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swiper
Most modern mobile touch slider and framework with hardware accelerated transitions
Swiper
Swiper - is the free and most modern mobile touch slider with hardware accelerated transitions and amazing native behavior. It is intended to be used in mobile websites, mobile web apps, and mobile native/hybrid apps.
Swiper is not compatible with all platforms, it is a modern touch slider which is focused only on modern apps/platforms to bring the best experience and simplicity.
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Most modern mobile touch slider and framework with hardware accelerated transitions
The npm package swiper receives a total of 2,389,947 weekly downloads. As such, swiper popularity was classified as popular.
We found that swiper demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 24 Mar 2026
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