Dropdown Component Project

This project demonstrates a customizable dropdown component with various features such as searchable options, portal support, multiple selections, and custom option rendering. The component is built using React, Storybook, and Tailwind CSS.

Features

• Searchable Dropdown: Implement a search feature within the dropdown.
• Portal Support: Allow the dropdown to be used with or without a portal.
• Single or Multiple Selection: Enable the dropdown to support both single and multiple option selections.
• Customizable Option Rendering: Allow customization of how options are rendered.
• Search Filtering: Ensure the search can filter a long list of options into a shorter list.
• Toggle Features: Allow search feature to be turned on or off.
• Z-Index Compatibility: Ensure the floating menu works with elements that have a z-index greater than 1000.

Tech Stack

• React
• Storybook
• Tailwind CSS
• React-Select

Getting Started

Follow these instructions to set up and run the project locally.

Prerequisites

• Node.js (v14 or higher)
• npm (v6 or higher)

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone <repository-url>
   cd <repository-directory>
   

2. Run Dependencies:

   npm install
   

Running the Project To start the Component development server, run the application, Storybook and view the components This will start Storybook and open it in your default web browser at http://localhost:6006.

npm run storybook

To Download this package to your react project simply use

npm install dropdown-testing-app

Then use

import Dropdown from 'dropdown-testing-app'

Next, create 2 files in your root folder called .babelrc

{
  "presets": ["@babel/preset-env", "@babel/preset-react"],
  "ignore": ["/node_modules/(?!dropdown-testing-app)/"]
}

babel.config.js

module.exports = {
  presets: [
    '@babel/preset-env',
    '@babel/preset-react'
  ],
  ignore: [/node_modules\/(?!dropdown-testing-app)/]
};

Then, make sure you are also install rewired and customized-cra Rewired

npm install --save-dev react-app-rewired

customized-cra

npm install --save-dev customize-cra

Then, add config-override.js

const { override, addBabelPreset, babelInclude } = require('customize-cra');
const path = require('path');

module.exports = override(
  addBabelPreset('@babel/preset-react'),
  babelInclude([
    path.resolve('src'),
    path.resolve('node_modules/dropdown-testing-app')
  ])
);

Lastly, change the scripts on your package.json to:

"scripts": {
    "start": "react-app-rewired start",
    "build": "react-app-rewired build",
    "test": "react-app-rewired test",
    "eject": "react-scripts eject"
  }