Getting started with React Chips component

28 Jun 20254 minutes to read

This section explains how to create a simple Chip and to configure the Chip component.

To get start quickly with React Chips, you can check on this video:

Dependencies

The list of dependencies required to use the Chip component in your application is given below:

|-- @syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-base
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-buttons
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-react-base

Installation and Configuration

To easily set up a React application, use create-vite-app, which provides a faster development environment, smaller bundle sizes, and optimized builds compared to traditional tools like create-react-app. For detailed steps, refer to the Vite installation instructions. Vite sets up your environment using JavaScript and optimizes your application for production.

Note: To create a React application using create-react-app, refer to this documentation for more details.

To create a new React application, run the following command.

npm create vite@latest my-app

To set-up a React application in TypeScript environment, run the following command.

npm create vite@latest my-app -- --template react-ts
cd my-app
npm run dev

To set-up a React application in JavaScript environment, run the following command.

npm create vite@latest my-app -- --template react
cd my-app
npm run dev

Adding Syncfusion^® packages

All the available Essential^® JS 2 packages are published in npmjs.com public registry.

To install Chip component, use the following command

npm install @syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons --save

Adding CSS Reference

Import the Chip component’s required CSS references as follows in src/App.css.

@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons/styles/material.css";

Adding Chip component to the Application

To include the Chip component in your application import the ChipListComponent from ej2-react-buttons package in App.tsx.

Add the Chip component in application as shown in below code example.

import * as React from 'react';
import './App.css';
// Import the Button.
import { ChipListComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons';

// To render Button.
function App() {
  return (
    <ChipListComponent text="Janet Leverling"></ChipListComponent>
  );
}
export default App;

Running the application

Now run the npm run dev command in the console to start the development server. This command compiles your code and serves the application locally, opening it in the browser.

npm run dev

The following example shows a basic Chip component.

app.jsx
app.tsx
index.css
index.html
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';
import { ChipListComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons';
// To render Chip.
function App() {
    return (<ChipListComponent text="Janet Leverling"></ChipListComponent>);
}
export default App;
ReactDom.render(<App />, document.getElementById('chip'));
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';
import { ChipListComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-buttons';
import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';

enableRipple(true);

// To render Chip.
function App() {
  return (
    <ChipListComponent text="Janet Leverling"></ChipListComponent>
  );
}
export default App;
ReactDom.render(<App />, document.getElementById('chip'));
#loader {
	color: #008cff;
	height: 40px;
	left: 45%;
	position: absolute;
	top: 45%;
	width: 30%;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <title>Syncfusion React Chips</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <meta name="description" content="Essential JS 2 for React Components" />
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/30.1.37/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/30.1.37/ej2-react-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/systemjs/0.19.38/system.js"></script>
    <script src="systemjs.config.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/syncfusion-helper.js" type ="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    <div id='chip'>
        <div id='loader'>Loading....</div>
    </div>
</body>

</html>