Dynoselect

Dynoselect is a collection of select components for Reflex. The base component allows users to search for options and create new ones:

In addition, there are specialized components for standard use-cases like time zone and language selection. The options listed by them are available in over 100 languages (and over 400 language variants!) so you don't have to translate them yourself. Just specify the IETF language tag you would like to use, e.g. "de" for German (as spoken in Germany) or "en-GB" for English (as spoken in the United Kingdom).

There is a special "locale" available for the language select component: Displaying each language option in the respective language itself. For this, just specify None for the locale parameter of the component:

Selecting one's own time zone is a surprisingly difficult task for most users. This has been studied quite extensively in this Article. The time zone selection component makes this task as simple as possible.

Not having to select your time zone at all is of course most user-friendly. Therefore, the component tries to automatically detect the user's time zone. Manual selection is only necessary if the result turns out to be incorrect.

Following the advice given in the above article, the component lists time zones as city, country (UTC offset). This is because most people can name a city or country representative of their time zone. The offset is given last, because people expect the list to be ordered alphabetically and often do not know their offset anyway. It mainly serves as confirmation. The offset displayed takes into account whether daylight saving time is currently in effect in each listed time zone and is updated every time the dropdown is opened.

The following example shows how to use the components within a Reflex project:

import reflex as rx
from reflex_dynoselect import dynoselect, dynotimezone, dynolanguage

options = [
    {"value": "ocean", "label": "Ocean"},
    {"value": "blue", "label": "Blue"},
    {"value": "purple", "label": "Purple"},
    {"value": "green", "label": "Green"},
    {"value": "red", "label": "Red"},
    {"value": "yellow", "label": "Yellow"},
]

class State(rx.State):
    """The app state."""
    pass

def index() -> rx.Component:
    return rx.vstack(
        dynoselect(
            options,
            placeholder="Select a color",
            search_placeholder="Search for a color",
        ),
        dynotimezone(
            "en",
            placeholder="Timezone", 
            search_placeholder="Search timezone..."
        ),        
        dynolanguage(
            "en",
            placeholder="Language", 
            search_placeholder="Search for a language..."
        ),
        align="center",
        spacing="4"
    )

# Add state and page to the app.
app = rx.App()
app.add_page(index)

Options are given as a list of dictionaries. Each dictionary must contain a label and a value key with strings as values. The label is displayed to the user while the value key can be used for internal identifiers. Optionally, one can provide a keywords key to include alternative phrases that are included in the search but not displayed to the user.

The selected attribute contains the complete dictionary of the currently selected option. In addition to the value, label, and keywords keys, one can add arbitrary keys to the dictionary to store additional information about an option.

Parameters

• options: A list of dictionaries containing the options. The dictionary must contain a label and a value key with strings as values. The value of the label key is displayed to the user while the value key can be used as internal identifier. Optionally, one can provide a keywords key to include alternative phrases that are included in the search but not displayed to the user. This is intended to improve the search tolerance so that users can find options even if they enter synonyms. You may provide keywords either as a string or as a list of strings. For example, the option

  {"value": "ocean", "label": "Ocean", "keywords": ["blue", "water"]}
  

  allows to input "water" or "blue" in order to search for the color Ocean.

• default_option: The default option to select. By default, no option is selected.

• placeholder: The placeholder text that is shown when no option is selected.

• search_placeholder: The placeholder text for the search input field.

• size: Relative size of the component. Allowed values are "1", "2", and "3".

• weight: The weight of the text. Allowed values are "none", "light", "regular", "medium", and "bold".

• radius: The edge radius of the component. Allowed values are "none", "small", "medium", "large", and "full".

• height: The height of the component menu. Can be given as a CSS value like "10rem" or "100%".

• padding: The padding around the border of the select menu.

• indent: The indentation of the select menu. If "center" is given, the indentation is applied horizontally to both sides and therefore acts as padding. Otherwise, it is applied to one side only and works as indentation.

• align: The alignment of the options. Allowed values are "left", "center", and "right".

• create_option: The option dictionary to create a new entry. If create_option is None, the feature is deactivated. If the option is a dictionary, it specifies the value and label attributes used for the create option. You may either provide a static text or refer to the current search phrase by using "{}" as placeholder. For example:

  dynoselect(
      options,
      placeholder="Select a color",
      search_placeholder="Search for a color",
      create_option=dict(value="custom", label='Create new "{}"'),
  )
  

  The label given in the example above would be displayed as Create new "Apple" if the search phrase is "Apple". Regarding the value key, you can use any value you like.

• on_select: Event handler that is called when the user selects an option. Note that the event handler is called even if the user selects the same value as before.

• icon: The name of the lucide icon to display.

• content_props: Additional properties that are passed on to the reflex.popover.content component used by Dynoselect.

• root_props: Additional properties that are passed on to the reflex.popover.root component used by Dynoselect.

Additional options for dynotimezone:

• locale: The locale to display the time zone options in.

Additional options for dynolanguage:

• locale: The locale to use for the displayed language options. If None, the names of all languages are displayed in the respective languages themselves.
• only : Optional iterable with IETF language tags to display. Default is None, so that all available language options are displayed. Example:

  dynolanguage(
      placeholder="Language", 
      search_placeholder="Search for a language...",
      only={"de", "en", "en-GB", "es", "fr", "fr-CH"},
  ),
  

  This will display options for German (as spoken in Germany), English (as spoken in the United States), English (as spoken in the UK), Spanish (as spoken in Spain), French (as spoken in France), and French (as spoken in Switzerland).

Installation

The components have been tested without activating Tailwind explicitly. However, if the component looks strange, you may want to activate it as described in the official documentation.

The components can be installed using the following command:

pip install reflex-dynoselect