React Alice Carousel

React Alice Carousel is a React component for building content galleries, content rotators and any React carousels.

👉  Live demo (API): v2.x.x

👉  Previous version (API): v1.x.x

Features

• Auto Height
• Auto Play
• Auto Width
• Custom animation modes
• Custom rendered slides
• Infinite loop
• Lazy loading
• Mobile friendly
• Multiple items in the slide
• Responsive design
• Stage padding
• Show / hide anything (indicators, arrows, slides indexes)
• Swipe to slide
• Server side rendering friendly
• Touch and Drag support
• TypeScript

Installation

npm i react-alice-carousel

Style import

# CSS
@import "react-alice-carousel/lib/alice-carousel.css";

# SCSS
@import "react-alice-carousel/lib/scss/alice-carousel.scss";

Usage

import React from 'react';
import AliceCarousel from 'react-alice-carousel';
import 'react-alice-carousel/lib/alice-carousel.css';

const handleDragStart = (e) => e.preventDefault();

const items = [
  <img src="path-to-img" onDragStart={handleDragStart} role="presentation" />,
  <img src="path-to-img" onDragStart={handleDragStart} role="presentation" />,
  <img src="path-to-img" onDragStart={handleDragStart} role="presentation" />,
];

const Gallery = () => {
  return (
    <AliceCarousel mouseTracking items={items} />
  );
}

Options

• activeIndex : Number, default 0 - Set carousel at the specified position.

• animationDuration: Number, default 400 - Set duration of animation.

• animationEasingFunction: String or Function, default ease - Property sets how an animation progresses through the duration of each cycle.

• animationType: String(slide, fadeout), default slide - Set type of animation.

• autoHeight: Boolean, default false - Set auto height mode.

• autoWidth: Boolean, default false - Set auto width mode.

• autoPlay: Boolean, default false - Set autoplay mode.

• autoPlayControls: Boolean, default false - Show/hide play/pause buttons.

• autoPlayDirection: String(ltr, rtl), default ltr - Set autoplay direction value.

• autoPlayInterval: Number, default 400 - Set autoplay interval value.

• autoPlayStrategy: String(default, action, all, none) - Set a strategy for autoplay mode

  • default - pause automatic playback on the hover
  • action - stop automatic playback if user action was detected
  • all - merge default && action strategies
  • none - ignore any user actions when the autoPlay property was specified

• controlsStrategy: String (default, responsive, alternate or combined string "default,alternate") - Set a strategy for gallery controls.

  • default - use controls as is
  • alternate - show each dot for each slide
  • responsive - navigation will be hidden if the number of gallery elements is equal to the number of items in the slide.

• disableButtonsControls: Boolean, default false - Disable buttons controls.

• disableDotsControls: Boolean, default false - Disable dots controls.

• disableSlideInfo: Boolean, default true - Disable information about current slide.

• infinite: Boolean, default false - Set infinite mode.

• innerWidth: Number, default 0 - Set a static value for a breakpoint(key) of the "responsive" property. For example, if you can't use 'window.innerWidth' during SSR.

• items: Array, default undefined - Set gallery items, preferable to use this property instead of children.

• keyboardNavigation: Boolean, default false - Enable keyboard navigation

  • ArrowLeft - go to the prev slide
  • ArrowRight - go to the next slide
  • Space - run/stop autoplay mode if autoPlay property is equal true

• mouseTracking: Boolean, default false - Enable mouse drag animation.

• paddingLeft: Number, default 0 - Set the gallery offset from the left.

• paddingRight: Number, default 0 - Set the gallery offset from the right.

• renderKey: Number, default undefined - Auxiliary property, allows call the render method without changing the state inside the gallery instance.

• responsive: Object, default undefined - Set number of items in the slide. The key is the breakpoint (default is the result of: () => window.innerWidth or innerWidth property if the last presented).

      {
        0: {
            items: 1,
        },
        1024: {
            items: 3
        }
      }
  

• swipeDelta: Number, default 20 - Set minimum distance to the start of the swiping (px).

• swipeExtraPadding: Number, default 200 - Set maximum distance from initial place before swipe action will be stopped (px).

• ssrSilentMode: Boolean, default true - Disable classnames modifiers for server side rendering.

• touchTracking: Boolean, default true - Enable touch move animation.

• touchMoveDefaultEvents: Boolean, default true - Enable touch move default events on swiping. If false was specified, this prevents vertical scrolling of the parent elements during the swipe.

• onInitialized(e: EventObject): Function - Fired as callback after the gallery was created.

• onResizeEvent(e: Event): Function - Fired during the "resize" event to determine whether to call the event handler. Default result of () => true;

• onResized(e: EventObject): Function - Fired as callback after the gallery was resized.

• onSlideChange(e: EventObject): Function - Fired before the event object changes.

• onSlideChanged(e: EventObject): Function - Fired after the event object was changed.

• renderSlideInfo(e: SlideInfo): Rendering function - create a custom component.

• renderDotsItem(e: DotsItem): Rendering function - create a custom component.

• renderPrevButton({ isDisabled }): Rendering function - create a custom component.

• renderNextButton({ isDisabled }): Rendering function - create a custom component.

• renderPlayPauseButton({ isPlaying }): Rendering function - create a custom component.

Methods

• slidePrev(e: Event) => void : Go to the prev slide.
• slideNext(e: Event) => void : Go to the next slide.
• slideTo(activeIndex?: number) => void : Go to the specified slide.

Types

type EventObject = {
  item: number;
  slide: number;
  itemsInSlide: number;
  isPrevSlideDisabled: boolean;
  isNextSlideDisabled: boolean;
  type: EventType;
};

type SlideInfo = {
  item: number;
  itemsCount: number;
};

type DotsItem = {
  isActive: boolean;
  activeIndex: number;
};

enum EventType {
  ACTION = 'action', // used if a general user action (button click or swipe)
  INIT = 'init',     // used if the initial event was triggered
  RESIZE = 'resize', // used if the gallery size was changed
  UPDATE = 'update', // used if the gallery was updated with props (activeIndex)
}

CSS classes

.alice-carousel

.alice-carousel__stage
.alice-carousel__stage-item

.alice-carousel__prev-btn
.alice-carousel__prev-btn-item

.alice-carousel__next-btn
.alice-carousel__next-btn-item

.alice-carousel__play-btn
.alice-carousel__play-btn-item

.alice-carousel__dots
.alice-carousel__dots-item

.alice-carousel__slide-info
.alice-carousel__slide-info-item

CSS modifiers

.alice-carousel.__ssr

.alice-carousel__stage-item.__active
.alice-carousel__stage-item.__cloned
.alice-carousel__stage-item.__target

.alice-carousel__next-btn-item.__inactive
.alice-carousel__prev-btn-item.__inactive

.alice-carousel__play-btn-item.__pause

.alice-carousel__dots-item.__active
.alice-carousel__dots-item.__custom

.alice-carousel__slide-info-item.__separator

Build the project locally

Clone

git clone https://github.com/maxmarinich/react-alice-carousel
cd react-alice-carousel

Run

npm ci
npm start

Test

npm test

License

MIT