react-calendar

What is react-calendar?

react-calendar is a flexible and customizable calendar component for React applications. It allows developers to easily integrate a calendar into their projects, providing functionalities such as date selection, navigation between months and years, and customization of calendar appearance.

What are react-calendar's main functionalities?

Basic Calendar

This is the most basic usage of the react-calendar package, rendering a simple calendar component.

<Calendar />

Date Selection

Allows users to select a date. The selected date is managed via state in the parent component.

<Calendar onChange={setDate} value={date} />

Range Selection

Enables users to select a range of dates. The selected range is managed via state in the parent component.

<Calendar selectRange={true} onChange={setDateRange} value={dateRange} />

Custom Tile Content

Allows customization of the content of each tile in the calendar. In this example, a 'Special' label is added to Sundays.

<Calendar tileContent={({ date, view }) => view === 'month' && date.getDay() === 0 ? <p>Special</p> : null} />

Navigation Between Views

Allows setting the default view of the calendar to 'year', 'month', 'decade', or 'century'.

<Calendar defaultView='year' />

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README

React-Calendar

Ultimate date picker for your React application.

tl;dr

• Install by executing npm install react-calendar or yarn add react-calendar.
• Import by adding import Calendar from 'react-calendar'.
• Use by adding <Calendar />. Use onChange prop for getting new values.

Demo

Minimal demo page is included in sample directory.

Online demo is also available!

Getting started

Compatibility

React-Calendar uses modern web technologies. That's why it's so fast, lightweight and easy to style. This, however, comes at a cost of supporting only modern browsers.

Browser	Minimum supported version
Google Chrome	24
Mozilla Firefox	29
Microsoft Edge	12
Apple Safari	10
Apple Safari (iOS)	10.2
Opera	15
Internet Explorer	11
Samsung Internet	4

Legacy browsers

If you need to support legacy browsers like Internet Explorer 10, you will need to use Intl.js or another Intl polyfill along with React-Calendar.

Installation

Add React-Calendar to your project by executing npm install react-calendar or yarn add react-calendar.

Usage

Here's an example of basic usage:

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import Calendar from 'react-calendar';

class MyApp extends Component {
  state = {
    date: new Date(),
  }

  onChange = date => this.setState({ date })

  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        <Calendar
          onChange={this.onChange}
        />
      </div>
    );
  }
}

Custom styling

If you don't want to use default React-Calendar styling to build upon it, you can import React-Calendar by using import Calendar from 'react-calendar/build/entry.nostyle'; instead.

User guide

Calendar

Displays a complete, interactive calendar.

Props

Prop name	Description	Example values
calendarType	Defines which type of calendar should be used. Can be "US" or "ISO 8601". Defaults to "US" for "en-US" locale, "ISO 8601" to all the others.	"ISO 8601"
className	Defines class name(s) that will be added along with "react-calendar" to the main React-Calendar <div> element.	String: "class1 class2" Array of strings: ["class1", "class2 class3"]
locale	Defines which locale should be used by the calendar. Can be any IETF language tag. Defaults to user's browser settings.	"hu-HU"
maxDate	Defines maximum date that the user can select. Periods partially overlapped by maxDate will also be selectable, although react-calendar will ensure that no later date is selected.	Date: new Date()
maxDetail	Defines the most detailed view that the user shall see. View defined here also becomes the one on which clicking an item will select a date and pass it to onChange. Can be "month", "year", "decade" or "century". Defaults to "month".	"month"
minDate	Defines minimum date that the user can select. Periods partially overlapped by minDate will also be selectable, although react-calendar will ensure that no earlier date is selected.	Date: new Date()
minDetail	Defines the least detailed view that the user shall see. Can be "month", "year", "decade" or "century". Defaults to "century".	"century"
nextLabel	Defines the content of the "next" button on the navigation pane. Defaults to "›".	String: "›" React element: <NextIcon />
next2Label	Defines the content of the "next on higher level" button on the navigation pane. Defaults to "»".	String: "»" React element: <DoubleNextIcon />
onChange	Function called when the user clicks an item (day on month view, month on year view and so on) on the most detailed view available.	(value) => alert('New date is: ', value)
onClickDay	Function called when the user clicks a day.	(value) => alert('Clicked day: ', value)
onClickDecade	Function called when the user clicks a decade.	(value) => alert('Clicked decade: ', value)
onClickMonth	Function called when the user clicks a month.	(value) => alert('Clicked month: ', value)
onClickYear	Function called when the user clicks a year.	(value) => alert('Clicked year: ', value)
prevLabel	Defines the content of the "previous" button on the navigation pane. Defaults to "‹".	String: "‹" React element: <PrevousIcon />
prev2Label	Defines the content of the "previous on higher level" button on the navigation pane. Defaults to "«".	String: "«" React element: <DoublePreviousIcon />
renderChildren	Allows to render custom content within a given item (day on month view, month on year view and so on).	({ date, view }) => view === 'month' && date.getDay() === 0 ? <p>It's Sunday!</p> : null
returnValue	Defines which dates shall be passed by the calendar to the onChange function and onClick{Period} functions. Can be "start", "end" or "range". The latter will cause an array with start and end values to be passed. Defaults to "start".	"range"
showNavigation	Defines whether a navigation bar with arrows and title shall be rendered. Defaults to true.	false
showNeighboringMonth	Defines whether days from previous or next month shall be rendered if the month doesn't start on the first day of the week or doesn't end on the last day of the week, respectively. Defaults to true.	false
showWeekNumbers	Defines whether week numbers shall be shown at the left of MonthView or not. Defaults to false.	true
value	Defines the value of the calendar.	Date: new Date() An array of dates: [new Date(2017, 0, 1), new Date(2017, 7, 1)]
view	Determines which calendar view shall be opened initially. Does not disable navigation. Can be "month", "year", "decade" or "century". Defaults to the most detailed view allowed.	"year"

MonthView, YearView, DecadeView, CenturyView

Displays a given month, year, decade and a century, respecitvely.

Props

Prop name	Description	Example values
activeStartDate	The beginning of a period that shall be displayed.	new Date(2017, 0, 1)
maxDate	Defines maximum date that the user can select. Periods partially overlapped by maxDate will also be selectable, although react-calendar will ensure that no later date is selected.	Date: new Date()
minDate	Defines minimum date that the user can select. Periods partially overlapped by minDate will also be selectable, although react-calendar will ensure that no earlier date is selected.	Date: new Date()
onClick	Function called when the user clicks an item (day on month view, month on year view and so on).	(value) => alert('New date is: ', value)
renderChildren	Allows to render custom content within a given item (day on month view, month on year view and so on). Note: For tiles with custom content you might want to set fixed height of react-calendar__tile to ensure consistent layout.	({ date, view }) => view === 'month' && date.getDay() === 0 ? <p>It's Sunday!</p> : null
value	Defines the value of the calendar.	Date: new Date() An array of dates: [new Date(2017, 0, 1), new Date(2017, 7, 1)]

License

The MIT License.

Author

Wojciech Maj [e-mail] http://wojtekmaj.pl