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Chetan Rohilla
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Create Date Range Picker in React

Date range picker component creates a dropdown menu or calendar from which a user can select a range of dates.

Date Range Picker Component in React

First we will create basic functional components required in our date range picker like Heading, Day, Days. So, create file date-range-picker-components.js in your project.

const Heading = ({date, changeMonth, resetDate}) => ( <nav className="daterangepicker--nav"> <a onClick={() => changeMonth(date.month() - 1)}>&#8249;</a>  <h1 onClick={() => resetDate()}>{date.format('MMMM')} <small>{date.format('YYYY')}</small></h1> <a onClick={() => changeMonth(date.month() + 1)}>&#8250;</a>  </nav> ); const Day = ({currentDate, date, startDate, endDate, onClick}) => { let className = []; if (moment().isSame(date, 'day')) { className.push('active'); } if (date.isSame(startDate, 'day')) { className.push('start'); } if (date.isBetween(startDate, endDate, 'day')) { className.push('between'); } if (date.isSame(endDate, 'day')) { className.push('end'); } if (! date.isSame(currentDate, 'month')) { className.push('muted'); } return ( <span onClick={() => onClick(date)} currentDate={date} className={className.join(' ')}>{date.date()}</span>  ) }; const Days = ({date, startDate, endDate, onClick}) => { const thisDate = moment(date); const daysInMonth = moment(date).daysInMonth(); const firstDayDate = moment(date).startOf('month'); const previousMonth = moment(date).subtract(1, 'month'); const previousMonthDays = previousMonth.daysInMonth(); const nextsMonth = moment(date).add(1, 'month'); let days = []; let labels = []; for (let i = 1; i <= 7; i++) { labels.push(<span className="label">{moment().day(i).format('ddd')}</span>);  } for (let i = firstDayDate.day(); i > 1; i--) { previousMonth.date(previousMonthDays - i + 2); days.push( <Day key={moment(previousMonth).format('DD MM YYYY')} onClick={(date) => onClick(date)} currentDate={date} date={moment(previousMonth)} startDate={startDate} endDate={endDate} />  ); } for (let i = 1; i <= daysInMonth; i++) { thisDate.date(i); days.push( <Day key={moment(thisDate).format('DD MM YYYY')} onClick={(date) => onClick(date)} currentDate={date} date={moment(thisDate)} startDate={startDate} endDate={endDate} />  ); } const daysCount = days.length; for (let i = 1; i <= (42 - daysCount); i++) { nextsMonth.date(i); days.push( <Day key={moment(nextsMonth).format('DD MM YYYY')} onClick={(date) => onClick(date)} currentDate={date} date={moment(nextsMonth)} startDate={startDate} endDate={endDate} />  ); } return ( <nav className="daterangepicker--days"> {labels.concat()} {days.concat()} </nav>  ); }; export default { Heading, Days }; 
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Create Date Range Picker in React

Now, we can import the components defined above (date-range-picker-components is the filename of our components).

import { Heading, Days } from './date-range-picker-components'; class DateRangePicker extends React.Component { constructor(props) { super(props); this.state = { date: moment(), startDate: moment().subtract(5, 'day'), endDate: moment().add(3, 'day') }; } resetDate() { this.setState({ date: moment() }); } changeMonth(month) { const {date} = this.state; date.month(month); this.setState( date ); } changeDate(date) { let {startDate, endDate} = this.state; if (startDate === null || date.isBefore(startDate, 'day') || ! startDate.isSame(endDate, 'day')) { startDate = moment(date); endDate = moment(date); } else if (date.isSame(startDate, 'day') && date.isSame(endDate, 'day')) { startDate = null; endDate = null; } else if (date.isAfter(startDate, 'day')) { endDate = moment(date); } this.setState({ startDate, endDate }); } render() { const {date, startDate, endDate} = this.state; return ( <div className="daterangepicker"> <Heading date={date} changeMonth={(month) => this.changeMonth(month)} resetDate={() => this.resetDate()} />  <Days onClick={(date) => this.changeDate(date)} date={date} startDate={startDate} endDate={endDate} />  </div>  ); } } 
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