react-big-calendar

What is react-big-calendar?

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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fullcalendar

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react-calendar

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README

react-big-calendar

An events calendar component built for React and made for modern browsers (read: IE10+) and uses flexbox over the classic tables-ception approach.

DEMO and Docs

Inspired by Full Calendar.

Use and Setup

yarn add react-big-calendar or npm install --save react-big-calendar

Include react-big-calendar/lib/css/react-big-calendar.css for styles, and make sure your calendar's container element has a height, or the calendar won't be visible. To provide your own custom styling, see the Custom Styling topic.

Starters

• react-big-calendar
• react-big-calendar with drag and drop
• react-big-calendar with TypeScript and React hooks bundled with Vite

Run examples locally

$ git clone [e-mail]:jquense/react-big-calendar.git
$ cd react-big-calendar
$ yarn
$ yarn examples

• Open localhost:3000/examples/index.html.

Localization and Date Formatting

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

Regardless of your choice, you must choose a localizer to use this library:

Moment.js

import { Calendar, momentLocalizer } from 'react-big-calendar'
import moment from 'moment'

const localizer = momentLocalizer(moment)

const MyCalendar = props => (
  <div>
    <Calendar
      localizer={localizer}
      events={myEventsList}
      startAccessor="start"
      endAccessor="end"
      style={{ height: 500 }}
    />
  </div>
)

Globalize.js v0.1.1

import { Calendar, globalizeLocalizer } from 'react-big-calendar'
import globalize from 'globalize'

const localizer = globalizeLocalizer(globalize)

const MyCalendar = props => (
  <div>
    <Calendar
      localizer={localizer}
      events={myEventsList}
      startAccessor="start"
      endAccessor="end"
      style={{ height: 500 }}
    />
  </div>
)

date-fns v2

import { Calendar, dateFnsLocalizer } from 'react-big-calendar'
import format from 'date-fns/format'
import parse from 'date-fns/parse'
import startOfWeek from 'date-fns/startOfWeek'
import getDay from 'date-fns/getDay'
import enUS from 'date-fns/locale/en-US'

const locales = {
  'en-US': enUS,
}

const localizer = dateFnsLocalizer({
  format,
  parse,
  startOfWeek,
  getDay,
  locales,
})

const MyCalendar = props => (
  <div>
    <Calendar
      localizer={localizer}
      events={myEventsList}
      startAccessor="start"
      endAccessor="end"
      style={{ height: 500 }}
    />
  </div>
)

Custom Styling

Out of the box, you can include the compiled CSS files and be up and running. But, sometimes, you may want to style Big Calendar to match your application styling. For this reason, SASS files are included with Big Calendar.

  @import 'react-big-calendar/lib/sass/styles';
  @import 'react-big-calendar/lib/addons/dragAndDrop/styles'; // if using DnD

SASS implementation provides a variables file containing color and sizing variables that you can update to fit your application. Note: Changing and/or overriding styles can cause rendering issues with your Big Calendar. Carefully test each change accordingly.

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Changelog

0.40.0 (2022-03-24)

Features

• events: default events prop to an empty array (#2161) (efac0b2), closes #1708