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What’s New in Syncfusion React UI Components

ESSENTIAL STUDIO 2024 VOLUME 3

What’s New in Syncfusion React UI Components

New Smart Paste Button, Smart TextArea, and AI AssistView components; XML-mapped content controls and shapes for Word Processor; and advanced editing features for the Image Editor make the 2024 Volume 3 release a must-have for React developers.

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New components

The following components have been added to the Syncfusion React suite:

  • AI AssistView
  • Smart Paste Button
  • Smart TextArea

Preview to production-ready component

The OTP Input component has been developed to meet industry standards. It is now marked as a production-ready component for React.

Fluent 2 high contrast theme

All Syncfusion React components support the Fluent 2 high contrast design, improving accessibility and user experience for visually impaired users.

Fluent2HighContrast theme in React UI Components

Bootstrap 5.3 theme

All Syncfusion React components support the Bootstrap 5.3 design, offering enhanced styling and features for modern web development.

Bootstrap5.3 theme in React UI Components

Smart Paste Button (preview)

The React Smart Paste Button automatically fills a form with content from the user’s clipboard by utilizing text-generative AI functionality. This component enhances the user experience by simplifying data entry and minimizing manual input for forms.

Key features

  • Clipboard integration: Pulls data from the clipboard, reducing the need for manual typing.
  • Autofill capability: Automatically populates multiple form fields with one click, saving time and effort.
  • Smart data parsing: Intelligently recognizes and formats clipboard data to match the form’s required fields.

React Smart Paste

Smart TextArea (preview)

The React Smart TextArea is an advanced component designed to elevate the text input experience by providing intelligent autocomplete suggestions for entire sentences through text-generative AI functionality. This component enhances user productivity by predicting and offering relevant completions based on the context of what is being typed.

Key features

  • Intelligent autocomplete: Automatically suggests whole sentence completions based on user input and predefined configurations.
  • Context-aware predictions: Enhances typing efficiency by predicting the most relevant text completions in real time.
  • Seamless integration: Easily integrates into existing React applications, providing a smooth and intuitive user experience.
  • Customizable configuration: Allows for tailored suggestions, adapting to specific application needs and user behaviors.

React Smart TextArea

AI AssistView (preview)

The React AI AssistView is a versatile and modern UI tool designed to seamlessly integrate AI services into your web applications. It enables users to send prompts, execute commands through a feature-rich toolbar, and effortlessly display AI-generated responses in a user-friendly interface.

Key features

  • Built-in toolbars: Predefined toolbar items like copy, edit, and like/dislike for easy interaction with prompts and responses.
  • Prompt suggestions: Supports initial or on-demand prompt suggestions with a customizable header.
  • Header toolbar: Allows adding toolbar items in the header with options for executing custom commands.
  • Custom views: Extensive customization options for creating personalized views in addition to the built-in assist view.
  • Customization: Allows customizing the default appearance, including prompts, responses, and more, to suit your needs.

React AI AssistView

Barcode

QR code with logo support

This feature allows you to embed a logo or image in the center of your QR codes, enhancing brand visibility and making your QR codes more visually appealing. You can customize the logo size, which defaults to one-third of the QR code’s dimensions and is automatically adjusted to ensure it doesn’t exceed 30% of the code’s width or height, maintaining scan efficiency. The logo can be sourced from a local image path, Base64-encoded image, online image URL, or icon.

React QR code with logo embedded in center

Charts

Sort animation

When sorting data in the chart, the data transitions smoothly with an animation effect.

React Chart Sort Animation

Smooth animation on zooming and panning

This feature supports smooth animation transitions when zooming and panning the chart.

React Chart Animation on Zooming and Panning

Stepline without risers

This feature allows users to disable the risers in the stepline series.

React Chart Stepline riser

Accumulation Charts

Animation on data update

This feature allows users to add, remove, or update data with smooth animation transitions for series, data labels, and legends.

React Pie Chart Animation on Data Update

Rounded corners

This feature allows users to apply rounded corners to pie, donut, pyramid, and funnel charts.

React Pie Chart Rounded Corners

Patterns

In addition to the fill option, users can now apply different patterns to accumulation chart types.

React Pie Chart Patterns

DateTime Picker

Time range selection

The DateTime Picker now supports restricting time selection to specific daily ranges, such as business hours. Users can only choose times within defined limits, like for appointment scheduling. The feature improves the user experience by allowing easy configuration of time.

React DateTime Picker time range selection.

Diagram

Flowchart automatic layout

A flowchart visually represents a process, workflow, system, or algorithm. This feature automatically creates flowcharts by arranging diagram elements clearly, logically, and visually appealingly. This feature leverages an advanced layout algorithm that automatically positions nodes and connectors, whether sourced from the NodeCollection and ConnectorCollection or business objects defined in the DataSource.

