react-datepicker VS react-day-picker

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.

This one I have found to be quite customizable and supports ranges: https://react-day-picker.js.org

So, for instance, https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-day-picker is one I've used, fairly simple to install and configure - if you're doing your frontend using npm and javascript. In fact, that community focuses around frontend webdev, so there are a ton of packages you can just npm install and work practically out of the box.

For date picker, checkout https://github.com/gpbl/react-day-picker, decent documentation, and flexibility

The first thing I did was to look for a date picker library. There were a lot to choose from but I needed one that would look most similar to the theme of the application so my choice went to react-day-picker. The UI looks simple and would be the best fit for Game-night.

At first, I was feeling overly ambitious and thought I could build my own calendar. After reviewing some examples online, I quickly realized it would take a lot of time and work considering the differing days in a month and adding basic functionality. Instead I found a React component, React Day Picker, that could be easily inserted into my application.

I want to render a calendar in my app and highlight certain dates on it. To achieve that I decided to use react-day-picker library.

A calendar heatmap coded using react-day-picker