React Event Calendar

React Calendar is a UI component that lets you add calendar and scheduling functionality to your React application.

• Create daily or weekly calendar views

• Display a custom number of days as columns in the calendar

• Customize the appearance using CSS

• Create, move and resize events using drag and drop

• Delete events using a built-in icon

• Easily switch the visible date using a React date picker component

• Define your own business hours

• Translate the calendar automatically by setting a custom locale

• Show resources as columns instead of days

Selected advanced features of the Pro version:

• Display a large number of columns with a fixed width and access them using a horizontal scrollbar

• Group resource headers in a hierarchy of columns

• Display large event data sets - events are rendered progressively as users scroll

• Allow overnight schedules (set custom start and end hour for the vertical axis)

• Export the calendar as image (JPG, PNG, BMP) or document (PDF)

• Use the calendar on mobile devices with touch support

• The calendar can display all-day events in a special column header row

For a timeline view with date/time on the horizontal axis and resources on the vertical axis, see the React Scheduler component.

Open-Source Tutorials

• React Weekly Calendar Tutorial (Open-Source)
  A React project with week view calendar, drag and drop support, custom event CSS, and a date picker.

• React Resource Calendar with Editable Columns (Open-Source)
  How to use the React calendar component to create a scheduling application for multiple groups of resources (locations, people, tools). The resources are displayed as columns.

• Next.js Weekly Calendar (Open-Source)
  How to add a weekly calendar component to your Next.js application.

Tutorials

• React Calendar: Rendering JSX in Events

• React Scheduler with a Vertical Timeline

See all React Calendar and Scheduler Tutorials.

React Calendar Package

DayPilot Lite (Open-Source)

The open-source version of the React Calendar component is available in DayPilot Lite for React (@daypilot/daypilot-lite-react).

npm install @daypilot/daypilot-lite-react

DayPilot Pro

You can get the daypilot-pro-react module at npm.daypilot.org:

npm install https://npm.daypilot.org/daypilot-pro-react/trial/2024.1.5890.tar.gz

React Event Calendar Component

The React event calendar component is available using <DayPilotCalendar> tag:

import React from 'react';

// DayPilot Lite
// import {DayPilotCalendar} from "@daypilot/daypilot-lite-react";

// DayPilot Pro
import {DayPilotCalendar} from "daypilot-pro-react";

const Calendar = () => {
    return (
        <DayPilotCalendar />
    );
}

export default Calendar;

React Calendar Configuration

You can use all standard DayPilot.Calendar properties and events with the React calendar component:

import React from 'react';

// DayPilot Lite
// import {DayPilotCalendar} from "@daypilot/daypilot-lite-react";

// DayPilot Pro
import {DayPilotCalendar} from "daypilot-pro-react";

const Calendar = () => {
    return (
        <DayPilotCalendar 
          viewType="Week"
        />
    );
}

export default Calendar;

Accessing DayPilot.Calendar Object

In order to invoke the calendar component methods, it's necessary to get a DayPilot.Calendar object reference. You can do that using the controlRef attribute:

import React, { useState } from 'react';

// DayPilot Lite
// import { DayPilotCalendar } from "@daypilot/daypilot-lite-react";

// DayPilot Pro
import { DayPilotCalendar } from 'daypilot-pro-react';

const Calendar = () => {
  const [calendar, setCalendar] = useState();

  return (
    <div>
      <DayPilotCalendar viewType={'Week'} controlRef={setCalendar} />
    </div>
  );
};

export default Calendar;

The DayPilot.Calendar object is now accessible using the calendar state variable. You can use it to invoke the DayPilot.Calendar class methods:

import React, { useState } from 'react';

// DayPilot Lite
// import { DayPilotCalendar } from "@daypilot/daypilot-lite-react";

// DayPilot Pro
import { DayPilot, DayPilotCalendar } from 'daypilot-pro-react';

const Calendar = () => {
  const [calendar, setCalendar] = useState();

  return (
    <div>
      <DayPilotCalendar
        viewType={"Week"}
        onTimeRangeSelected={args => {
          const e = {
            start: args.start,
            end: args.end,
            id: DayPilot.guid(),
            text: "Event"
          };
          calendar.events.add(e);
          calendar.clearSelection();
        }}
        controlRef={setCalendar}
      />
    </div>
  );
}

export default Calendar;