react-day-picker VS classnames

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

The component needs the classname dependency and a search icon which I referenced to work. So install the classname package and download the search icon below.

classnames: Makes dynamic CSS class application a breeze. Learn more

But of course, it is a button, so it could have multiple variants: primary and secondary(you can increase the number of customizable params, but we will limit it to 1, variant). To implement this you can use any library for combining classnames, for example, classnames, clsx. Let’s use the classic one, "classnames".

Use classnames and you can comma delimited your class names where needed.

To get started with our image modal implementation, i'll assume you already have a React project set up. For UI i’m using Tailwind CSS. But you can use any UI library as your wish. For the image cropping and rotating functionality, we'll be utilizing the react-easy-crop library. This library provides a simple and intuitive way to crop and interact with images and videos within a React component. We will also use the heroicons and classnames libraries in our tutorial. To install all the libraries and their dependencies, open your terminal and navigate to your project's directory. Run the following command:

Save yourself some headache and use https://github.com/JedWatson/classnames

There is an NPM module called classnames that makes this a bit easier: https://www.npmjs.com/package/classnames

To use the global Tailwind types from styles/cssClasses.d.ts, I've leveraged a lot of work from this post, so credit goes there for a lot of the complex TypeScript wizardry that makes things work. In essence, it builds upon the classnames (or clsx) to provide a helper function that gives us with the type safety we're after. This cleverness means we get type checking that works with whitespace, multiple classes (e.g., "container p-5")and arbitrary values (e.g., "border-[5px]"). The input "container p-5 invalid-class" provides the nifty error message:

but I wouldn't recommend it, because I think the point of using tailwind is to not having to abstract class into component based style. it even better to write tailwind classes into the html directly and to use tailwind-fun sparingly and only if you needed to add logic to your classes. tailwind-fun purpose is more like of https://www.npmjs.com/package/classnames rather than any other css library

Use the classnames library, that way I can group the utility classes together (one line) and break them up into multiple lines, and additionally have some of them be conditional based on variables/parameters;