react-big-calendar is a powerful and flexible calendar component for React applications. It provides a variety of views (month, week, day, agenda) and supports features like drag-and-drop, event resizing, and custom styling.

What are react-big-calendar's main functionalities?

Month View

Displays events in a monthly grid format. Users can see all events for the month at a glance.

import { Calendar, momentLocalizer } from 'react-big-calendar';
import moment from 'moment';
import 'react-big-calendar/lib/css/react-big-calendar.css';

const localizer = momentLocalizer(moment);

const MyCalendar = ({ events }) => (
  <Calendar
    localizer={localizer}
    events={events}
    startAccessor="start"
    endAccessor="end"
    style={{ height: 500 }}
    views={['month']}
  />
);

Week View

Displays events in a weekly grid format. Users can see all events for the week, including start and end times.

import { Calendar, momentLocalizer } from 'react-big-calendar';
import moment from 'moment';
import 'react-big-calendar/lib/css/react-big-calendar.css';

const localizer = momentLocalizer(moment);

const MyCalendar = ({ events }) => (
  <Calendar
    localizer={localizer}
    events={events}
    startAccessor="start"
    endAccessor="end"
    style={{ height: 500 }}
    views={['week']}
  />
);

Day View

Displays events in a daily grid format. Users can see all events for a single day, including start and end times.

import { Calendar, momentLocalizer } from 'react-big-calendar';
import moment from 'moment';
import 'react-big-calendar/lib/css/react-big-calendar.css';

const localizer = momentLocalizer(moment);

const MyCalendar = ({ events }) => (
  <Calendar
    localizer={localizer}
    events={events}
    startAccessor="start"
    endAccessor="end"
    style={{ height: 500 }}
    views={['day']}
  />
);

Agenda View

Displays events in a list format. Users can see all events in a list, sorted by date and time.

import { Calendar, momentLocalizer } from 'react-big-calendar';
import moment from 'moment';
import 'react-big-calendar/lib/css/react-big-calendar.css';

const localizer = momentLocalizer(moment);

const MyCalendar = ({ events }) => (
  <Calendar
    localizer={localizer}
    events={events}
    startAccessor="start"
    endAccessor="end"
    style={{ height: 500 }}
    views={['agenda']}
  />
);

Drag and Drop

Allows users to drag and drop events to reschedule them. This feature enhances user interaction and flexibility.

import { Calendar, momentLocalizer } from 'react-big-calendar';
import moment from 'moment';
import withDragAndDrop from 'react-big-calendar/lib/addons/dragAndDrop';
import 'react-big-calendar/lib/addons/dragAndDrop/styles.css';
import 'react-big-calendar/lib/css/react-big-calendar.css';

const localizer = momentLocalizer(moment);
const DnDCalendar = withDragAndDrop(Calendar);

const MyCalendar = ({ events, onEventDrop }) => (
  <DnDCalendar
    localizer={localizer}
    events={events}
    startAccessor="start"
    endAccessor="end"
    style={{ height: 500 }}
    onEventDrop={onEventDrop}
  />
);

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react-big-calendar

An event Calendar component built for React. Inspired by Full Calendar.

big calendar is built for modern browsers (read: ie10+) and uses flexbox over the classic tables-ception approach.

DEMO

To run the example locally, git clone, npm install and npm run examples, hosted at localhost:3000.

Use and Setup

npm install react-big-calendar --save

Include react-big-calendar/lib/css/react-big-calendar.css for styles.

Localization and Date Formatting

react-big-calendar includes two options for handling the date formatting and culture localization, dpending on your preference of DateTime libraries. You can use either the Moment.js or Globalize.js localizers.

Regardless of your choice you must choose a localizer to use react-big-calendar.

Moment.js

import BigCalendar from 'react-big-calendar';
import moment from 'moment';

BigCalendar.setLocalizer(
  BigCalendar.momentLocalizer(moment)
);

Globalize.js v0.1.1

import BigCalendar from 'react-big-calendar';
import globalize from 'globalize';

BigCalendar.setLocalizer(
  BigCalendar.globalizeLocalizer(globalize)
);

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Last updated on 03 Sep 2015

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