The calendar is one of the most commonly used components that can be used to pick dates or to display & manage activities, tasks, or any scheduled events in modern web and mobile apps.
If you find that it is difficult to find a perfect calendar for your React and/or React Native app, this post might help you.
Originally Published Dec 06 2017, updated June 03 2025
Table Of Contents:
Best Calendar Components For React:
1. Gcal/Outlook Like Calendar Component – React Big Calendar
An events calendar component built for React and made for modern browsers (read: IE10+) and uses flexbox over the classic tables-caption approach.
2. FullCalendar React Component
The official React Component for FullCalendar, a lightweight yet powerful and developer-friendly JavaScript library to create flexible, draggable event calendars on the modern web app.
3. Responsive React Calendar Timeline Component
A modern and responsive react timeline component designed for both desktop and mobile.
4. React GitHub Calendar
A React component to display a GitHub contributions calendar.
5. React, Tailwind and Shadcn Full Calendar
A React full calendar component built with shadcn/ui & Tailwind CSS.
Features
- Fully customizable with Tailwind CSS
- Dark mode support
- Accessible components using Radix UI
- Responsive design
- Multiple view modes
- Advanced event management
Best Calendar Components For React Native:
1. Customizable React Native Calendar Components
This module includes various customizable React Native calendar components. Compatible with both Android and iOS.
2. React Native Flash Calendar
An incredibly fast and flexible way of building calendars in React Native.
Features
- iOS and Android support
- Expo compatible, no binary updates required
- Localization built-in
- Customizable and composable UI
- Dark-mode out of the box
- Infinite scroll
- Date range support
- Tiny bundle size
- Bottom sheet compatible
3. react-native-calendar-strip
Easy to use and visually stunning calendar component for React Native.
4. React Native Calendar
Yet another customized calendar component for React Native powered apps.
5. React Native Timeline Calendar Kit
A React Native timeline calendar component kit, fully implemented using @shopify/flash-list, react-native-gesture-handler, and react-native-reanimated. Support pinch to zoom, drag and drop to create/update events.
More Resources:
There’re lots of web & mobile event libraries out there and you can find more React & React Native resources about calendar on our Calendar category.
To learn more about date picker on modern web & mobile development, here are a few resources available online:
- 5 Best Vue.js Calendar Components
- Calendar Plugins In Vanilla JavaScript
- Best JavaScript/jQuery Calendar Plugins For Scheduled Events