Getting Started
28 Jun 202515 minutes to read
This section explains how to create a simple Menu, and configure its available functionalities in React.
Dependencies
The following list of dependencies are required to use the Menu component in your application.
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-react-base
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-navigations
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-base
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-data
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-inputs
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-lists
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-popups
|-- @syncfusion/ej2-buttons
Setup your development environment
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 Menu
component, use the following command
npm install @syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations --save
The above command installs Menu dependencies which are required to render the component in the React
environment.
Adding Style sheet to the Application
Add Menu component’s styles as given below in App.css
.
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-base/styles/material.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-navigations/styles/material.css";
Add Menu to the project
Now, you can add Menu
component in the application. For getting started, add Menu
component in src/App.tsx
file. Using the following code snippet.
import { MenuComponent, MenuItemModel } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations';
import * as React from 'react';
function App() {
// Menu items definition
let menuItems: MenuItemModel[] = [
{
items: [
{ text: 'Open' },
{ text: 'Save' },
{ text: 'Exit' }
],
text: 'File'
},
{
items: [
{ text: 'Cut' },
{ text: 'Copy' },
{ text: 'Paste' }
],
text: 'Edit'
},
{
items: [
{ text: 'Toolbar' },
{ text: 'Sidebar' }
],
text: 'View'
},
{
items: [
{ text: 'Spelling & Grammar' },
{ text: 'Customize' },
{ text: 'Options' }
],
text: 'Tools'
},
{ text: 'Go' },
{ text: 'Help' }
];
return (
<MenuComponent items={menuItems}/>
);
}
export default App;
import { MenuComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations';
import * as React from 'react';
function App() {
// Menu items definition
let menuItems = [
{
items: [
{ text: 'Open' },
{ text: 'Save' },
{ text: 'Exit' }
],
text: 'File'
},
{
items: [
{ text: 'Cut' },
{ text: 'Copy' },
{ text: 'Paste' }
],
text: 'Edit'
},
{
items: [
{ text: 'Toolbar' },
{ text: 'Sidebar' }
],
text: 'View'
},
{
items: [
{ text: 'Spelling & Grammar' },
{ text: 'Customize' },
{ text: 'Options' }
],
text: 'Tools'
},
{ text: 'Go' },
{ text: 'Help' }
];
return (<MenuComponent items={menuItems}/>);
}
export default App;
Run 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 Menu component.
import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { MenuComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';
enableRipple(true);
function App() {
// Menu items definition
let menuItems = [
{
items: [
{ text: 'Open' },
{ text: 'Save' },
{ text: 'Exit' }
],
text: 'File'
},
{
items: [
{ text: 'Cut' },
{ text: 'Copy' },
{ text: 'Paste' }
],
text: 'Edit'
},
{
items: [
{ text: 'Toolbar' },
{ text: 'Sidebar' }
],
text: 'View'
},
{
items: [
{ text: 'Spelling & Grammar' },
{ text: 'Customize' },
{ text: 'Options' }
],
text: 'Tools'
},
{ text: 'Go' },
{ text: 'Help' }
];
return (<MenuComponent items={menuItems}/>);
}
export default App;
ReactDom.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));
import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { MenuComponent, MenuItemModel } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';
enableRipple(true);
function App() {
// Menu items definition
let menuItems: MenuItemModel[] = [
{
items: [
{ text: 'Open' },
{ text: 'Save' },
{ text: 'Exit' }
],
text: 'File'
},
{
items: [
{ text: 'Cut' },
{ text: 'Copy' },
{ text: 'Paste' }
],
text: 'Edit'
},
{
items: [
{ text: 'Toolbar' },
{ text: 'Sidebar' }
],
text: 'View'
},
{
items: [
{ text: 'Spelling & Grammar' },
{ text: 'Customize' },
{ text: 'Options' }
],
text: 'Tools'
},
{ text: 'Go' },
{ text: 'Help' }
];
return (
<MenuComponent items={menuItems}/>
);
}
export default App;
ReactDom.render(<App />,document.getElementById('element'));
This example demonstrates the basic rendering of Menu with items support. For more information about data source support, refer to the
Data Source Binding
section.