A different way of
datepicker-ing on the web.🛠 While it is still in RC release, feel free to try it out.
💯 Also, featured in awesome-lit-html.
This marks another completion of an important milestone of app-datepicker with all the love from the Web Components community in making this element great and wonderful. As Web Components getting more and more traction and better at providing a web standard way of creating shareable components, it plays an important role in the JavaScript community as many developers depend on a plethora of development tools written in JavaScript for the web to create a better developer experience when developing a library, a component, or even a large scalable application.
Today, app-datepicker has been completely rewritten to adapt to the best of both worlds by leveraging the modern technologies the community most familiar with since year 2018.
The following are the list of tools used that makes it shine:
- Pre-requisite
- Installation
- How to use
- Browser compatibility
- Works well with
mwc-dialog> - API references
- Demo
- Older versions
- License
- ES2020 (The element is compiled with features targeting ES2020, so it might not work properly without transpilation on older browsers.)
- lit-element >= 2.2.1
-
NPM
$ npm i app-datepicker@next
-
Alternatively, it can be downloaded from any of the following awesome CDNs:
Polyfills
Please make sure you have all these features available on the browsers you are supporting. If no, please consider polyfill-ing in order to run the datepicker element.
The following snippet shows a simple script used in the demo to load polyfills via feature detection on different browsers:
<script>
if (null == Array.prototype.find) {
Object.defineProperty(Array.prototype, 'find', {
value: function arrayFind(cb) {
const filtered = this.filter(cb);
return !filtered.length ? void 0 : filtered[0];
}
});
}
if (!window.Intl) {
const wa = document.createElement('script');
/** FIXME: Pin package version due to https://github.com/andyearnshaw/Intl.js/issues/256 */
wa.src = 'https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/dist/Intl.complete.js';
wa.onload = () => console.info('🌐 Intl polyfill loaded');
wa.onerror = console.error;
document.head.appendChild(wa);
}
</script>my-app.ts
/**
* Say you've already installed the element via NPM, simply import the package to your application.
* Here I'm using `lit-element` for developing my application.
*/
import { css, customElement, html, LitElement } from 'lit-element';
import 'app-datepicker';
@customElement(MyApp.is)
export class MyApp extends LitElement {
static is() { return 'my-app'; }
static styles = [
css`
:host {
display: block;
}
* {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
`
];
protected render() {
return html`<app-datepicker></app-datepicker>`;
}
}index.html
<!doctype html>
<html>
<!-- Using ES modules to load the app -->
<script type="module" src="/my-app.js"></script>
...
<body>
<my-app>
<!-- <AppDatepicker> will be rendered when <MyApp> loads. -->
</my-app>
</body>
...
</html> Both app-datepicker and app-datepicker-dialog works in last 2 versions of all evergreen browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari). Internet Explorer 11 is no longer supported in favor of the new Microsoft Edge.
Tested on the following browsers:
| Name | OS |
|---|---|
| Chrome 79 | Windows 10 |
| Edge 18 | Windows 10 |
| Firefox 72 | Windows 10 |
| Safari 13 | mac 10.13 |
For material-components-web-components users, you can create your own custom date picker element by wrapping app-datepicker inside mwc-dialog.
Feasible source code can be viewed here.
// Simplified code snippet
class MWCDatePicker extends LitElement {
render() {
return html`
<mwc-dialog>
<app-datepicker></app-datepicker>
<mwc-button slot="secondaryAction" dialogAction="cancel">cancel</mwc-button>
<mwc-button slot="primaryAction" dialogAction="set">set</mwc-button>
</mwc-dialog>
`;
}
}Configurable demo powered by Firebase
Meantime, feel free to check the older version out at:
2.xbranch - Built with Material Design and Polymer 2, published at Bower.3.xbranch - Built with Material Design and Polymer 3, published at NPM.
MIT License © Rong Sen Ng