How to create a date range widget?

Steps to get the Solr date range widget working.

Steps

Enable the Facets Range Widget sub-module.

Install the jQuery-ui-Slider-Pips library, as described in the README.txt file in that sub-module's folder.  After playing with this for sometime to get it working, I found the best way to install is via composer.

composer require "bower-asset/jquery-ui-slider-pips:^1.11"

However, calling this command could produce the following error

[InvalidArgumentException]                                                                                                                                                                   
  Could not find a matching version of package bower-asset/jquery-ui-slider-pips. Check the package spelling, your version constraint and that the package is available in a stability which   
  matches your minimum-stability (dev).

To resolve this issue, in your composer.json file add the following lines to the repositories area:

        {
            "type": "composer",
            "url": "https://asset-packagist.org"
        },

So it will now appear as

    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "composer",
            "url": "https://packages.drupal.org/8"
        },
        {
            "type": "composer",
            "url": "https://asset-packagist.org"
        },

This action will install the latest version of range slider and required components.  The response to this request will be 

./composer.json has been updated
Running composer update bower-asset/jquery-ui-slider-pips
> DrupalProject\composer\ScriptHandler::checkComposerVersion
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies
Lock file operations: 3 installs, 0 updates, 0 removals
  - Locking bower-asset/jquery (3.6.0)
  - Locking bower-asset/jquery-ui (1.12.1)
  - Locking bower-asset/jquery-ui-slider-pips (v1.11.4)
Writing lock file
Installing dependencies from lock file (including require-dev)
Package operations: 3 installs, 0 updates, 0 removals
  - Downloading bower-asset/jquery (3.6.0)
  - Downloading bower-asset/jquery-ui (1.12.1)
  - Downloading bower-asset/jquery-ui-slider-pips (v1.11.4)
  - Installing bower-asset/jquery (3.6.0): Extracting archive
  - Installing bower-asset/jquery-ui (1.12.1): Extracting archive
  - Installing bower-asset/jquery-ui-slider-pips (v1.11.4): Extracting archive