React Component

FullCalendar seamlessly integrates with the React JavaScript framework. It provides a component that exactly matches the functionality of FullCalendar’s standard API.

This package is released under an MIT license, the same license the standard version of FullCalendar uses. Useful links:

Browse the Github repo (please star it!)
Bug report instructions
Example project leveraging Webpack, Babel, and css-loader (the code in this guide loosely follows it)
Runnable project in a code playground

This guide does not go into depth about initializing a React project. Please consult the aforementioned example/runnable projects for that.

The first step is to install the FullCalendar-related dependencies. You’ll need FullCalendar core, the React adapter, and any plugins you plan to use:

npm install --save \
  @fullcalendar/core \
  @fullcalendar/react \
  @fullcalendar/daygrid

You may then begin to write a parent component that leverages the <FullCalendar> component (DemoApp.jsx):

import React from 'react'
import FullCalendar from '@fullcalendar/react' // must go before plugins
import dayGridPlugin from '@fullcalendar/daygrid' // a plugin!

export default class DemoApp extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <FullCalendar
        plugins={[ dayGridPlugin ]}
        initialView="dayGridMonth"
      />
    )
  }
}

You must initialize your calendar with at least one plugin that provides a view!

Props

The <FullCalendar> component is equipped with all of FullCalendar’s options! Just pass them in as props. Example:

<FullCalendar
  plugins={[ dayGridPlugin ]}
  initialView="dayGridMonth"
  weekends={false}
  events={[
    { title: 'event 1', date: '2019-04-01' },
    { title: 'event 2', date: '2019-04-02' }
  ]}
/>

Callbacks

A callback function can be passed into a React component and it will be called when something happens. For example, the dateClick handler is called whenever the user clicks on a date:

import React from 'react'
import FullCalendar from '@fullcalendar/react' // must go before plugins
import dayGridPlugin from '@fullcalendar/daygrid' // a plugin!
import interactionPlugin from "@fullcalendar/interaction" // needed for dayClick

export default class DemoApp extends React.Component {

  render() {
    return (
      <FullCalendar
        plugins={[ dayGridPlugin, interactionPlugin ]}
        dateClick={this.handleDateClick}
      />
    )
  }

  handleDateClick = (arg) => { // bind with an arrow function
    alert(arg.dateStr)
  }

}

Make sure your callbacks methods are bound to your component’s context!

Content Injection

There are many settings throughout the API for injecting custom content, like the eventContent event render hook. The Content Injection article explains the general concept. When you’re using the React connector, it’s possible to return React JSX nodes. Example:

import React from 'react'
import FullCalendar from '@fullcalendar/react' // must go before plugins
import dayGridPlugin from '@fullcalendar/daygrid' // a plugin!

export default class DemoApp extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <FullCalendar
        plugins={[ dayGridPlugin ]}
        eventContent={renderEventContent}
      />
    )
  }
}

function renderEventContent(eventInfo) {
  return (
    <>
      <b>{eventInfo.timeText}</b>
      <i>{eventInfo.event.title}</i>
    </>
  )
}

Custom Views with Components

It’s possible to make calendar views that have custom rendering logic. The Custom Views via JS article explains the general concept. When you’re using the React connector, it’s possible to specify a React component. Example:

import React from 'react';
import { sliceEvents, createPlugin } from '@fullcalendar/core';

class CustomView extends React.Component {

  render(props) {
    let segs = sliceEvents(props, true); // allDay=true

    return (
      <Fragment>
        <div className='view-title'>
          {props.dateProfile.currentRange.start.toUTCString()}
        </div>
        <div className='view-events'>
          {segs.length} events
        </div>
      </Fragment>
    );
  }

}

export default createPlugin({
  views: {
    custom: CustomView
  }
});

Calendar API

Hopefully you won’t need to do it often, but sometimes it’s useful to access the underlying Calendar object for raw data and methods.

This is especially useful for controlling the current date. The initialDate prop will set the initial date of the calendar, but to change it after that, you’ll need to rely on the date navigation methods.

To do something like this, you’ll need to get ahold of the component’s ref (short for “reference”). Once you do that, you call the getApi method of the “current” component instance:

export default class DemoApp extends React.Component {

  calendarRef = React.createRef()

  render() {
    return (
      <FullCalendar ref={this.calendarRef} plugins={[ dayGridPlugin ]} />
    )
  }

  someMethod() {
    let calendarApi = this.calendarRef.current.getApi()
    calendarApi.next()
  }

}

FullCalendar Premium

How do you use FullCalendar Premium’s plugins with React? They are no different than any other plugin. Just follow the same instructions as you did dayGridPlugin in the above example. If you plan to use resources, you’ll need the @fullcalendar/resource package:

npm install --save \
  @fullcalendar/core \
  @fullcalendar/react \
  @fullcalendar/resource \
  @fullcalendar/resource-timeline

Then, initialize your calendar. Make sure to include your schedulerLicenseKey:

import React from 'react'
import FullCalendar from '@fullcalendar/react' // must go before plugins
import resourceTimelinePlugin from '@fullcalendar/resource-timeline' // a plugin!

export default class DemoApp extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <FullCalendar schedulerLicenseKey="XXX" plugins={[ resourceTimelinePlugin ]} />
    )
  }
}

State Management

The above mentioned sample project uses a rather simple technique to store event data: it uses the FullCalendar component itself. It’s possible to share this data with other parts of the application, but it’s often useful to have a more sophisticated setup. For example, if you need access to event data when a FullCalendar component isn’t visible.

Please check out the following example projects that demonstrate usage with third-party state-management libraries:

TypeScript

React works well with TypeScript!

View the React + TypeScript example »

Jest

The FullCalendar React connector works well with Jest but requires a workaround for Jest >=28:

See Also