react-dates VS react-day-picker

react-dates An easily internationalizable, mobile-friendly datepicker library for the web.

`ReactDateRangePicker`, gives it's own date picker to use(see ss: https://i.stack.imgur.com/6mkER.png)

This was the case for Airbnb with the popular react-dates project. They tried out solutions and had to change so much code that, at some point, they decided to build their own. The answer to the question of whether to create a component library is, as always, that it depends.

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