React Selectize

ReactSelectize is a stateless Select component for ReactJS, that provides a platform for the more developer friendly SimpleSelect & MultiSelect components.

Both SimpleSelect & MultiSelect have been designed to work as drop in replacement for the built-in React.DOM.Select component.

styles & features inspired by React Select & Selectize.

DEMO / Examples: furqanZafar.github.io/react-selectize

Changelog (last updated on 29th July 2017)
API Reference

Motivation

existing components do not behave like built-in React.DOM.* components.
existing components synchronize props with state an anti pattern, which makes them prone to bugs & difficult for contributers to push new features without breaking something else.
more features.

Features

Drop in replacement for React.DOM.Select
Customizable themes
Stateless, therefore extremely flexible & extensible
Clean and compact API fully documented on GitHub
Multiselect support
Option groups
Custom filtering & option object
Search highlighting
Custom option & value rendering
Animated dropdown
Remote data loading
Tagging or item creation
Restore on backspace
Editable value
Caret between items
Customizable dropdown direction
Mark options as unselectable
Disable selected values
Absolute positioned overlay, "Tether"ed to the search field

Deps

tether

Peer Deps

create-react-class
react
react-dom
react-transition-group
react-dom-factories

Install

npm: npm install react-selectize

your package.json must look like this

{
    "dependencies": {
        "react": "^16.0.0-beta.2",
        "react-addons-css-transition-group": "^15.6.0",
        "react-addons-shallow-compare": "^15.6.0",
        "react-dom": "^16.0.0-beta.2",
        "react-dom-factories": "^1.0.0",
        "react-selectize": "^3.0.1",
        "react-transition-group": "^1.1.2"
    }
}

to include the default styles add the following import statement to your stylus file: @import 'node_modules/react-selectize/themes/index.css'

bower: bower install https://unpkg.com/react-selectize@3.0.1/bower.zip
1998 script tag:

<html>
 <head>
  <!-- PRELUDE -->
  <script src="http://www.preludels.com/prelude-browser-min.js" type="text/javascript" ></script>
  <script src="https://unpkg.com/prelude-extension@0.0.11/dist/index.min.js" type="text/javascript" ></script>

  <!-- REACT -->
  <script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/15.6.1/react-with-addons.min.js"></script>
  <script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/15.6.1/react-dom.min.js"></script>
  <script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/react-dom-factories@1.0.0"></script>

  <!-- optional dependency (only required with using the tether prop) -->
  <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/tether/1.1.1/js/tether.min.js" type="text/javascript" ></script>

  <!-- REACT SELECTIZE -->
  <script src="https://unpkg.com/react-selectize@3.0.1/dist/index.min.js" type="text/javascript" ></script>

  <!-- THEMES (default, bootstrap3, material) -->
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/react-selectize@3.0.1/dist/index.min.css"/>
  
 </head>
 <body>
  <div id="mount-node"></div>
  <script type="text/javascript">
   ReactDOM.render(
    React.createElement(reactSelectize.SimpleSelect, {
     style: {width: 300},
     tether: true,
     placeholder: "Select fruit", 
     options: [{label: "apple", value: "apple"}, {label: "banana", value: "banana"}]
    }), 
    document.getElementById("mount-node")
   );
  </script>
 </body>
</html>

Usage (jsx)

import React, {Component} from 'react';
import {ReactSelectize, SimpleSelect, MultiSelect} from 'react-selectize';
.
.
.
<SimpleSelect placeholder="Select a fruit" onValueChange={value => alert(value)}>
  <option value = "apple">apple</option>
  <option value = "mango">mango</option>
  <option value = "orange">orange</option>
  <option value = "banana">banana</option>
</SimpleSelect>
.
.
.
// Note: options can be passed as props as well, for example
<MultiSelect
    placeholder = "Select fruits"
    options = {["apple", "mango", "orange", "banana"].map(
      fruit => ({label: fruit, value: fruit})
    )}
    onValuesChange = {value => alert(value)}
/>

Usage (livescript)

{create-factory}:React = require \react
{SimpleSelect, MultiSelect, ReactSelectize} = require \react-selectize
SimpleSelect = create-factory SimpleSelect
MultiSelect = create-factory MultiSelect
.
.
.
SimpleSelect do     
    placeholder: 'Select a fruit'
    options: <[apple mango orange banana]> |> map ~> label: it, value: it
    on-value-change: (value) ~>
        alert value
.
.
.
MultiSelect do
    placeholder: 'Select fruits'
    options: <[apple mango orange banana]> |> map ~> label: it, value: it
    on-values-change: (values) ~>
        alert values

Gotchas

the default structure of an option object is {label: String, value :: a} where a implies that value property can be of any equatable type
SimpleSelect notifies change via onValueChange prop whereas MultiSelect notifies change via onValuesChange prop
the onValueChange callback for SimpleSelect is passed 1 parameter. the selected option object (instead of the value property of the option object)
the onValuesChange callback for MultiSelect is passed 1 parameter an Array of selected option objects (instead of a collection of the value properties or a comma separated string of value properties)
both the SimpleSelect & MultiSelect will manage the open, search, value & anchor props using internal state, if they are not provided via props: when passing open, search, value or anchor via props, you must update them on*Change (just like in the case of standard react html input components)

value = {state.selectedValue}
onValueChange = {function(value){
    self.setState({selectedValue: value});
}}
search = {state.search}
onSearchChange = {function(value){    
    self.setState({search: value});
}}

when using custom option object, you should implement the uid function which accepts an option object and returns a unique id, for example:

// assuming the type of our option object is:
// {firstName :: String, lastName :: String, age :: Int}
uid = {function(item){
    return item.firstName + item.lastName;    
}}