react datetimepicker with meteor

Question

I am a newbie to meteor and react , sorry if this is a silly question.

I am trying to put a react datetimepicker in my meteor project without success.

below is the project structure ( same as the todo app in meteor's official guide)

imports

   -ui


      -App.jsx

      -Example.jsx

code in Example.jsx (which I copied from the Controlled Component example in http://dev.quri.com/react-bootstrap-datetimepicker/]1

import React from 'react';
import DatePicker from 'react-datepicker';
import moment from 'moment';

import 'react-datepicker/dist/react-datepicker.css';

// CSS Modules, react-datepicker-cssmodules.css
// import 'react-datepicker/dist/react-datepicker-cssmodules.css';

class Example extends React.Component {
  constructor (props) {
    super(props)
    this.state = {
      startDate: moment()
    };
    this.handleChange = this.handleChange.bind(this);
  }

  handleChange(date) {
    this.setState({
      startDate: date
    });
  }

  render() {
    return <DatePicker
        selected={this.state.startDate}
        onChange={this.handleChange}
    />;
  }
}

code in App.jsx

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import Example from './Example.jsx';
import DatePicker from 'react-datepicker';
import moment from 'moment';



export default class App extends Component {
    render() {
        return (
            <div className="container">
            <h1> Time selecting </h1>
            <DatePicker selected={this.state.date} onChange={this.handleChange} />
            </div>
    )
    };

}

My app can run and print the line "Time selecting" before I tried to add the datetimepicker and put the line

<DatePicker selected={this.state.date} onChange={this.handleChange} />

in App.jsx

How can I use the datetimepicker correctly?

---

Now I deleted the Example.jsx file and changed the file in App.jsx to

import React from 'react';
import DatePicker from 'react-datepicker';
import moment from 'moment';

export default class App extends Component {
      constructor(props) {
        super(props);
        this.state = {
          date: "1990-06-05",
          format: "YYYY-MM-DD",
          inputFormat: "DD/MM/YYYY",
          mode: "date"
        };

         this.handleChange = this.handleChange.bind(this);
      }

      handleChange(date) {
        this.setState({
            startDate: date
        });
     }

      render() {

    return (
                <div className="container">
                   <h1> Time selecting </h1>
                   <DatePicker selected={this.state.startDate} 
                                         onChange = {this.handleChange} />
                </div>
        )
      }
    }

but the browser is still showing nothing.

Answer 1

you probably just copied only the <DatePicker> part you should also include the handleChange call back function and the initial state like below.

    import React from 'react';
    import DatePicker from 'react-datepicker';
    import moment from 'moment';

   class Application extends React.Component {

  constructor(props) {
        super(props);
        this.state = {date: moment()};
        this.handleChange = this.handleChange.bind(this);
      }

      handleChange(date) {
        this.setState({
            startDate: date
        });
     }


  render() {
    return <div className="container">
                   <h1> Time selecting </h1>
                   <DatePicker selected={this.state.date}
                    onChange={this.dateChanged} />
                </div>
  }
}

here is the codepen for react-datepicker demo.