react-day-picker

What is react-day-picker?

The react-day-picker package is a flexible date picker component for React applications. It allows users to select dates or ranges of dates within a calendar interface. It is customizable and can be used to create various date-picking experiences in web applications.

What are react-day-picker's main functionalities?

Single Date Selection

This feature allows users to select a single date from the calendar. The 'onDayClick' event handler updates the state with the selected date.

import DayPicker from 'react-day-picker';
import 'react-day-picker/lib/style.css';

function MyDatePicker() {
  const [selectedDay, setSelectedDay] = useState();
  return (
    <DayPicker
      selectedDays={selectedDay}
      onDayClick={(day) => setSelectedDay(day)}
    />
  );
}

Range Selection

This feature enables users to select a range of dates. The 'DateUtils.addDayToRange' function is used to update the range state.

import DayPicker, { DateUtils } from 'react-day-picker';
import 'react-day-picker/lib/style.css';

function MyDateRangePicker() {
  const [range, setRange] = useState({ from: undefined, to: undefined });
  const handleDayClick = (day) => {
    const range = DateUtils.addDayToRange(day, this.state.range);
    setRange(range);
  };
  return (
    <DayPicker
      selectedDays={[range.from, { from: range.from, to: range.to }]}
      onDayClick={handleDayClick}
    />
  );
}

Customization

This feature allows for extensive customization of the calendar's appearance and behavior, including custom class names and replacing default components with custom ones.

import DayPicker from 'react-day-picker';
import 'react-day-picker/lib/style.css';

function MyStyledDatePicker() {
  return (
    <DayPicker
      className='my-custom-class'
      weekdayElement={<div>Custom Weekday</div>}
      navbarElement={<div>Custom Navbar</div>}
    />
  );
}

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README

React DayPicker v8

DayPicker is a date picker component for React.

$ npm install react-day-picker date-fns # using npm
$ yarn add react-day-picker date-fns    # using yarn

Main features

• ☀️ Select days, ranges or whatever
• 🌎 Localizable into any language
• ➡️ Keyboard navigation
• ♿️ WAII-ARIA support
• 🤖 Native TypeScript support
• 🧘‍♀️ using date-fns as date library
• 🗓 Create multiple calendars
• 🎨 Easy to style and customize
• 📄 Native integration with input elements

Documentation

• See ➡️ react-day-picker.js.org for guides, examples and API reference.

Looking for v7 docs? Go to react-day-picker-v7.netlify.app.