react-multi-carousel 👋

Production-ready, lightweight fully customizable React carousel component that rocks supports multiple items and SSR(Server-side rendering).

Hello world!

We are on a very excited journey towards version 3.0 of this component which will be rewritten in hooks/context completely. It means smaller bundle size, performance improvement and easier customization of the component and so many more benefits.

It would mean so much if you could provide help towards the further development of this project as we do this open source work in our own free time especially during this covid-19 crisis.

If you are using this component seriously, please donate or talk to your manager as this project increases your income too. It will help us make releases, fix bugs, fulfill new feature requests faster and better.

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Features.

• Server-side rendering
• Infinite mode
• Dot mode
• Custom animation
• AutoPlay mode
• Auto play interval
• Supports images, videos, everything.
• Responsive
• Swipe to slide
• Mouse drag to slide
• Keyboard control to slide
• Multiple items
• Show / hide arrows
• Custom arrows / control buttons
• Custom dots
• Custom styling
• Accessibility support
• Center mode.
• Show next/previous set of items partially
• RTL support

Shoutouts 🙏

Big thanks to BrowserStack for letting the maintainers use their service to debug browser issues.

Documentation

Other important links.

• Code sandbox
• Contributing
• Changelog
• Releases
• TypeScript usage
• SSR demo

Bundle size

Bundle-size. 2.5kB

Demo.

Documentation is here.

Demo for the SSR

Try to disable JavaScript to test if it renders on the server-side.

Codes for SSR at github.

Codes for the documentation at github.

Install

$ npm install react-multi-carousel --save

import Carousel from 'react-multi-carousel';
import 'react-multi-carousel/lib/styles.css';

How the SSR mode works?

Codes for SSR at github.

• Demo for the SSR are at here
• Try to disable JavaScript to test if it renders on the server-side.

Here is a lighter version of the library for detecting the user's device type alternative

You can choose to only bundle it on the server-side.

Minimum working set up.

import Carousel from "react-multi-carousel";
import "react-multi-carousel/lib/styles.css";
const responsive = {
  superLargeDesktop: {
    // the naming can be any, depends on you.
    breakpoint: { max: 4000, min: 3000 },
    items: 5
  },
  desktop: {
    breakpoint: { max: 3000, min: 1024 },
    items: 3
  },
  tablet: {
    breakpoint: { max: 1024, min: 464 },
    items: 2
  },
  mobile: {
    breakpoint: { max: 464, min: 0 },
    items: 1
  }
};

  <div>Item 1</div>
  <div>Item 2</div>
  <div>Item 3</div>
  <div>Item 4</div>
;

Common Usage

import Carousel from "react-multi-carousel";
import "react-multi-carousel/lib/styles.css";

const responsive = {
  desktop: {
    breakpoint: { max: 3000, min: 1024 },
    items: 3,
    slidesToSlide: 3 // optional, default to 1.
  },
  tablet: {
    breakpoint: { max: 1024, min: 464 },
    items: 2,
    slidesToSlide: 2 // optional, default to 1.
  },
  mobile: {
    breakpoint: { max: 464, min: 0 },
    items: 1,
    slidesToSlide: 1 // optional, default to 1.
  }
};

  <div>Item 1</div>
  <div>Item 2</div>
  <div>Item 3</div>
  <div>Item 4</div>
;

Custom Arrows.

You can pass your own custom arrows to make it the way you want, the same for the position. For example, add media query for the arrows to go under when on smaller screens.

Your custom arrows will receive a list of props/state that's passed back by the carousel such as the currentSide, is dragging or swiping in progress.

Code

const CustomRightArrow = ({ onClick, ...rest }) => {
  const {
    onMove,
    carouselState: { currentSlide, deviceType }
  } = rest;
  // onMove means if dragging or swiping in progress.
  return <button> onClick()} /&gt;;
};
} /&gt;;

Custom button group.

