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
pure-react-carousel is a lightweight and flexible carousel component for React. It focuses on providing a simple and accessible API while maintaining high performance. Compared to react-responsive-carousel, pure-react-carousel offers a more minimalistic approach with fewer built-in features, but it allows for greater customization through its component-based architecture.
React Responsive Carousel
Help wanted
Things here are running very slowly as I have a lot of other stuff to take care at the moment so please don't be upset if I don't answer your question or if a PR sits unreviewed for a few days or weeks. Anyone interested in helping it move faster can help by submitting or reviewing PR's and answering each other's questions. (https://github.com/leandrowd/react-responsive-carousel/issues/160)
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)
Important links:
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
Customize it yourself:
Installing as a package
npm install react-responsive-carousel --save
Usage
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import "react-responsive-carousel/lib/styles/carousel.min.css";
import { Carousel } from 'react-responsive-carousel';
class DemoCarousel extends Component {
render() {
return (
<Carousel>
<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'));
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 |
thumbWidth | number | undefined | optionally specify pixel width (as an integer) of a thumbnail (including any padding) to avoid calculating values (helps with server-side renders or page cache issues) |
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 |
verticalSwipe | string | standard | changes vertical swipe scroll direction - accepts standard and natural |
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) |
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 |
swipeable | boolean | true | Enables swiping gestures |
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 |
centerMode | boolean | false | Enables centered view with partial prev/next slides. Only works with horizontal axis. |
centerSlidePercentage | number | 80 | optionally specify percentage width (as an integer) of the slides in centerMode |
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Contributing
Check the contributing guide
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Raising issues
When raising an issue, please add as much details as possible. Screenshots, video recordings, or anything else that can make it easier to reproduce the bug you are reporting.
- A new option is to create an example with the code that causes the bug. Fork this example from codesandbox and add your code there. Don't forget to fork, save and add the link for the example to the issue.
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Setting up development environment
git clone git@github.com: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
Running storybook
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Only after merged back to master
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/
Codesandbox
https://codesandbox.io/s/lp602ljjj7
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License