react-slick

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.

README

react-slick

Carousel component built with React. It is a react port of slick carousel

Important

Breaking changes in react-slick@0.14

• slickGoTo prop is deprecated in favor of slickGoTo method. Check this slickGoTo usage example.
• dist folder will be removed from the repo to simply PR review process. If you are using bower or relying on the dist files in githib repo, use dist files from unpkg.com

  https://unpkg.com/react-slick@0.13.6/dist/react-slick.min.js

Installation

npm install react-slick

Also install slick-carousel for css and font

npm install slick-carousel

or add cdn link in your html

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/slick-carousel/1.6.0/slick.min.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/slick-carousel/1.6.0/slick-theme.min.css" />

Demos

PlayGround

Use jsfiddle template to try react-slick with different settings.

Filing issues

Please replicate your issue with jsfiddle template and post it along with issue to make it easy for me to debug.

Starter Kit

Checkout yeoman generator to quickly get started with 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>
    );
  }
});

Property	Type	Description	Working
accessibility	bool	Enables tabbing and arrow key navigation	Yes
className	String	Additional class name for the inner slider div	Yes
adaptiveHeight	bool	Adjust the slide's height automatically	Yes
arrows	bool	Should we show Left and right nav arrows	Yes
nextArrow	React Component	Use this component for the next arrow button	Yes
prevArrow	React Component	Use this component for the prev arrow button	Yes
autoplay	bool	Should the scroller auto scroll?	Yes
autoplaySpeed	int	delay between each auto scoll. in ms	Yes
centerMode	bool	Should we centre to a single item?	Yes
centerPadding
cssEase
dots	bool	Should we show the dots at the bottom of the gallery	Yes
dotsClass	string	Class applied to the dots if they are enabled	Yes
draggable	bool	Is the gallery scrollable via dragging on desktop?	Yes
easing	string
fade	bool	Slides use fade for transition	Yes
focusOnSelect	bool	Go to slide on click	Yes
infinite	bool	should the gallery wrap around it's contents	Yes
initialSlide	int	which item should be the first to be displayed	Yes
lazyLoad	bool	Loads images or renders components on demands	Yes
pauseOnHover	bool	prevents autoplay while hovering	Yes
responsive	array	Array of objects in the form of { breakpoint: int, settings: { ... } } The breakpoint int is the maxWidth so the settings will be applied when resolution is below this value. Breakpoints in the array should be ordered from smalles to greatest. Use 'unslick' in place of the settings object to disable rendering the carousel at that breakpoint. Example: [ { breakpoint: 768, settings: { slidesToShow: 3 } }, { breakpoint: 1024, settings: { slidesToShow: 5 } }, { breakpoint: 100000, settings: 'unslick' } ]	Yes
rtl	bool	Reverses the slide order	Yes
slide	string
slidesToShow	int	Number of slides to be visible at a time	Yes
slidesToScroll	int	Number of slides to scroll for each navigation item
speed	int
swipe	bool
swipeToSlide	bool	Allow users to drag or swipe directly to a slide irrespective of slidesToScroll	Yes
touchMove	bool
touchThreshold	int
variableWidth	bool
useCSS	bool	Enable/Disable CSS Transitions	Yes
vertical	bool	Vertical slide mode	Yes
afterChange	function	callback function called after the current index changes	Yes
beforeChange	function	callback function called before the current index changes	Yes
slickGoTo	int	go to the specified slide number

Methods

• slickNext() - function called to change current slide on next slide (Example)
• slickPrev() - function called to change current slide on previous slide (Example)
• slickGoTo(slideNumber) - function called to change current slide to given slide number (Example)

Custom next/prev arrows

To customize the next/prev arrow elements, simply create new React components and set them as the values of nextArrow and prevArrow.

class LeftNavButton extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return <button {...this.props}>Next</button>  
  }
}

Important: be sure that you pass your component's props to your clickable element like the example above. If you don't, your custom component won't trigger the click handler.

You can also set onClick={this.props.onClick} if you only want to set the click handler.

Flexbox support

If you have flex property on container div of slider, add below css

* {
  min-height: 0;
  min-width: 0;
}

Development

Want to run demos locally

git clone https://github.com/akiran/react-slick
npm install
npm start
open http://localhost:8000

Polyfills for old IE support

matchMedia support from media-match

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