This is very useful if you don't want the dots, or arrows and you want to fully customize the control functionality and styling yourself.

Code

const ButtonGroup = ({ next, previous, goToSlide, ...rest }) => {
  const { carouselState: { currentSlide } } = rest;
  return (
    <div> // remember to give it position:absolute
       previous()} /&gt;
       next()} /&gt;
       goToSlide(currentSlide + 1)}&gt; Go to any slide 
    </div>
  );
};
}&gt;
  
  

renderButtonGroupOutside

Passing this props would render the button group outside of the Carousel container. This is done using React.fragment

<div>
  }&gt;
    
    
  
</div>

Custom dots.

You can pass your own custom dots to replace the default one.

Custom dots can also be a copy or an image of your carousel item. See example in this one

The codes for this example

You custom dots will receive a list of props/state that's passed back by the carousel such as the currentSide, is dragging or swiping in progress.

Code

const CustomDot = ({ onClick, ...rest }) => {
  const {
    onMove,
    index,
    active,
    carouselState: { currentSlide, deviceType }
  } = rest;
  const carouselItems = [CarouselItem1, CaourselItem2, CarouselItem3];
  // onMove means if dragging or swiping in progress.
  // active is provided by this lib for checking if the item is active or not.
  return (
    </button><button> onClick()}
    &gt;
      {React.Children.toArray(carouselItems)[index]}
    </button>
  );
};
}&gt;
  {carouselItems}
;

renderDotsOutside

Passing this props would render the dots outside of the Carousel container. This is done using React.fragment

<div>
  
    
    
  
</div>

partialVisible props.

Shows the next items partially, this is very useful if you want to indicate to the users that this carousel component is swipable, has more items behind it.

This is different from the "centerMode" prop, as it only shows the next items. For the centerMode, it shows both.

const responsive = {
  desktop: {
    breakpoint: { max: 3000, min: 1024 },
    items: 3,
    partialVisibilityGutter: 40 // this is needed to tell the amount of px that should be visible.
  },
  tablet: {
    breakpoint: { max: 1024, min: 464 },
    items: 2,
    partialVisibilityGutter: 30 // this is needed to tell the amount of px that should be visible.
  },
  mobile: {
    breakpoint: { max: 464, min: 0 },
    items: 1,
    partialVisibilityGutter: 30 // this is needed to tell the amount of px that should be visible.
  }
}

  
  

centerMode

Shows the next items and previous items partially.

afterChange callback.

This is a callback function that is invoked each time when there has been a sliding.

 {
    doSpeicalThing();
  }}
/>

beforeChange call back

This is a callback function that is invoked each time before a sliding.

 {
    doSpeicalThing();
  }}
/>

Combine beforeChange and nextChange, real usage.

They are very useful in the following cases:

• The carousel item is clickable, but you don't want it to be clickable while the user is dragging it or swiping it.

 this.setState({ isMoving: true })}
  afterChange={() => this.setState({ isMoving: false })}
>
  <a> {
      if (this.state.isMoving) {
        e.preventDefault();
      }
    }}
    href="https://w3js.com"
  &gt;
    Click me
  </a>

• Preparing for the next slide.

 this.setState({ nextSlide: nextSlide })}>
  <div>Initial slide</div>
  <div> {
      if (this.state.nextSlide === 1) {
        doVerySpecialThing();
      }
    }}
  &gt;
    Second slide
  </div>

Skipping callbacks

When calling the goToSlide function on a Carousel the callbacks will be run by default. You can skip all or individul callbacks by passing a second parameter to goToSlide.

this.Carousel.goToSlide(1, true); // Skips both beforeChange and afterChange
this.Carousel.goToSlide(1, { skipBeforeChange: true }); // Skips only beforeChange
this.Carousel.goToSlide(1, { skipAfterChange: true }); // Skips only afterChange

focusOnSelect

Go to slide on click and make the slide a current slide.

Using ref.

