react-datepicker VS react-calendar

react-datepicker is a lightweight library with a lot of features.

I have added a date picker to my application. I want to make the selected date section read-only, but when I add readonly to the input, it blocks the entire date picker. I need to do this in css or its component. (without js)

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I searched for alternative date pickers to use in place of the default HTML one. I found out that there is a React Date Picker component that can be used in place of the field.

Exactly. There are tons of different ways to solve that problem in react-date picker, this being one of them: https://reactdatepicker.com/#example-year-dropdown

The trending project I researched and selected is react-datepicker https://github.com/Hacker0x01/react-datepicker/ I chose this project because datetime selection is a hard problem (localization, internationalization, accessibility, time zones, etc.) that we encounter daily, so a good library could be / can be very helpful.

https://reactdatepicker.com/ I’m a rookie intern and was tasked with theming this to the project / brand I’m working for. I personally recommend this.

3. React Calendar

I want to use a Calendar to schedule appointments for my final project. I was using https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-calendar However, I am unable to choose the hour when using this. I also have a hard time disabling the days when an appointment is already scheduled.

npm install react-calendar but I have no idea how to style it, or to give it some color. The instructions in react-calendar - npm do not provide any information about that. I was wondering if anyone that has used this package could help me here. This is the code I have:

You want this React-Calendar

That seems simple enough to do the MVP with vanilla JS (or jQuery if you really want), but if you go the React route you could leverage packages like React calendar or date pickers for booking that could make your life a lot easier. It’ll also be easier to scale once started since you’ll probably want to use some framework after your MVP is built anyway.

Now, here's the thing. I'm the maintainer of many popular React packages, React-PDF, React-Calendar, and React-Date-Picker just to name a few. Professionally, I maintain several large projects, which collectively have more than 30,000 Enzyme-based unit tests.

I was looking for a calendar to use in a React project and found the React-Calendar component. It has all the functionality that I was looking for and saves me a lot of time from building it out on my own. It can be controlled with state so that the selected date(s) can affect what displays in the app. I wanted to customize its styling to fit my project, so here's what I came up with!