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 😂