react-select

What is react-select?

The react-select npm package is a flexible and customizable select input control for React applications. It provides a powerful set of features that allow developers to create simple dropdowns, multi-selects, async data loading, and more, with a focus on accessibility and customizability.

What are react-select's main functionalities?

Basic Single Select

This feature allows you to create a basic single selection dropdown where a user can select one option from a predefined list.

{"import Select from 'react-select';\n\nconst options = [\n  { value: 'chocolate', label: 'Chocolate' },\n  { value: 'strawberry', label: 'Strawberry' },\n  { value: 'vanilla', label: 'Vanilla' }\n];\n\nconst MyComponent = () => (\n  <Select options={options} />\n);"}

Multi-Select

This feature enables users to select multiple options from the dropdown. It is useful for fields that require more than one selection.

{"import Select from 'react-select';\n\nconst options = [\n  { value: 'chocolate', label: 'Chocolate' },\n  { value: 'strawberry', label: 'Strawberry' },\n  { value: 'vanilla', label: 'Vanilla' }\n];\n\nconst MyComponent = () => (\n  <Select isMulti options={options} />\n);"}

Asynchronous Loading

This feature allows for loading options asynchronously, which is useful when the options are not available at initial render time or need to be fetched based on user input.

{"import Select from 'react-select';\nimport AsyncSelect from 'react-select/async';\n\nconst loadOptions = (inputValue, callback) => {\n  setTimeout(() => {\n    callback(filterOptions(inputValue));\n  }, 1000);\n};\n\nconst MyComponent = () => (\n  <AsyncSelect loadOptions={loadOptions} />\n);"}

Creatable Select

This feature allows users to create a new option on the fly if the option they are looking for is not available in the list.

{"import CreatableSelect from 'react-select/creatable';\n\nconst options = [\n  { value: 'chocolate', label: 'Chocolate' },\n  { value: 'strawberry', label: 'Strawberry' },\n  { value: 'vanilla', label: 'Vanilla' }\n];\n\nconst MyComponent = () => (\n  <CreatableSelect isMulti options={options} />\n);"}

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README

React-Select

A Select control built with and for React, initially being developed for use in KeystoneJS.

Demo & Examples

Live demo: jedwatson.github.io/react-select

To build the examples locally, run:

npm install
gulp build-examples

Then open ./examples/public/index.html in a browser.

Project Status

This is currently a work in progress.

It's loosely based on Selectize (in terms of behaviour and user expereience) and React-Autocomplete (as a native React Combobox implemenation), as well as other select controls including Chosen and Select2.

TODO:

• CSS Styles and theme support (in progress)
• Remote options loading (in progress)
• Cleanup of focus state management (in progress)
• Standalone build & publish to Bower (in progress)
• Documentation website (currently just examples)
• Multiselect
• Custom options rendering

Installation

The easiest way to use React-Select is to install it from NPM and include it in your own React build process (using Browserify, etc).

You can also use the standalone build by including dist/select.js and dist/default.css in your page. If you use this, make sure you have already included React and Underscore. (they must be available through a browserify-style require() call, global support is coming soon)

npm install react-select --save

Using the built

Usage

React-Select generates a hidden text field containing the selected value, so you can submit it as part of a standard form.

Options should be provided as an Array of Objects, each with a value and label property for rendering and searching.

var Select = require('react-select');

var options = [
	{ value: 'one', label: 'One' },
	{ value: 'two', label: 'Two' }
];

<Select 
	name="form-field-name"
	value="one"
	options={options}
}>

Async options

If you want to load options asynchronously, instead of providing an options Array, provide a asyncOptions Function.

The function takes two arguments String input, Function callbackand will be called when the input text is changed.

When your async process finishes getting the options, pass them to callback(err, data) in a Object { options: [] }.

The select control will intelligently cache options for input strings that have already been fetched. Async options will still be filtered like the normal options array, so if your async process would only return a smaller set of results for a more specific query, also pass complete: true in the callback object.

Unless you specify the property autoload="false" the control will automatically load the default set of options (i.e. for input: '') when it is mounted.

var Select = require('react-select');

var getOptions = function(input, callback) {
	setTimeout(function() {
		callback(null, {
			options: [
				{ value: 'one', label: 'One' },
				{ value: 'two', label: 'Two' }
			],
			complete: true
		});
	}, 500);
};

<Select 
	name="form-field-name"
	value="one"
	asyncOptions={getOptions}
}>