Vue FlatPickr Component

Vue.js component for Flatpickr date-time picker

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Demo or JSFiddle

Features

• Reactive v-model value
  • You can change flatpickr value programmatically
• Reactive config options
  • You can change config options dynamically
  • Component will watch for any changes and redraw itself
  • You are suggested to modify config via Vue.set
• Can emit all possible events
• Compatible with Bootstrap, Bulma or any other CSS framework
• Supports wrapped mode
  • Just set wrap:true in config and component will take care of all
• Works with vee-validate and other validation libraries

Installation

# npm
npm install vue-flatpickr-component --save

# Yarn
yarn add vue-flatpickr-component

Usage

Minimal example

<template>
  <div>
    <flat-pickr v-model="date"></flat-pickr>
  </div>
</template>

<script>
  import flatPickr from 'vue-flatpickr-component';
  import 'flatpickr/dist/flatpickr.css';
  
  export default {    
    data () {
      return {
        date: null,       
      }
    },
    components: {
      flatPickr
    }
  }
</script>

Detailed example

This example is based on Bootstrap 4 input group

<template>
  <section>
    <div class="form-group">
      <label>Select a date</label>
      <div class="input-group">
        <flat-pickr
                v-model="date"
                :config="config"                                                          
                class="form-control" 
                placeholder="Select date"               
                name="date">
        </flat-pickr>
        <div class="input-group-btn">
          <button class="btn btn-default" type="button" title="Toggle" data-toggle>
            <i class="fa fa-calendar">
              <span aria-hidden="true" class="sr-only">Toggle</span>
            </i>
          </button>
          <button class="btn btn-default" type="button" title="Clear" data-clear>
            <i class="fa fa-times">
              <span aria-hidden="true" class="sr-only">Clear</span>
            </i>               
          </button>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
    <pre>Selected date is - {{date}}</pre>
  </section>
</template>

<script>
  // bootstrap is just for this example
  import 'bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css';
  // import this component
  import flatPickr from 'vue-flatpickr-component';  
  import 'flatpickr/dist/flatpickr.css';
  // theme is optional
  // try more themes at - https://chmln.github.io/flatpickr/themes/
  import 'flatpickr/dist/themes/material_blue.css';
  // localization is optional
  import {Hindi} from 'flatpickr/dist/l10n/hi.js';
  
  export default {
    name: 'yourComponent',
    data () {
      return {
        // Initial value
        date: new Date(),
        // Get more form https://chmln.github.io/flatpickr/options/
        config: {
          wrap: true, // set wrap to true only when using 'input-group'
          altFormat: 'M	j, Y',
          altInput: true,
          dateFormat: 'Y-m-d',
          locale: Hindi, // locale for this instance only          
        },                
      }
    },
    components: {
      flatPickr
    },    
  }
</script>

As plugin

  import Vue from 'vue';
  import VueFlatPickr from 'vue-flatpickr-component';
  import 'flatpickr/dist/flatpickr.css';
  Vue.use(VueFlatPickr);

This will register a global component <flat-pickr>

Events

• The component can emit all possible events, you can listen to them in your component

<flat-pickr v-model="date" @on-change="doSomethingOnChange" @on-close="doSomethingOnClose"></flat-pickr>

• Events names has been converted to kebab-case.
• You can still pass your methods in :config like original flatpickr do.

Available props

The component accepts these props:

Attribute	Type	Default	Description
v-model / value	String / Date Object / Array / Timestamp / null	null	Set or Get date-picker value (required)
config	Object	{wrap:false}	Flatpickr configuration options
events	Array	Array of useful events	Customise the events to be emitted

Install in non-module environments (without webpack)

<!-- Flatpickr related files -->
<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/flatpickr@4/dist/flatpickr.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/flatpickr@4/dist/flatpickr.min.js"></script>
<!-- Vue js -->
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]"></script>
<!-- Lastly add this package -->
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vue-flatpickr-component@8"></script>
<script>
// Initialize as global component
Vue.component('flat-pickr', VueFlatpickr);
</script>

Run examples on your localhost

• Clone this repo
• You should have node-js >=6.10 <7.0.0 || >=9.x and yarn >=1.x pre-installed
• Install dependencies yarn install
• Run webpack dev server yarn start
• This should open the demo page at http://localhost:9000 in your default web browser

Testing

• This package is using Jest and vue-test-utils for testing.
• Tests can be found in __test__ folder.
• Execute tests with this command yarn test

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.

Caveats

• ⚠️ Don't pass config option as inline literal object to :config prop.

<!-- This will cause date picker to freeze -->
<flat-picker v-model="card" :config="{dateFormat: 'd-m-Y H:i'}"></flat-picker>

• Vue.js can not detect changes when literal object/arrays passed within template, see

License

MIT License