 (this.Carousel = el)} arrows={false} responsive={responsive}>
  
  

<button> {
    const nextSlide = this.Carousel.state.currentSlide + 1;
     // this.Carousel.next()
     // this.Carousel.goToSlide(nextSlide)
  }}&gt;Click me</button>

additionalTransfrom Props.

This is very useful when you are fully customizing the control functionality by yourself like this one

Code

For example if you give to your carousel item padding left and padding right 20px. And you have 5 items in total, you might want to do the following:

 (this.Carousel = el)} additionalTransfrom={-20 * 5} /> // it needs to be a negative number

Specific Props

Name	Type	Default	Description
responsive	object	{}	Numbers of slides to show at each breakpoint
deviceType	string	''	Only pass this when use for server-side rendering, what to pass can be found in the example folder
ssr	boolean	false	Use in conjunction with responsive and deviceType prop
slidesToSlide	Number	1	How many slides to slide.
draggable	boolean	true	Optionally disable/enable dragging on desktop
swipeable	boolean	true	Optionally disable/enable swiping on mobile
arrows	boolean	true	Hide/Show the default arrows
renderArrowsWhenDisabled	boolean	false	Allow for the arrows to have a disabled attribute instead of not showing them
removeArrowOnDeviceType	string or array	''	Hide the default arrows at different break point, should be used with responsive props. Value could be mobile or ['mobile', 'tablet'], can be a string or array
customLeftArrow	jsx	null	Replace the default arrow with your own
customRightArrow	jsx	null	Replace the default arrow with your own
customDot	jsx	null	Replace the default dots with your own
customButtonGroup	jsx	null	Fully customize your own control functionality if you don't want arrows or dots
infinite	boolean	false	Enables infinite scrolling in both directions. Carousel items are cloned in the DOM to achieve this.
minimumTouchDrag	number	50	The amount of distance to drag / swipe in order to move to the next slide.
afterChange	function	null	A callback after sliding everytime.
beforeChange	function	null	A callback before sliding everytime.
sliderClass	string	'react-multi-carousel-track'	CSS class for inner slider div, use this to style your own track list.
itemClass	string	''	CSS class for carousel item, use this to style your own Carousel item. For example add padding-left and padding-right
containerClass	string	'react-multi-carousel-list'	Use this to style the whole container. For example add padding to allow the "dots" or "arrows" to go to other places without being overflown.
dotListClass	string	'react-multi-carousel-dot-list'	Use this to style the dot list.
keyBoardControl	boolean	true	Use keyboard to navigate to next/previous slide
autoPlay	boolean	false	Auto play
autoPlaySpeed	number	3000	The unit is ms
showDots	boolean	false	Hide the default dot list
renderDotsOutside	boolean	false	Show dots outside of the container
partialVisible	boolean	string	false
customTransition	string	transform 300ms ease-in-out	Configure your own anaimation when sliding
transitionDuration	`number	300	The unit is ms, if you are using customTransition, make sure to put the duration here as this is needed for the resizing to work.
focusOnSelect	boolean	false	Go to slide on click and make the slide a current slide.
centerMode	boolean	false	Shows the next items and previous items partially.
additionalTransfrom	number	0	additional transfrom to the current one.
shouldResetAutoplay	boolean	true	resets autoplay when clicking next, previous button and the dots
rewind	boolean	false	if infinite is not enabled and autoPlay explicitly is, this option rewinds the carousel when the end is reached (Lightweight infinite mode alternative without cloning).
rewindWithAnimation	boolean	false	when rewinding the carousel back to the beginning, this decides if the rewind process should be instant or with transition.
rtl	boolean	false	Sets the carousel direction to be right to left

Author

👤 Yi Zhuang

• Github: @YIZHUANG

🤝 Contribute

Please read https://github.com/YIZHUANG/react-multi-carousel/blob/master/contributing.md

Submit an issue for feature request or submit a pr.

Local development.

• cd app
• npm install
• npm run dev

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