React NavBar - Keyboard Support

An end user can use the following keys to interact with the UI component.

Key Action
Moves focus to the previous item.
Moves focus to the next item.

You can implement a custom handler for a key using the registerKeyHandler(key, handler) method.

jQuery
JavaScript
function registerKeyHandlers () {
    const navBar = $("#navBarContainer").dxNavBar("instance");
    navBar.registerKeyHandler("backspace", function(e) {
        // The argument "e" contains information on the event
    });
    navBar.registerKeyHandler("space", function(e) {
        // ...
    });
}
Angular
TypeScript
import { ..., ViewChild, AfterViewInit } from '@angular/core';
import { DxNavBarModule, DxNavBarComponent } from 'devextreme-angular';
// ...
export class AppComponent implements AfterViewInit {
    @ViewChild(DxNavBarComponent, { static: false }) navBar: DxNavBarComponent;
    // Prior to Angular 8
    // @ViewChild(DxNavBarComponent) navBar: DxNavBarComponent;

    ngAfterViewInit () {
        this.navBar.instance.registerKeyHandler('backspace', function(e) {
            // The argument "e" contains information on the event
        });
        this.navBar.instance.registerKeyHandler('space', function(e) {
            // ...
        });
    }
}
@NgModule({
    imports: [
        // ...
        DxNavBarModule
    ],
    // ...
})
Vue
<template>
    <DxNavBar :ref="myNavBarRef" />
</template>
<script>
import 'devextreme/dist/css/dx.common.css';
import 'devextreme/dist/css/dx.light.css';

import DxNavBar from 'devextreme-vue/nav-bar';

const myNavBarRef = 'my-nav-bar';

export default {
    components: {
        DxNavBar
    },
    data() {
        return {
            myNavBarRef
        }
    },
    computed: {
        navBar: function() {
            return this.$refs[myNavBarRef].instance;
        }
    },
    mounted: function() {
        this.navBar.registerKeyHandler('backspace', function(e) {
            // The argument "e" contains information on the event
        });
        this.navBar.registerKeyHandler('space', function(e) {
            // ...
        });
    }
}
</script>
React
App.js
import React from 'react';
import 'devextreme/dist/css/dx.common.css';
import 'devextreme/dist/css/dx.light.css';

import { NavBar } from 'devextreme-react/nav-bar';

class App extends React.Component {
    constructor(props) {
        super(props);

        this.navBarRef = React.createRef();
    }

    render() {
        return (
            <NavBar ref={this.navBarRef} />
        );
    }

    get navBar() {
        return this.navBarRef.current.instance;
    }

    componentDidMount() {
        this.navBar.registerKeyHandler('backspace', function(e) {
            // The argument "e" contains information on the event
        });
        this.navBar.registerKeyHandler('space', function(e) {
            // ...
        });
    }
}

export default App;
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