The convenient JavaScript Web Component, which lets you reliably create beautiful buttons, where people can add events to their calendars.
For everybody, who wants to include a button at their website or app, which enables users to easily add a specific event to their calendars. It's main goal is to keep this process as easy as possible at maximum compatibility. Simply define your button configuration and everything else is automatically generated by the script. Supporting calendars at Apple, Google, Microsoft (365, Outlook, Teams), Yahoo, and generic iCal.
The script, since it is a web component, integrates easily with any usual HTML webpage (VanillaJS way) as well as popular JavaScript frameworks and libraries like Angular, React, Vue, Svelte, and more.
In terms of system support, all modern browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari) on Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS as well as rather restricted webview environments like the Instagram in-app browser are supported.
See add-to-calendar-button.com for a live demo and playground.
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Simple and convenient integration of 1 or many buttons, configurable directly within the HTML code.
- Google Calendar.
- Apple Calendar.
- Yahoo Calender.
- Microsoft 365, Outlook, and Teams.
- Automatically generated iCal/ics files (for all other calendars and cases).
- Timed and all-day events.
- One-time, multi-date, recurring.
- Calendar subscription.
- Most robust time zone and daylight saving management (via our own TimeZones iCal Library).
- Dynamic dates (like "today + 3").
- Beautiful and adjustable UI.
- Light and dark mode.
- Multiple themes.
- Optimized and adjustable UX (for desktop and mobile).
- Dynamic dropdown positioning.
- Taking care of all those edge cases, where some scenarios do not support specific setups (like WebView blocking downloads); utilizing beautiful user guidance workarounds.
- Auto-generated Schema.org rich (structured) data for better SEO.
- Full support for mouse, touch, or keyboard input (W3C WAI compliant).
- Supporting 20+ languages, incl. RTL text for Arabic & Persian; but also custom labels and text blocks (i18n).
- Well documented code, to easily understand the processes and build on top of it.
- No external service or backend dependencies.
- Fully GDPR, CCPA, and LGPD compliant by design - without the need of signing some data processing agreement.
- FREE and easy.
You can use the jsDelivr CDN and load the respective script directly into your website.
Place the script tag inside the <head> section.
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/add-to-calendar-button@2" async defer></script>Import the package using the following npm command:
npm install add-to-calendar-buttonImport the module into your project/component
import 'add-to-calendar-button';Based on your framework/library, you might need to make minor adjustments to the respective config. Find the details for the most common ones below.
At the app.module.ts, import CUSTOM_ELEMENTS_SCHEMA from @angular/core and add the following to the @NgModule block:
@NgModule({
//(...),
schemas: [CUSTOM_ELEMENTS_SCHEMA],
})Option A:
With basic React projects, the web component works out-of-the-box.
If you are working with TypeScript or other stricter setups, you would need to define a respective global JSX interface.
declare global {
namespace JSX {
interface IntrinsicElements {
['add-to-calendar-button']: CustomElement<AddToCalendarButton>;
}
}
}Option B:
If this does not work OR if you want to keep it more convenient, you should use the official Add to Calendar Button React Wrapper (click here).
This approach also enables you to provide object and array type props as objects and arrays. Find all further information within the wrapper repository's Readme file.
In the vite.config.js/ts, add the following compiler option to treat all tags with a dash as custom elements and get rid of the warning. Anything else works out-of-the-box.
compilerOptions: {
isCustomElement: (tag) => tag.includes('-')
}If you want to be more precise, you can also write something like tag.startsWith('add-') to apply this rule only to tags starting with "add-".
Works out-of-the-box. Nice!
For Astro as well as other SSR setups, you might want to include the script from the CDN rather than working with the npm package!
If you still want to go for the npm way, you would need to add something like this to your page (instead of the import statement):
<script type="module" hoist>
const observer = new IntersectionObserver((entries) => {
for (const entry of entries) {
if (!entry.isIntersecting) continue;
observer.disconnect();
import('../../node_modules/add-to-calendar-button/dist/module/index.js');
}
});
const instances = document.querySelectorAll('add-to-calendar-button');
for (const instance of instances) observer.observe(instance);
</script>A button can be easily created by using the respective custom element.
<add-to-calendar-button></add-to-calendar-button>You can then configure the button by simply adding the options as attributes to it. Boolean values (true/false) can be set as optionName="true" or simply by adding optionName to the tag. Not setting it at all would be automatically translate to "false".
Theoretically, you could also add all the configuration as JSON structured String by placing this string as the TextContent of the tag. This is mainly due to backwards compatibility reasons and no longer recommended, since it also does not detect changes!
Mind that for auto-generating rich snippets, a location would be mandatory as well.
A time zone is not required, but recommended.
<add-to-calendar-button
name="Add the title of your event"
startDate="2022-02-21"
options="['Google']"
>
</add-to-calendar-button><add-to-calendar-button
name="Add the title of your event"
description="A nice description does not hurt"
startDate="2022-02-21"
endDate="2022-03-24"
startTime="10:13"
endTime="17:57"
location="Somewhere over the rainbow"
options="['Apple','Google','iCal','Microsoft365','Outlook.com','Yahoo']"
timeZone="Europe/Berlin"
trigger="click"
inline
listStyle="modal"
iCalFileName="Reminder-Event"
>
</add-to-calendar-button>You can find more examples as well as an interactive playground at the demo page: add-to-calendar-button.com.
Find all information about the available attributes and how to configure specific features on the demo page at add-to-calendar-button.com/configuration.
Find all changes in the dedicated file at CHANGELOG.md.
Anyone is welcome to contribute, but mind the guidelines:
IMPORTANT NOTE: Run npm install and npm run format to auto-lint!
Copyright (c) Jens Kuerschner.
Licensed under Elastic License 2.0 (ELv2).
About open-source: We consider ourselves open-source. However, we are also aware of the controversy coming with licenses like the one selected. Therefore, and contrary to many other companies and products, we no longer use the term in any marketing statements unless it is about other pieces which really are under an official OSI license.
Speaking about the license: We love it, because it is so simple. Have a look! You are basically free to do anything unless you are not offering the tool itself as a product or service; or want to remove copyright and license stuff. In doubt, simply ask and we find a way. :)
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