You can add a date picker to ui_component form component.
Field with date picker, you need to add field form element type is a date.
<field name=”birthday” formElement=”date”>
Code Snippet to add for a ui_component form.xml file,
<field name="birthday" formElement="date"> <argument name="data" xsi:type="array"> <item name="config" xsi:type="array"> <item name="source" xsi:type="string">customer</item> </item> </argument> <settings> <validation> <rule name="validate-date" xsi:type="boolean">true</rule> </validation> <dataType>text</dataType> <visible>true</visible> </settings> </field>
You can validate a date by adding a rule to <settings> tab with,
<validation> <rule name="validate-date" xsi:type="boolean">true</rule> </validation>
Using the above code snippet, you can able to add date-picker in UI component form.