu, { Item as MenuItem } from 'rc-menu';
<Menu mode="vertical">
<MenuItem key="1">Option 1</MenuItem>
<MenuItem key="2">Option 2</MenuItem>
<MenuItem key="3">Option 3</MenuItem>
</Menu>
Other packages similar to rc-menu
react-bootstrap/Dropdown
Part of the react-bootstrap package, Dropdown provides similar functionality for creating dropdown menus in React applications. It integrates well with Bootstrap's styling but is less flexible than rc-menu when it comes to non-dropdown types of menus.
material-ui/core/Menu
Provided by Material-UI, a popular UI framework for React, this Menu component offers a comprehensive solution for creating menus. It comes with Material Design styling and animations out of the box. Compared to rc-menu, it might offer a more opinionated approach due to its Material Design integration.
antd/Menu
This is a component from Ant Design, a design system containing a set of high-quality React components. The Menu component from Ant Design is similar to rc-menu but comes with Ant Design's design principles and extensive theming capabilities. It's suitable for applications that already use or plan to use Ant Design.