Swiper React Components

Installation

Swiper React is available only via NPM as a part of the main Swiper library:

  npm i swiper

Usage

swiper/react exports 2 components: Swiper and SwiperSlide:

// Import Swiper React components
import { Swiper, SwiperSlide } from 'swiper/react';

// Import Swiper styles
import 'swiper/css';

export default () => {
  return (
    <Swiper
      spaceBetween={50}
      slidesPerView={3}
      onSlideChange={() => console.log('slide change')}
      onSwiper={(swiper) => console.log(swiper)}
    >
      <SwiperSlide>Slide 1</SwiperSlide>
      <SwiperSlide>Slide 2</SwiperSlide>
      <SwiperSlide>Slide 3</SwiperSlide>
      <SwiperSlide>Slide 4</SwiperSlide>
      ...
    </Swiper>
  );
};

By default Swiper React uses core version of Swiper (without any additional modules). If you want to use Navigation, Pagination and other modules, you have to install them first.

Here is the list of additional modules imports from swiper/modules:

Virtual - Virtual Slides module
Keyboard - Keyboard Control module
Mousewheel - Mousewheel Control module
Navigation - Navigation module
Pagination - Pagination module
Scrollbar - Scrollbar module
Parallax - Parallax module
FreeMode - Free Mode module
Grid - Grid module
Manipulation - Slides manipulation module (only for Core version)
Zoom - Zoom module
Controller - Controller module
A11y - Accessibility module
History - History Navigation module
HashNavigation - Hash Navigation module
Autoplay - Autoplay module
EffectFade - Fade Effect module
EffectCube - Cube Effect module
EffectFlip - Flip Effect module
EffectCoverflow - Coverflow Effect module
EffectCards - Cards Effect module
EffectCreative - Creative Effect module
Thumbs - Thumbs module

// import Swiper core and required modules
import { Navigation, Pagination, Scrollbar, A11y } from 'swiper/modules';

import { Swiper, SwiperSlide } from 'swiper/react';

// Import Swiper styles
import 'swiper/css';
import 'swiper/css/navigation';
import 'swiper/css/pagination';
import 'swiper/css/scrollbar';

export default () => {
  return (
    <Swiper
      // install Swiper modules
      modules={[Navigation, Pagination, Scrollbar, A11y]}
      spaceBetween={50}
      slidesPerView={3}
      navigation
      pagination={{ clickable: true }}
      scrollbar={{ draggable: true }}
      onSwiper={(swiper) => console.log(swiper)}
      onSlideChange={() => console.log('slide change')}
    >
      <SwiperSlide>Slide 1</SwiperSlide>
      <SwiperSlide>Slide 2</SwiperSlide>
      <SwiperSlide>Slide 3</SwiperSlide>
      <SwiperSlide>Slide 4</SwiperSlide>
      ...
    </Swiper>
  );
};

Note, Swiper React component will create required elements for Navigation, Pagination and Scrollbar if you pass these params without specifying its elements (e.g. without navigation.nextEl, pagination.el, etc.)

Styles

Swiper package contains different sets of CSS styles:

swiper/css - only core Swiper styles
swiper/css/bundle - all Swiper styles including all modules styles (like Navigation, Pagination, etc.)

Modules styles (not required if you already imported bundle styles):

swiper/css/a11y - styles required for A11y module
swiper/css/autoplay - styles required for Autoplay module
swiper/css/controller - styles required for Controller module
swiper/css/effect-cards - styles required for Cards Effect module
swiper/css/effect-coverflow - styles required for Coverflow Effect module
swiper/css/effect-creative - styles required for Creative Effect module
swiper/css/effect-cube - styles required for Cube Effect module
swiper/css/effect-fade - styles required for Fade Effect module
swiper/css/effect-flip - styles required for Flip Effect module
swiper/css/free-mode - styles required for Free Mode module
swiper/css/grid - styles required for Grid module
swiper/css/hash-navigation - styles required for Hash Navigation module
swiper/css/history - styles required for History module
swiper/css/keyboard - styles required for Keyboard module
swiper/css/manipulation - styles required for Manipulation module
swiper/css/mousewheel - styles required for Mousewheel module
swiper/css/navigation - styles required for Navigation module
swiper/css/pagination - styles required for Pagination module
swiper/css/parallax - styles required for Parallax module
swiper/css/scrollbar - styles required for Scrollbar module
swiper/css/thumbs - styles required for Thumbs module
swiper/css/virtual - styles required for Virtual module
swiper/css/zoom - styles required for Zoom module

