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react-typed-date

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A React library for creating an intuitive, keyboard-friendly date input field with segment navigation.

Motivation​

react-typed-date provides a lightweight date input experience inspired by React ARIA DateField, offering the same intuitive keyboard navigation and segment editing in a zero-dependency package.

Features​

  • 🎯 Intuitive keyboard navigation between date segments (month/day/year)
  • 🚦 Smart date validation with awareness of month lengths and leap years
  • ⌨️ Proper keyboard interaction with arrow keys for quick date adjustments
  • 🎨 Easily stylable with your preferred CSS solution
  • 📦 TypeScript support with full type definitions
  • 🧩 Zero dependencies

Alternatives​

Note that react-typed-date is specifically designed as a date input field with segment navigation, not a date picker with a popup calendar. If you need a full calendar picker component, consider libraries like react-day-picker alongside this library.

Before choosing this library, consider exploring these alternatives. As react-typed-date is a hobby project, these alternatives might offer more extensive feature sets:

  • React Aria DateField - Adobe's accessible implementation with comprehensive keyboard support and robust accessibility features, though it requires additional dependencies
  • MUI X Date Field - Material UI's polished implementation offering strong validation and formatting capabilities, but closely integrated with MUI's design system
  • RSuite DateInput - Clean, well-documented implementation within the RSuite component ecosystem
  • Hero UI - Newer component library built on React Aria's foundation with consistent design patterns
  • React Date Picker - Established library offering both segmented input and calendar functionality in one package
  • Native Date Input - Browser's built-in implementation requiring no dependencies, but with limited styling options and inconsistent cross-browser behavior

Each alternative presents different tradeoffs regarding bundle size, styling flexibility, and dependencies. What sets react-typed-date apart is its focus on providing core functionality with zero dependencies while offering complete styling freedom.