How To Create ColorPicker Using Ant Design UI In ReactJS

Introduction

An enterprise-class UI design language and React UI library with high-quality React components, one of the best React UI libraries for enterprises.

A ColorPicker component provides color selection. It is used when the user needs to customize the color selection.

Preconditions

• Javascript
• Basic knowledge of React JS
• Node.js
• V.S. Code,Visual Studio
• Typescript

We cover the below things in this article: 

• Create React application
• Installation of Ant Design UI
• How to create a ColorPicker of Ant Design UI in React js.

Here we will follow the steps for creating a ColorPicker.

Step 1. Run the below command to create a React.js project.

npx create-react-app my-app --template typescript

Step 2. Run the below command to install Ant Design UI.

npm i @ant-design/icons
npm i antd

Create the files according to the below image.

Step 3. Add the below code in the App.tsx.

import React from 'react';
import './index.css';
import { ColorPicker } from 'antd';

const App = () => <ColorPicker />;
export default App;

Step 4. Add the below code in package.json

{
  "name": "my-app",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "private": true,
  "dependencies": {
    "@testing-library/jest-dom": "^5.16.5",
    "@testing-library/react": "^13.4.0",
    "@testing-library/user-event": "^13.5.0",
    "@types/jest": "^27.5.2",
    "@types/node": "^16.18.34",
    "@types/react": "^18.2.8",
    "@types/react-dom": "^18.2.4",
    "antd": "^5.6.0",
    "react": "^18.2.0",
    "react-dom": "^18.2.0",
    "react-scripts": "5.0.1",
    "typescript": "^4.9.5",
    "web-vitals": "^2.1.4"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "start": "react-scripts start",
    "build": "react-scripts build",
    "test": "react-scripts test",
    "eject": "react-scripts eject"
  },
  "eslintConfig": {
    "extends": [
      "react-app",
      "react-app/jest"
    ]
  },
  "browserslist": {
    "production": [
      ">0.2%",
      "not dead",
      "not op_mini all"
    ],
    "development": [
      "last 1 chrome version",
      "last 1 firefox version",
      "last 1 safari version"
    ]
  }
}

Step 5. Run the below command to run the application.

npm start

After running this command, we will get this ColorPicker.

Summary

In this article, we learned how to create a ColorPicker using Ant Design UI with React JS and Typescript.