What is react-slick?
The react-slick npm package is a React component that provides a carousel/slider functionality. It is a wrapper around the popular Slick carousel jQuery plugin, offering a way to add carousel features to React applications. It supports a range of options and settings to customize the behavior and appearance of the carousel.
What are react-slick's main functionalities?
Simple Slider
This code sample demonstrates how to create a simple slider with dots, infinite looping, and a set speed for slide transitions.
import React from 'react';
import Slider from 'react-slick';
function SimpleSlider() {
const settings = {
dots: true,
infinite: true,
speed: 500,
slidesToShow: 1,
slidesToScroll: 1
};
return (
<Slider {...settings}>
<div><h3>Slide 1</h3></div>
<div><h3>Slide 2</h3></div>
<div><h3>Slide 3</h3></div>
</Slider>
);
}
export default SimpleSlider;
Responsive Slider
This code sample shows how to create a responsive slider that adjusts the number of slides shown based on the screen width.
import React from 'react';
import Slider from 'react-slick';
function ResponsiveSlider() {
const settings = {
dots: true,
infinite: false,
speed: 500,
slidesToShow: 4,
slidesToScroll: 4,
responsive: [
{
breakpoint: 1024,
settings: {
slidesToShow: 3,
slidesToScroll: 3,
infinite: true,
dots: true
}
},
{
breakpoint: 600,
settings: {
slidesToShow: 2,
slidesToScroll: 2
}
},
{
breakpoint: 480,
settings: {
slidesToShow: 1,
slidesToScroll: 1
}
}
]
};
return (
<Slider {...settings}>
<div><h3>Slide 1</h3></div>
<div><h3>Slide 2</h3></div>
<div><h3>Slide 3</h3></div>
<div><h3>Slide 4</h3></div>
</Slider>
);
}
export default ResponsiveSlider;
Custom Arrows
This code sample illustrates how to create a slider with custom arrow components for navigation.
import React from 'react';
import Slider from 'react-slick';
function CustomArrowsSlider() {
function SampleNextArrow(props) {
const { className, style, onClick } = props;
return (
<div
className={className}
style={{ ...style, display: 'block', background: 'red' }}
onClick={onClick}
/>
);
}
function SamplePrevArrow(props) {
const { className, style, onClick } = props;
return (
<div
className={className}
style={{ ...style, display: 'block', background: 'green' }}
onClick={onClick}
/>
);
}
const settings = {
dots: true,
infinite: true,
speed: 500,
slidesToShow: 1,
slidesToScroll: 1,
nextArrow: <SampleNextArrow />,
prevArrow: <SamplePrevArrow />
};
return (
<Slider {...settings}>
<div><h3>Slide 1</h3></div>
<div><h3>Slide 2</h3></div>
</Slider>
);
}
export default CustomArrowsSlider;
Other packages similar to react-slick
swiper
Swiper is a powerful and modern touch slider with hardware accelerated transitions. It is highly customizable and has a similar set of features to react-slick, such as responsive breakpoints, navigation, pagination, and more. Swiper also supports virtual slides and multi-row slides, which can be an advantage over react-slick.
react-responsive-carousel
This package provides a simple and customizable carousel component for React applications. It is less feature-rich compared to react-slick but offers a lightweight alternative with basic carousel functionalities like auto play, infinite loop, and custom rendering for arrows and indicators.
keen-slider
Keen-slider is a free library agnostic touch slider with native touch/swipe behavior and great performance. It is a lightweight alternative to react-slick and offers a minimalistic approach to sliders with no dependencies. It provides essential features like touch support and responsiveness but lacks some of the more advanced features found in react-slick.
react-slick
Carousel component built with React. It is a react port of slick carousel
Installation
npm install react-slick
Example
var React = require('react');
var Slider = require('react-slick');
var SimpleSlider = React.createClass({
render: function () {
var settings = {
dots: true,
infinite: true,
speed: 500,
slidesToShow: 1,
slidesToScroll: 1
};
return (
<Slider {...settings}>
<div><h3>1</h3></div>
<div><h3>2</h3></div>
<div><h3>3</h3></div>
<div><h3>4</h3></div>
<div><h3>5</h3></div>
<div><h3>6</h3></div>
</Slider>
);
}
});