react-responsive-carousel

What is react-responsive-carousel?

The react-responsive-carousel package is a flexible and responsive carousel component for React applications. It allows developers to create image sliders, carousels, and galleries with ease, providing a variety of customization options and features.

What are react-responsive-carousel's main functionalities?

Basic Carousel

This code demonstrates a basic carousel with three images. Each image has an associated legend. The carousel is responsive and will adjust to the size of its container.

import { Carousel } from 'react-responsive-carousel';
import 'react-responsive-carousel/lib/styles/carousel.min.css';

function BasicCarousel() {
  return (
    <Carousel>
      <div>
        <img src="image1.jpg" alt="Image 1" />
        <p className="legend">Legend 1</p>
      </div>
      <div>
        <img src="image2.jpg" alt="Image 2" />
        <p className="legend">Legend 2</p>
      </div>
      <div>
        <img src="image3.jpg" alt="Image 3" />
        <p className="legend">Legend 3</p>
      </div>
    </Carousel>
  );
}

Custom Controls

This code demonstrates a carousel with custom controls. The carousel will autoplay, loop infinitely, and respond to keyboard arrows and touch gestures. It also includes indicators and arrows for navigation.

import { Carousel } from 'react-responsive-carousel';
import 'react-responsive-carousel/lib/styles/carousel.min.css';

function CustomControlsCarousel() {
  return (
    <Carousel
      showArrows={true}
      showStatus={false}
      showIndicators={true}
      infiniteLoop={true}
      useKeyboardArrows={true}
      autoPlay={true}
      stopOnHover={true}
      swipeable={true}
      dynamicHeight={true}
      emulateTouch={true}
    >
      <div>
        <img src="image1.jpg" alt="Image 1" />
        <p className="legend">Legend 1</p>
      </div>
      <div>
        <img src="image2.jpg" alt="Image 2" />
        <p className="legend">Legend 2</p>
      </div>
      <div>
        <img src="image3.jpg" alt="Image 3" />
        <p className="legend">Legend 3</p>
      </div>
    </Carousel>
  );
}

Thumbnail Navigation

This code demonstrates a carousel with thumbnail navigation. Thumbnails of the images are displayed below the main carousel, allowing users to navigate to specific images by clicking on the thumbnails.

import { Carousel } from 'react-responsive-carousel';
import 'react-responsive-carousel/lib/styles/carousel.min.css';

function ThumbnailCarousel() {
  return (
    <Carousel showThumbs={true}>
      <div>
        <img src="image1.jpg" alt="Image 1" />
        <p className="legend">Legend 1</p>
      </div>
      <div>
        <img src="image2.jpg" alt="Image 2" />
        <p className="legend">Legend 2</p>
      </div>
      <div>
        <img src="image3.jpg" alt="Image 3" />
        <p className="legend">Legend 3</p>
      </div>
    </Carousel>
  );
}

Other packages similar to react-responsive-carousel

react-slick

react-slick is a popular carousel component for React that is based on the slick-carousel library. It offers a wide range of features, including responsive design, autoplay, and custom navigation. Compared to react-responsive-carousel, react-slick provides more advanced customization options and a larger community of users.

swiper

Swiper is a modern touch slider that is highly customizable and supports a wide range of features, including vertical and horizontal sliders, parallax effects, and lazy loading. It is not limited to React and can be used with other frameworks as well. Swiper is known for its performance and flexibility, making it a strong alternative to react-responsive-carousel.

pure-react-carousel

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README

React Responsive Carousel

Powerful, lightweight and fully customizable carousel component for React apps.

