embla-carousel

What is embla-carousel?

Embla Carousel is a lightweight, extendable, and customizable carousel library for modern web applications. It provides a simple API for creating responsive and touch-friendly carousels with various customization options.

What are embla-carousel's main functionalities?

Basic Carousel Setup

This code initializes a basic Embla Carousel on an HTML element with the class 'embla'.

const emblaNode = document.querySelector('.embla');
const embla = EmblaCarousel(emblaNode);

Custom Options

This code demonstrates how to initialize an Embla Carousel with custom options such as looping and speed.

const emblaNode = document.querySelector('.embla');
const options = { loop: true, speed: 10 };
const embla = EmblaCarousel(emblaNode, options);

Adding Plugins

This code shows how to add plugins to the Embla Carousel, such as the Autoplay plugin for automatic sliding.

import EmblaCarousel from 'embla-carousel';
import Autoplay from 'embla-carousel-autoplay';

const emblaNode = document.querySelector('.embla');
const embla = EmblaCarousel(emblaNode, { loop: true }, [Autoplay()]);

Event Handling

This code demonstrates how to handle events in Embla Carousel, such as logging the selected slide index when a slide is selected.

const emblaNode = document.querySelector('.embla');
const embla = EmblaCarousel(emblaNode);

embla.on('select', () => {
  console.log('Slide selected:', embla.selectedScrollSnap());
});

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slick-carousel

Slick Carousel is a popular and fully-featured carousel library that supports multiple breakpoints, lazy loading, and various transition effects. It is easy to set up and use but may not be as lightweight or modular as Embla Carousel.

react-slick

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README

Embla Carousel

Extensible bare bone carousels for the web. Build awesome carousels by extending them with your own CSS and JavaScript. Embla Carousel is dependency free and 100% open source.

 Installation 

 API Reference 

 Examples 

 

Contributors

Thank you to all contributors for making Embla Carousel awesome! Contributions are welcome.

Open Source

^{Copyright © 2019-present, David Cetinkaya.}
Embla is MIT licensed 💖

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