react-filter-builder

A React component for building queries/filters. See the demo.

This component provides a simple UI to build a query (or set of filters) for a data set, based on custom filters and operators.

It is intended to build Json-Query-Language, but operators can be defined and handled however you want.

Installation

npm install react-filter-builder

For default styles, you'll also need to load the stylesheet style.css

Usage

Props

• filterDefs: (required) an array of objects that define all possible filters that can be applied to the query
• handleQueryChange: (required) a function that gets called every time the query changes, to be called with one argument: the new query
• initialFilters: (optional) filters with which to initialize

Simple Usage

import FilterBuilder from 'react-filter-builder';
 
const myFilterDefs = [
  {
    field: 'name',
    label: 'Name',
    operators: [
      {
        label: 'Is',
        operator: 'eq',
        inputType: 'text',
      }
    ],
  }
];
 
function handleQueryChange(query) {
  // Do stuff with the query
}
 
<FilterBuilder filterDefs={myFilterDefs} handleQueryChange={handleQueryChange} />

filterDefs

filterDefs is an array of objects that define all possible filters that can be applied to the query. Each object in the array has the following fields:

• field: (required) the field on which to filter, will be passed into the query (i.e. 'first_name')
• label: (required) the display label for the filter (i.e. 'First Name')
• operators: (required) an array of operator objects that are supported on this filter (see operators below)
• shouldDisableFilter: (optional) a function to determine whether the filter should be disabled. When disabled, a filter will not appear in the list of available filters, and any currently applied filters of that type will be "grayed out" in the list and not included in the query. This is useful for indicating that a filter is "incompatible" with something else.

Example:

const myFilterDefs = [
  {
    field: 'first_name',
    label: 'First Name',
    operators: [/* see section on operators below */],
    shouldDisableFilter: () => true,
  },
];

Operators

operators, within each filterDef object, is an array of operator objects that describes which operators are supported by the filter and what the input type should look like for that operator.

For example, a first_name filter might support an operator called "startswith" and use a text input, while a created_on filter might support an operator called "between" and use a datepicker range input.

Each operator object has (or can have) the following fields:

• operator: (required) the operator value to be passed to the query (i.e. 'in')
• label: (required) the display label for the operator, displayed as a radio button option within a filter (i.e. 'is any of')
• inputType: (required) the input type to display for that operator. Supported values are 'text' and 'none' (use a defaultValue, see below)
• defaultValue: (optional) the default value for a filter. This is especially useful if you want your operator to have an inputType of 'none' to have a "hard-coded" filter.
• shouldApplyFilter: (optional) a function to determine whether to apply the filter to the query, to be called with one argument: the current user-entered value. This is useful if you don't want to apply, say, filters with empty strings.
• valueTransformer: (optional) a function to transform your value before applying to the query, to be called with one argument: the current user-entered value.

Example:

const myOperators = [
  {
    label: 'Starts With',
    operator: 'startswith',
    inputType: 'text',
    shouldApplyFilter: value => value && value.length > 0,
    valueTransformer: value => 'foo' + value,
  },
  {
    operator: 'eq',
    label: 'Is Empty',
    inputType: 'none',
    defaultValue: null,
  },
];

Query

The query passed to your handleQueryChange function will be an array of objects, each with three fields: field, operator, and value.

Initial Filters (optional)

Optionally, you can pass an array of filters to initialize the component. Each filter should have the following fields:

• field: the filtered field
• operatorIndex: the index (in operators of the filtered field's filterDef) of the applied operator. (This has to be an index because a filter can have multiple operators with the same operator string.)
• value: the value

Example:

const myInitialFilters = {
  field: 'first_name',
  operatorIndex: 0,
  value: 'jim',
}

Development

1. Clone this repo
2. cd react-filter-builder
3. yarn
4. npm start
5. Open localhost:8080

Publishing a new version

1. npm version <x.x.x>
2. npm publish