Swiper props

Swiper React component receive all Swiper parameters as component props, plus some extra props:

Prop	Type	Default	Description
`tag`	`string`	`'div'`	Main Swiper container HTML element tag
`wrapperTag`	`string`	`'div'`	Swiper wrapper HTML element tag
`onSwiper`	`(swiper) => void`	`'div'`	Callback that receives Swiper instance

Also it supports all Swiper events in on{Eventname} format. For example slideChange event becomes onSlideChange prop:

  <Swiper
    onSlideChange={() => {/*...*/}}
    onReachEnd={() => {/*...*/}}
    ...
  >

SwiperSlide props

Prop	Type	Default	Description
`tag`	`string`	`'div'`	Swiper Slide HTML element tag
`zoom`	`boolean`	`false`	Enables additional wrapper required for zoom mode
`virtualIndex`	`number`		Actual swiper slide index. Required to be set for virtual slides

SwiperSlide render function

SwiperSlide component can accept render function that receives an object with the following properties:

isActive - true when current slide is active
isPrev - true when current slide is the previous from active
isNext - true when current slide is the next from active
isVisible - true when current slide is visible (watchSlidesProgress Swiper parameter must be enabled)
isDuplicate - true when current slide is a duplicate slide (when loop mode enabled) For example:

<Swiper>
  <SwiperSlide>
    {({ isActive }) => (
      <div>Current slide is {isActive ? 'active' : 'not active'}</div>
    )}
  </SwiperSlide>
</Swiper>

useSwiper

Swiper React provides useSwiper hook to easliy get the Swiper instance in components inside of Swiper:

// some-inner-component.jsx
import { React } from 'react';
import { useSwiper } from 'swiper/react';

export default function SlideNextButton() {
  const swiper = useSwiper();

  return (
    <button onClick={() => swiper.slideNext()}>Slide to the next slide</button>
  );
}

useSwiperSlide

useSwiperSlide is one more hook for components inside of Swiper slides to get the slide data (same data as in SwiperSlide render function)

// some-inner-component.jsx
import { React } from 'react';
import { useSwiperSlide } from 'swiper/react';

export default function SlideTitle() {
  const swiperSlide = useSwiperSlide();

  return (
    <p>Current slide is {swiperSlide.isActive ? 'active' : 'not active'}</p>
  );
}

Slots

Swiper React uses "slots" for content distribution. There are 4 slots available

container-start - element will be added to the beginning of swiper-container
container-end (default) - element will be added to the end of swiper-container
wrapper-start - element will be added to the beginning of swiper-wrapper
wrapper-end - element will be added to the end of swiper-wrapper

For example:

<Swiper>
  <SwiperSlide>Slide 1</SwiperSlide>
  <SwiperSlide>Slide 2</SwiperSlide>
  <span slot="container-start">Container Start</span>
  <span slot="container-end">Container End</span>
  <span slot="wrapper-start">Wrapper Start</span>
  <span slot="wrapper-end">Wrapper End</span>
</Swiper>

Will be rendered as:

<div class="swiper">
  <span slot="container-start">Container Start</span>
  <div class="swiper-wrapper">
    <span slot="wrapper-start">Wrapper Start</span>
    <div class="swiper-slide">Slide 1</div>
    <div class="swiper-slide">Slide 2</div>
    <span slot="wrapper-end">Wrapper End</span>
  </div>
  <span slot="container-end">Container End</span>
</div>

Virtual Slides

Virtual Slides rendering here is fully handled by React and not required anything except setting virtual:true property and setting virtualIndex on slides:

import { Virtual } from 'swiper/modules';
import { Swiper, SwiperSlide } from 'swiper/react';

