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

Installation

  npm install react-slick

Also install slick-carousel for css and font

  bower install slick-carousel

Demos

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
className	String	Additional class name for the inner slider div	Yes
adaptiveHeight
arrows	bool	Should we show Left and right nav arrows	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
focusOnSelect	bool
infinite	should the gallery wrap around it's contents	Yes
initialSlide	int	which item should be the first to be displayed	Yes (since pull req #17)
responsive
rtl	bool
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
touchMove	bool
touchThreshold	int
variableWidth	bool
vertical	bool
afterChange	function	callback function called when the current index changes	Yes (since pull req #17)