Creating a Calendar component in React: A Step-by-Step Guide
Create a react app and add these dependencies.
I'm utilizing Tailwind CSS, but feel free to use it as well or create your own styles, styled components, etc.
Lets get the dates in a month.
Each calendar consists of seven days per week and is designed to showcase six weeks. It's acceptable for some of the displayed weeks not to align with the current month.
Let's explore how to retrieve all the dates for a specified month using date-fns
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Our main Calendar component
Lets design our main calendar component. I am using tailwind css, feel free to use it ir create your own styles.
Lets build the Header
We will ad a left arrow
button to move to last month, a label to display month and year
, and a right arrow
button to move to next month
Lets build the body
Now lets create a parent div
with a flex
layout which wraps
and has a width of 48 * 7 cards
= 336px
Putting it all together
Demo
Conclusion
Happy coding.. In next article we will build a calendar year component.