react-soft-slider

Demo [Source]

React-soft-slider is a minimally-featured carousel. It focuses on providing the best user experience for manipulating slides. It doesn't try to implement additional features such as pagination dots, next and previous buttons, autoplay. If you're looking for a slider that has all this, there's plenty of alternatives out there.

This allows react-soft-slider to be highly impartial when it comes to styling, so you shouldn't be fighting too hard to making the slider slider look the way you want.

• Touch-gesture compatible: handles swipe and drag on mobile and desktop devices
• Spring animations: driven by high-performance springs
• Impartial styling: you are responsible for the styling of your slides
• Fully responsive: as long as your slides styling is responsive as well!
• Dynamic number of slides: you can add or remove slides on the fly

React-soft-slider is powered by react-spring for springs animation and react-use-gesture for handling the drag gesture.

Installation

npm install react-soft-slider

⚠️ You also want to add the intersection-observer and resize-observer polyfills for full browser support. Check out adding the polyfills for details about how you can include it.

Usage

<Slider /> has a very limited logic, and essentially does two things:

1. it positions the slider to the slide matching the index you passed as a prop
2. when the user changes the slide, it will then fire onIndexChange that will pass you the new index. You will usually respond by updating the slider index prop:

import { Slider } from 'react-soft-slider'

const slides = ['red', 'blue', 'yellow', 'orange']
const style = { width: 300, height: '100%', margin: '0 10px' }

function App() {
  const [index, setIndex] = React.useState(0)

  return (
    <Slider
      index={index}
      onIndexChange={setIndex}
      style={{ width: 400, height: 200 }}
    >
      {slides.map((color, i) => (
        <div key={i} style={{ ...style, background: color }} />
      ))}
    </Slider>
  )
}

As you can see from the example, any child of the <Slider /> component is considered as a slide. You are fully responsible for the appearance of the slides, and each slide can be styled independently.

Note: although the above example uses hooks, react-soft-slider is compatible with Class-based components. However, since it internally uses hooks, it requires React 16.8+.

Props

The <Slider /> component accepts the following props:

Name	Type	Description	Default Value
children	node	elements you should pass to the slider and that will be considered as slides	Required
index	number	the index of the slide that should be shown by the slider	Required
onIndexChange()	(newIndex: number) => void	function called by the slider when the slide index should change	Required
indexRange	[number,number]	sets the minimum and maximum index range the slider should slide through. If the maximum index is negative, then it's set relatively to the children length. See example here.
enabled	boolean	enables or disables the slider gestures	true
vertical	boolean	enables vertical sliding mode	false
draggedScale	Number	scale factor of the slides when dragged	1.0
draggedSpring	object	spring between the pointer and the dragged slide	{ tension: 1200, friction: 40 }
trailingSpring	object	spring of the other slides	{ tension: 120, friction: 30 }
releaseSpring	object	spring used when the slides rest (user releases the pointer)	{ tension: 120, friction: 30 }
trailingDelay	Number	delay of trailing slides (in ms)	50
onDragStart()	(pressedIndex: number) => void	function called when the drag starts, passing the index of the slide being dragged as an argument
onDragEnd()	(pressedIndex: number) => void	function called when the drag ends, passing the index of the slide being dragged as an argument
className	string	CSS class passed to the slider wrapper
style	object	style passed to the slider wrapper
slideStyle	object or (i: number) => object	style passed to the slides
slideClassName	string	CSS class passed to the slides
slideAlign	string (align-items prop)	slide alignment ('center', 'flex-start', 'flex-end')	'center'

Springs configuration

React-soft-slider uses two springs, one for the dragged slide, and one for the other slides, that you can configure to your liking. It accepts any options supported by react-spring, including durations if you're not happy with how springs feel see here for more info.

Gotchas

Sizing the slider

The slider wrapper has a default width set to 100%, so that it fills its container by default. You can override this behaviour by passing your own style or className props.

Sizing your slides relatively to the slider

If you want to size your slides relatively to the slider width (let's say width: 80%), you'll need to rely on slideStyle set to {{ minWidth: '80%' }} and styling your slide with width set to 100%. The same logic applies for height when in vertical sliding mode.

Don't use transform styling in slideStyle

React-soft-slider uses the transform attribute to make slides move so transform attributes in slideStyle will get overriden.

React-soft-slider is open to suggestions!

React-soft-slider will probably never include slider peripheral features, but is open to suggestions to make handling your slides easier!

Polyfills

You can import the IntersectionObserver polyfill and ResizeObserver polyfill directly or use a service like polyfill.io to add it when needed.

yarn add intersection-observer resize-observer-polyfill

Then import it in your app:

import 'intersection-observer'
import 'resize-observer-polyfill'

If you are using Webpack (or similar) you could use dynamic imports, to load the Polyfill only if needed. A basic implementation could look something like this:

/**
 * Do feature detection, to figure out which polyfills needs to be imported.
 **/
async function loadPolyfills() {
  if (typeof window.IntersectionObserver === 'undefined') {
    await import('intersection-observer')
  }
  if (typeof window.ResizeObserver === 'undefined') {
    await import('resize-observer-polyfill')
  }
}