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 Dec 17 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.
Features:
- Views: It supports multiple calendar views, including Month, Week, Work Week, Day, and Agenda.
- Localization: The library offers options for handling localization and date formatting using popular libraries like Moment.js, Date-fns, Day.js, or Globalize.js.
- Event Management: Users can manage events, and with additional manual setup (often using the
react-beautiful-dndlibrary), drag-and-drop and event resizing functionalities can be implemented. - Customization: The component can be highly customized to match an application’s look and feel by using CSS or CSS preprocessors.
- Resource View: Unlike some alternatives, React Big Calendar provides a resource view for free, which is useful for managing assets like conference rooms or equipment.
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.
Features:
- Customizable Views: Developers can configure various views such as month, week, day, list, and agenda views, allowing users to interact with event data in different formats.
- Event Management: The library is designed to manage event data, including features like creating, updating, and deleting events. Events can be dragged and dropped within the calendar and resized.
- Data Integration: It can load event data from various sources, including simple JavaScript arrays, JSON feeds (via an API or URL), MySQL, CSV, and even Google Calendar.
- Framework Support: While it can be used with vanilla JavaScript (ES6), FullCalendar offers dedicated, high-performance connectors for popular frameworks like React, Vue, and Angular.
- Localization: The library offers extensive built-in locale support for more than 75 languages, ensuring global readiness and tailored interfaces for different regions.
- Modular Architecture: Its functionality is split into a plugin-based system, which helps reduce the overall bundle size of an application by only including the necessary features.
3. Responsive React Calendar Timeline Component
A modern and responsive React timeline component designed for both desktop and mobile.
4. Calendar Heatmap Component With React and SVG
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.
Features:
- Pure JS. No Native code required
- Date marking – dot, multi-dot, period, multi-period and custom marking
- Customization of style, content (days, months, etc) and dates
- Detailed documentation and examples
- Swipeable calendar with flexible custom rendering
- Scrolling to today, selecting dates, and more
- Allowing or blocking certain dates
- Accessibility support
- Automatic date formatting for different locales
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 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.
5. Swipeable Calendar Component For React Native
A beautiful swipeable calendar component for React Native app. Based on reanimated and react-native-gesture-handler.
More Resources:
There are lots of web & mobile event libraries out there, and you can find more React & React Native resources about calendars on our Calendar category.
To learn more about date pickers in 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