flatpickr + LiveView example

app.js

// assets/js/app.js

// ...
import Pickr from "./pickr"

const hooks = {
  Pickr
}

// ...

let liveSocket = new LiveSocket("/live", Socket, { hooks, params: { _csrf_token: csrfToken } })

pickr-index.js

// assets/js/pickr/index.js

import flatpickr from "flatpickr";

const Pickr = {
  mounted() {
    this.pickr = flatpickr(this.el, {
      wrap: true,
      altInput: this.el.dataset.pickrAltFormat ? true : false,
      altFormat: this.el.dataset.pickrAltFormat || "d M Y",
      dateFormat: this.el.dataset.pickrDateFormat || "Y-m-d"
    })
  },
  updated() {
    const altFormat = this.el.dataset.pickrAltFormat
    const wasFormat = this.pickr.config.altFormat
    if (altFormat !== wasFormat) {
      this.pickr.destroy()
      this.pickr = flatpickr(this.el, {
        wrap: true,
        altInput: this.el.dataset.pickrAltFormat ? true : false,
        altFormat: this.el.dataset.pickrAltFormat || "d M Y",
        dateFormat: this.el.dataset.pickrDateFormat || "Y-m-d"
      })
    }
  },
  destroyed() {
    this.pickr.destroy()
  }
}

export default Pickr

pickr_live.ex

# lib/my_app_web/live/pickr_live.ex

defmodule MyAppWeb.PickrLive do
  use MyAppWeb, :live_view

  @impl Phoenix.LiveView
  def render(assigns) do
    ~L"""
    <h2>flatpickr example</h2>

    <form id="pickr-form" action="#" phx-change="validate">
      <div id="starts-at-pickr" class="flatpickr" phx-update="ignore" phx-hook="Pickr" data-pickr-alt-format="<%= @format %>">
        <label for="starts-at">Starts at</label>
        <input type="text" id="starts-at" name="pickr[starts_at]" placeholder="Select Start Date.." data-input />
      </div>

      <div id="ends-at-pickr" class="flatpickr" phx-update="ignore" phx-hook="Pickr" data-pickr-alt-format="<%= @format %>">
        <label for="ends-at">Ends at</label>
        <input type="text" id="ends-at" name="pickr[ends_at]" placeholder="Select End Date.." data-input />
      </div>
    </form>

    <%= if @values do %>
    <p>Values: <code><%= @values %></code></p>
    <% end %>

    <hr />

    <form id="format" action="#" phx-change="format">
    <label>Alt Format</label>
    <input type="text" name="format" value="<%= @format %>"/>
    </form>
    """
  end

  @impl Phoenix.LiveView
  def handle_event("validate", %{"pickr" => _} = values, socket) do
    {:noreply, assign(socket, :values, inspect(values, pretty: true))}
  end

  def handle_event("format", %{"format" => format}, socket) do
    {:noreply, assign(socket, :format, format)}
  end

  @impl Phoenix.LiveView
  def mount(_, _, socket) do
    {:ok, socket |> assign(:values, nil) |> assign(:format, "")}
  end
end

This is what I needed! It's funny because I saw your ElixirConf talk on Phoenix the other day, and I should have known my google search would have led to you one way or another 😂

Greetings, I am new to Phoenix and LiveView. I am trying to implement this but the issues I am having pertain to the css. It appears as though the css renders the datepicker internals at the bottom of the page constantly and does not wait to be clicked on the datepicker input. Am I doing something wrong or do I need to do some more work for modern versions of liveview?