Creating flowchart from external data using automatic flowchart layout algorithm in React Diagram

Importing and exporting mind map and flowchart Mermaid syntax data

Mermaid syntax is a Markdown-inspired syntax that automatically generates diagrams. This feature enables you to generate mind map and flowchart diagrams directly from Mermaid syntax data, making it easier to visualize complex ideas and processes without manual drawing. Additionally, you can export your mind map and flowchart diagrams to Mermaid syntax, enabling easy sharing and editing, and use it across various platforms. You can also leverage AI assistants to generate Mermaid syntax for mind map and flowchart diagrams and directly import the generated code into the React Diagram component.

Word Processor

XML mapped content controls

This feature allows you to insert content controls in your document that are linked to custom XML data.

By mapping specific parts of your document to XML data, you can ensure that the content within these controls is automatically updated whenever the underlying XML data changes, making it ideal for dynamic documents. Please refer to the documentation for more details.

Shape support

This feature allows you to preserve shapes in Word documents when opening and saving them in the Word Processor. Please refer to the documentation and demo for more details.

List of shapes preserved:

  • Lines
  • Rectangles
  • Basic shapes
  • Block arrows
  • Equation shapes
  • Flowcharts
  • Stars and banners

Illustration of content control in the React Word Processor component.

Value template

This feature lets you customize the display of selected values in the Dropdown Tree component. Format and present the selected items in a way that aligns with your application’s specific needs. You can explore a demo of this feature here.

React Dropdown Tree value template

File Manager

Range selection

The File Manager now allows users to select a range of files or folders by dragging the mouse pointer over them, just like in the Windows File Explorer. You can explore a demo of this feature here.

React File Manager range selection

Gantt Chart

Touch support for zooming

Users can now easily zoom in and zoom out by pinching directly on the chart pane. This intuitive touch gesture makes it more convenient to navigate through Gantt Charts on touch-enabled devices, providing a seamless and user-friendly experience.

Touch support for zooming React Gantt Chart.

DataGrid

Adaptive layout for smaller screens

When the adaptive layout feature is enabled, the same layout is rendered on both mobile devices and desktops, by default. Now, DataGrid provides an option that allows rendering an adaptive layout exclusively for mobile screen sizes.

Image Editor

Redact support

Redact support allows users to conceal sensitive information by applying blur or pixel effects to specific areas of an image. This feature is particularly valuable for protecting privacy and complying with data protection regulations, making it easier to securely share images without compromising sensitive information.

React Image Editor redact support.

Text annotation enhancement

The enhanced text-annotation feature in the Image Editor allows users to customize their annotations with fill color, outline color, and outline width. Ideal for making text stand out and improving readability, this tool ensures that your annotations are both clear and visually appealing in any image.

React Image Editor text annotation.

Rectangle annotation enhancement

The enhanced rectangle-annotation feature in the Image Editor now supports adjusting the border radius, allowing users to create annotations with rounded or sharp corners. This enhancement provides greater flexibility in customizing the look of your annotations, adding a touch of style and refinement.

React Image Editor rectangle annotation.

Mention

Disable individual items

The Mention component provides options for individual items to be put in an enabled or disabled state for specific scenarios. This ensures that disabled items cannot be selected as values within the component.

React Mention disabled individual items.

PDF Viewer

Improved PDF Viewer performance

The standalone PDF Viewer now loads large-sized documents more quickly. This enhancement is achieved by loading Base64 strings directly into a byte array, boosting the loading performance and efficiency by up to 45% on large PDF files.

Search enhancements

The React PDF Viewer includes the following enhancements in the text search functionality:

  • Search for multiple words with the “Match any word” option.
  • View the total number of search results along with the current search index.
  • The search results now display the total number of instances of each word found.

Text search in the PDF Viewer

Import PDFs

External PDF documents can be imported anywhere within an existing PDF document in the PDF Viewer.

Import PDF into the PDF Viewer

Custom fonts in form fields

Signature and initials fields allow the use of custom fonts for e-signing.

Rich Text Editor

Slash menu

The slash menu allows users to seamlessly apply formatting options like headings, lists, and quotes, as well as open insert dialogs and execute custom commands all within the editor. This dynamic menu is easily triggered by typing the “/” character, providing a quick way to access the editing features.

React Rich Text Editor Slash Menu

Import/Export

This feature enables users to easily export content from the Rich Text Editor to PDF or Word documents, as well as import Word document content into the editor. This intuitive feature enhances document management, providing a smooth and user-friendly experience.

React Rich Text Editor Import Export

Inline code

Users can now easily highlight small code snippets, commands, or keywords directly within the Rich Text Editor. This feature enhances readability and ensures that important text elements stand out, providing a seamless and user-friendly experience.

React Rich Text Editor Inline Code

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