// Import Swiper styles
import 'swiper/css';
import 'swiper/css/virtual';

export default () => {
  // Create array with 1000 slides
  const slides = Array.from({ length: 1000 }).map(
    (el, index) => `Slide ${index + 1}`
  );

  return (
    <Swiper modules={[Virtual]} spaceBetween={50} slidesPerView={3} virtual>
      {slides.map((slideContent, index) => (
        <SwiperSlide key={slideContent} virtualIndex={index}>
          {slideContent}
        </SwiperSlide>
      ))}
    </Swiper>
  );
};

Controller

Controller requires to pass one Swiper instance to another:

  import React, { useState } from 'react';
  import { Controller } from 'swiper/modules';
  import { Swiper, SwiperSlide } from 'swiper/react';

  const App = () => {
    // store controlled swiper instance
    const [controlledSwiper, setControlledSwiper] = useState(null);

    return (
      <main>
        {/* Main Swiper -> pass controlled swiper instance */}
        <Swiper modules={[Controller]} controller={{ control: controlledSwiper }} ...>
          {/* ... */}
        </Swiper>

        {/* Controlled Swiper -> store swiper instance */}
        <Swiper modules={[Controller]} onSwiper={setControlledSwiper} ...>
          {/* ... */}
        </Swiper>
      </main>
    )
  }

For two-way control (when both Swipers control each other) it should be like this:

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import { Controller } from 'swiper/modules';
import { Swiper, SwiperSlide } from 'swiper/react';

const App = () => {
  // store swiper instances
  const [firstSwiper, setFirstSwiper] = useState(null);
  const [secondSwiper, setSecondSwiper] = useState(null);

  return (
    <main>
      <Swiper
        modules={[Controller]}
        onSwiper={setFirstSwiper}
        controller={{ control: secondSwiper }}
      >
        {/* ... */}
      </Swiper>

      <Swiper
        modules={[Controller]}
        onSwiper={setSecondSwiper}
        controller={{ control: firstSwiper }}
      >
        {/* ... */}
      </Swiper>
    </main>
  );
};

Thumbs

Same as with controller we need to store thumbs instance and pass it to main gallery:

  import React, { useState } from 'react';
  import { Swiper, SwiperSlide } from 'swiper/react';
  import { Thumbs } from 'swiper/modules';

  const App = () => {
    // store thumbs swiper instance
    const [thumbsSwiper, setThumbsSwiper] = useState(null);

    return (
      <main>
        {/* Main Swiper -> pass thumbs swiper instance */}
        <Swiper modules={[Thumbs]} thumbs={{ swiper: thumbsSwiper }} ...>
          {/* ... */}
        </Swiper>

        {/* Thumbs Swiper -> store swiper instance */}
        {/* It is also required to set watchSlidesProgress prop */ }
        <Swiper
          modules={[Thumbs]}
          watchSlidesProgress
          onSwiper={setThumbsSwiper}
          ...
        >
          {/* ... */}
        </Swiper>
      </main>
    )
  }

Effects

The following effects are available:

Fade
Cube
Coverflow
Flip
Cards
Creative

To use effects you have to import and install them first (as all other modules).

You can find running effect demos here.

Full Fade Effect Example

import React from 'react';
import { Swiper, SwiperSlide } from 'swiper/react';
import { EffectFade } from 'swiper/modules';

import 'swiper/css';
import 'swiper/css/effect-fade';

export default () => {
  return (
    <Swiper modules={[EffectFade]} effect="fade">
      {[1, 2, 3].map((i, el) => {
        return <SwiperSlide>Slide {el}</SwiperSlide>;
      })}
    </Swiper>
  );
};

What next?

As you see it is really easy to integrate Swiper into your website or app. So here are your next steps:

Go to API Documentation to learn more about all Swiper API and how to control it.
Look at available Demos.
If you have questions about Swiper ask them in StackOverflow or Swiper Discussions.
Create issue on GitHub if you found a bug.

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