ReactJS Evergreen Menu Component

React Evergreen is a popular front-end library with a set of React components for building beautiful products as this library is flexible, sensible defaults, and User friendly. Menu Component allows the user to show a list of actions that the user can take. We can use the following approach in ReactJS to use the Evergreen Menu Component.

Menu Props:

• children: It is used to denote the children of the menu component.

MenuDivider Props: This does not take any props.

MenuGroup Props:

• title: It is used to denote the title of the menu group.
• children: It is used to denote the children of the menu group.

MenuItem Props:

• is: It is used to denote the element type to use for the menu item.
• className: It is used to pass the class name to the component.
• onSelect: It is a function that is triggered on the click and enter/space keypress.
• icon: It is used to define the custom icon or the Evergreen icon before the label.
• children: It is used to denote the children of the component.
• secondaryText: It is used to denote the secondary text shown on the right.
• appearance: The default theme supports only one default appearance.
• intent: It is used to denote the intent of the Menu item.
• disabled: It is used to indicate whether the menu item is disabled or not.

MenuOption Props:

• id: It is used to denote the id attribute of the menu option.
• onSelect: It is a function that is triggered on the click and enter/space keypress.
• isSelected: It is used to denote the icon before the label.
• children: It is used to denote the children of the component.
• secondaryText: It is used to denote the secondary text shown on the right.
• appearance: The default theme supports only one default appearance.

MenuOptionGroup Props:

• title: It is used to denote the title of the menu group.
• selected: It is used to denote the current value of the option group.
• onChange: It is a callback function that is called when selection changes.
• options: It is used to denote the list of options rendered in the group.

Creating React Application And Installing Module:

• Step 1: Create a React application using the following command:

  npx create-react-app foldername

• Step 2: After creating your project folder i.e. foldername, move to it using the following command:

  cd foldername

• Step 3: After creating the ReactJS application, Install the required module using the following command:

  npm install evergreen-ui

Project Structure: It will look like the following.

Project Structure

Example: Now write down the following code in the App.js file. Here, App is our default component where we have written our code.

App.js

import React from 'react'
import { Menu } from 'evergreen-ui'

export default function App() {

  return (
    <div style={{
      display: 'block', width: 700, paddingLeft: 30
    }}>
      <h4>ReactJS Evergreen Menu Component</h4>
      <Menu>
        <Menu.Group>
          <Menu.Item>Menu Item 1</Menu.Item>
          <Menu.Item>Menu Item 2</Menu.Item>
          <Menu.Item>Menu Item 3</Menu.Item>
          <Menu.Item>Menu Item 4</Menu.Item>
          <Menu.Item>Menu Item 5</Menu.Item>
          <Menu.Item>Menu Item 6</Menu.Item>
        </Menu.Group>
      </Menu>
    </div>
  );
}

Step to Run Application: Run the application using the following command from the root directory of the project:

npm start

Output: Now open your browser and go to http://localhost:3000/, you will see the following output:

Reference: https://evergreen.segment.com/components/menu