Create Responsive Carousel with React

While working on web applications, we commonly need to show multiple images with the help of a slider.

 

In this article, We will see how to create an image slider with Carousel in React.js application. We will use here an npm package. 

Let's Get Started

 

Create React App

Run below command to create a basic react app

 

Now move to the project folder, with below command

 

Install  React Responsive Carousel Package using NPM

Run below command inside project folder to install the needed package for the carousel slider

 

Create Component for Carousel

create a file named carousel.js inside the src folder, you can put it wherever you prefer.  Insert below code in the component file created.

We need to do below tasks in this component

1. Import carousel package

 

2. Import the carousel CSS fil

 

3. Insert 3 images inside public folder to show in the slider

Now the final code inside the carousel component will look like below:

 

 

Add Carousel component in App Component(App.js)

 

Run the app

Now check the carousel added in the react.js application after running it with below command:

 

If everything is done correctly, the app will look like below:

We have successfully created a basic slider within React.js application using the Responsive Carousel package, It's a simple slider with the thumbnail and previous and next option.

Modify Controls

Keyboard control, Infinite Loop and Autoplay feature can be added easily with this package.

 

Keyboard Control: After adding this, keyboard next previous keys will be used in the slider

Infinite Loop: This feature adds the feature to loop the images infinitely

Auto Play: It makes the slider running automatically without manual intervention.

 

Other Carousel Methods

There are huge list of methods available with this npm package to modify the carousel slider. Click here to see all the lists on the official website.

 

Conclusion

We just created a basic Carousel Slider using react responsive carousel package. 

You can also find other demos of React.js Sample Projects here to start working on enterprise-level applications.

That’s all for now. Thank you for reading and I hope this article helped you.

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