React Round Carousel

An infinitely scrollable 3D carousel component for React

This is an infinitely scrollable, touch enabled, 3D, image carousel component which can be used in a React application.

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Install

First install the component using your preferred package manager:

npm i react-round-carousel

# or

yarn add react-round-carousel

Usage

Then import the component in your application. Here is an example:

The slides (or items) should have the following shape:

Prop	Type	Required	Description	Example
alt	string	false	Alternative text for the slide image	‘This is an example alt text’
image	string	true	Path or URL to an image	‘https://source.unsplash.com/random/210x210’
content	ReactNode	true	A ReactNode representing the content of the slide	<div><strong>Slide Title</strong></div>

import * as React from 'react';
import { createRoot } from 'react-dom/client';

import { Carousel, CarouselRef, CarouselItem } from 'react-round-carousel';

// Create an array of Carousel Items
const items: CarouselItem[] = Array(20)
	.fill('')
	.map((_: string, index: number) => ({
		alt: 'A random photo',
		image: `https://picsum.photos/${210 + index}`,
		content: (
			<div>
				<strong>Round Carousel</strong>
				<span>Slide number {index + 1}</span>
			</div>
		)
	}));

const App = () => {
	const carouselRef = React.createRef<CarouselRef>();

	return <Carousel ref={carouselRef} items={items} slideOnClick />;
};

createRoot(document.getElementById('root')!).render(<App />);

Options

The component accepts the following configuration options as props:

Prop	Type	Required	Description	Default
classNamePrefix	string	false	CSS classname prefix for the Carousel component	‘carousel’
items	CarouselItem	true	An array of CarouselItems	[]
itemWidth	number	false	Width of each of the carousel items	210
nextButtonContent	string/ReactNode	false	Content of the next button	‘Next’
prevButtonContent	string/ReactNode	false	Content of the previous button	‘Previous’
showControls	boolean	false	Show/hide navigation controls	true
slideOnClick	boolean	false	Slide to the clicked slide	false

Controlling from outside

It is possible to control the component from outside - for example from a parent component. In order to do so, a React Ref should be used. The current reference contains several methods, including:

• next - Slides the carousel to the next slide.
• prev - Slides the carousel to the previous slide.
• getItems - Returns an array with all items passed to the carousel.
• getSelectedIndex - Returns the active slide index of the carousel.
• setSelectedIndex - Sets the active slide index of the carousel and slides to this slide.

The demo shows how to use these methods.

Style

In order to achieve the layout shown in the demo, you should add styles to your markup.

There is an already existing stylesheet which can be found in the src folder and can be imported:

• in your JS entrypoint

import 'react-round-carousel/src/index.css';

• in your CSS entrypoint

@import 'react-round-carousel/src/index.css';

If you don’t want to use the default stylesheet, you can create and use your own.

LICENSE

MIT

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