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.
Slick is a jQuery plugin for creating carousels that supports multiple slides, responsive layouts, and touch events. It is similar to Swiper but relies on jQuery, which might not be ideal for modern projects that do not use jQuery.
Glide.js is a dependency-free JavaScript ES6 slider and carousel. It's lightweight, flexible and fast. Designed to slide, no less, no more. It compares to Swiper in terms of being touch-friendly and responsive, but it emphasizes simplicity and performance.
Flickity is a touch, responsive, flickable carousel library. It has features like draggable slides, group cells, and adaptive height. It is similar to Swiper but offers a different set of features and API options, focusing on being flickable and physics-based interactions.
Owl Carousel is a touch-enabled jQuery plugin that lets you create a beautiful responsive carousel slider. While it offers similar functionality to Swiper, it is built on top of jQuery, which might not be suitable for projects that aim to avoid jQuery dependencies.
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Most modern mobile touch slider and framework with hardware accelerated transitions
The npm package swiper receives a total of 2,809,105 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.
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