Features

• Responsive
• Mobile friendly
• Swipe to slide
• Mouse emulating touch
• Server side rendering
• Keyboard navigation
• Custom animation duration
• Auto play
• Custom auto play interval
• Infinite loop
• Horizontal or Vertical directions
• Supports images, videos, text content or anything you want. Each direct child represents one slide!
• Supports any flux library (use selectedItem prop to set from the app state, and onChange callback to get the new position)
• Show/hide anything (thumbs, indicators, arrows, status)

Demo

http://leandrowd.github.io/react-responsive-carousel/

Check it out these cool demos created using storybook. The source code for each example is available here

Installing as a package

npm install react-responsive-carousel --save

Usage

var React = require('react');
var ReactDOM = require('react-dom');
var Carousel = require('react-responsive-carousel').Carousel;

var DemoCarousel = React.createClass({
    render() {
        return (
            <Carousel axis="horizontal|vertical" showThumbs={true|false} showArrows={true|false} onChange={onChange} onClickItem={onClickItem} onClickThumb={onClickThumb} dynamicHeight emulateTouch>
                <div>
                    <img src="assets/1.jpeg" />
                    <p className="legend">Legend 1</p>
                </div>
                <div>
                    <img src="assets/2.jpeg" />
                    <p className="legend">Legend 2</p>
                </div>
                <div>
                    <img src="assets/3.jpeg" />
                    <p className="legend">Legend 3</p>
                </div>
            </Carousel>
        );
    }
});
ReactDOM.render(<DemoCarousel />, document.querySelector('.demo-carousel'));

// Don't forget to include the css in your page
// <link rel="stylesheet" href="carousel.css"/>

Attributes	Type	Default	Description
showArrows	boolean	true	show prev and next arrows
showStatus	boolean	true	show index of the current item. i.e: (1/8)
showIndicators	boolean	true	show little dots at the bottom with links for changing the item
showThumbs	boolean	true	show thumbnails of the images
infiniteLoop	boolean	false	infinite loop sliding
selectedItem	number	0	selects an item though props / defines the initial selected item
axis	string	horizontal	changes orientation - accepts horizontal and vertical
onChange	function	-	Fired when changing positions
onClickItem	function	-	Fired when an item is clicked
onClickThumb	function	-	Fired when a thumb it clicked
width	string	-	Allows to set a fixed width
useKeyboardArrows	boolean	false	Adds support to next and prev through keyboard arrows
autoPlay	boolean	false	Auto play
stopOnHover	boolean	true	Stop auto play while mouse is over the carousel
interval	number	5000	Interval of auto play
transitionTime	number	350	Duration of slide transitions (in miliseconds)
useKeyboardArrows	boolean	false	Adds support to next and prev through keyboard arrows
swipeScrollTolerance	number	5	Allows scroll when the swipe movement occurs in a different direction than the carousel axis and within the tolerance - Increase for loose - Decrease for strict
dynamicHeight	boolean	false	Adjusts the carousel height if required. -- Do not work with vertical axis --
emulateTouch	boolean	false	Allows mouse to simulate swipe
statusFormatter	func	(current, total) => ${current} of ${total}	Allows custom formatting of the status indicator

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Contributing

Feel free to submit a PR or raise issues. When submitting a PR, please:

• add the required tests and an example of usage to stories/index.js
• don't submit changes to the /lib folder as it will be generated again after the merge.
• ensure you have the editorConfig plugin or the same code style settings as defined in .editorConfig to avoid excess of spaces in diffs

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Setting up development environment

• git clone [e-mail]:leandrowd/react-responsive-carousel.git
• npm install
• npm start
• Open your favourite browser on localhost:8000 - livereload will be enabled and tests will run on each change

The fastest dev environment is on node 6. If you have nvm installed, just run nvm use 6. Tests in travis will run on node 4 and 6

Running only tests

• npm test

Running storybook

• npm run storybook

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Only after merged back to master

Publish to npm

• npm run publish-to-npm

Pubish to gh-pages

• npm run publish-to-gh-pages

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Examples

webpack + es6 setup

https://github.com/leandrowd/demo-react-responsive-carousel-es6

Storybook

http://react-responsive-carousel.js.org/storybook/

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