bigcalendar/react-big-calendar
React Big Calendar
react-big-calendar is a React calendar component used to build scheduling interfaces for web applications. It provides layouts for displaying events in daily, weekly, and monthly views, acting as a customizable UI component for managing appointments and schedules.
The project includes a resource scheduling grid for tracking multiple events across different entities and a drag and drop scheduler that allows users to move and resize events through pointer-based interactions.
The interface supports localized date scheduling and date formatting localization. Visual appearance is managed through CSS-variable theming, calendar cell styling, and the ability to replace internal elements with custom components to match specific design systems.
Features
- Calendar-Based Scheduling Interfaces - Provides a comprehensive calendar-based scheduling interface for managing events and appointments.
- Multi-Resource Scheduling - Tracks schedules across multiple entities by assigning events to specific resources and grouping them.
- Pluggable Date Interfaces - Decouples core scheduling logic from specific date libraries through a pluggable formatting interface.
- Scheduling Resource Grouping - Allows assigning events to specific resources and grouping them to track schedules across entities.
- Calendar Components - Provides a React-based calendar component for displaying events in daily, weekly, and monthly layouts.
- Custom Component Injection - Allows replacing internal calendar elements, like event wrappers and time indicators, with custom React components.
- Calendar Views - Renders a full scheduling view for managing events with industry-standard calendar layouts.
- Event Resizing and Movement - Implements a pointer-based interface for moving and resizing calendar events with live visual previews.
- Resource-Based Grid Layouts - Organizes the calendar view by mapping events to specific resources and rendering them in parallel columns.
- Resource Scheduling Grids - Provides a specialized grid view for organizing and tracking multiple events across different resources.
- Localized Scheduling Components - Ships UI components that adapt date and time formatting to match the user's cultural locale.
- Temporal State Reconciliation - Translates mouse movements during drag-and-drop into time increments to update event timestamps.
- Visual Customization - Provides CSS variables and stylesheets to customize the visual appearance and branding of the calendar.
- Coordinate-Based Positioning - Implements a coordinate system to calculate pixel offsets for positioning events based on time intervals.
- CSS Variable Theming - Uses native CSS variables to allow dynamic theming and visual styling of the calendar grid and events.
- Customizable UI Components - Provides a highly customizable UI where internal components and cell styles can be replaced for branding.
- Interactive Schedulers - Implements a pointer-based interface for moving and resizing events within a calendar layout.
- Interactive Event Resizing - Enables users to move and resize calendar events dynamically using drag-and-drop interactions.
- Style Configurations - Offers configurable variables and stylesheets to define custom design system presets and CSS rules.
- Internationalized Date Formatting - Ensures date displays and cultural formatting match the user's locale through a date-time library.
- UI Components - Calendar component for scheduling.
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