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>
  );
}

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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 compatible
• Keyboard navigation
• Custom animation duration
• Auto play w/ custom interval
• Infinite loop
• Horizontal or Vertical directions
• Supports images, videos, text content or anything you want. Each direct child represents one slide!
• Supports external controls
• Highly customizable:
  • Custom thumbs
  • Custom arrows
  • Custom indicators
  • Custom status

Important links:

• Codesandbox playground
• Storybook
• Changelog
• Before contributing
• Troubleshooting

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:

• Codesandbox: https://codesandbox.io/s/lp602ljjj7

Installing as a package

yarn add react-responsive-carousel

Usage

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import "react-responsive-carousel/lib/styles/carousel.min.css"; // requires a loader
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'));

// Don't forget to include the css in your page

// Using webpack or parcel with a style loader
// import styles from 'react-responsive-carousel/lib/styles/carousel.min.css';

// Using html tag:
// <link rel="stylesheet" href="<NODE_MODULES_FOLDER>/react-responsive-carousel/lib/styles/carousel.min.css"/>

Customizing

Items (Slides)

By default, each slide will be rendered as passed as children. If you need to customize them, use the prop renderItem.

renderItem: (item: React.ReactNode, options?: { isSelected: boolean }) => React.ReactNode;

Thumbs

By default, thumbs are generated extracting the images in each slide. If you don't have images on your slides or if you prefer a different thumbnail, use the method renderThumbs to return a new list of images to be used as thumbs.

renderThumbs: (children: React.ReactChild[]) => React.ReactChild[]

Arrows

By default, simple arrows are rendered on each side. If you need to customize them and the css is not enough, use the renderArrowPrev and renderArrowNext. The click handler is passed as argument to the prop and needs to be added as click handler in the custom arrow.

renderArrowPrev: (clickHandler: () => void, hasPrev: boolean, label: string) => React.ReactNode;
renderArrowNext: (clickHandler: () => void, hasNext: boolean, label: string) => React.ReactNode;

Indicators

By default, indicators will be rendered as those small little dots in the bottom part of the carousel. To customize them, use the renderIndicator prop.

renderIndicator: (
    clickHandler: (e: React.MouseEvent | React.KeyboardEvent) => void,
    isSelected: boolean,
    index: number,
    label: string
) => React.ReactNode;

Take full control of the carousel

If none of the previous options are enough, you can build your own controls for the carousel. Check an example at http://react-responsive-carousel.js.org/storybook/?path=/story/02-advanced--with-external-controls

Videos

If your carousel is about videos, keep in mind that it's up to you to control which videos will play. Using the renderItem prop, you will get information saying if the slide is selected or not and can use that to change the video state. Only play videos on selected slides to avoid issues. Check an example at http://react-responsive-carousel.js.org/storybook/?path=/story/02-advanced--youtube-autoplay-with-custom-thumbs

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Contributing

The contributing guide contains details on how to create pull requests and setup your dev environment. Please read it before contributing!

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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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License