React Flickity Component

Introduction:

A React.js Flickity component.

Install:

npm install react-flickity-component --save
// Or
yarn add react-flickity-component

Usage:

// Commonjs
const Flickity = require('flickity');
// Or for ES2015 module
import Flickity from 'react-flickity-component'

const flickityOptions = {
    initialIndex: 2
}

function Carousel() {
  return (
    <Flickity
      className={'carousel'} // default ''
      elementType={'div'} // default 'div'
      options={flickityOptions} // takes flickity options {}
      disableImagesLoaded={false} // default false
      reloadOnUpdate // default false
    >
      <img src="/images/placeholder.png"/>
      <img src="/images/placeholder.png"/>
      <img src="/images/placeholder.png"/>
    </Flickity>
  )
}

Example usage:

The examples folder contains an example use with create-react-app.

cd examples/react-flickity
yarn
yarn start

Props:

Property	Type	Default	Description
className	String	''	Applied to top level wrapper
elementType	String	'div'	Wrapper's element type
options	Object	{}	Flickity initialization opions
disableImagesLoaded	Boolean	false	Disable call reloadCells images are loaded
reloadOnUpdate	Boolean	false	Run reloadCells and resize on componentDidUpdate
flickityRef	Function		like ref function, get Flickity instance in parent component

Use Flickity's API and events

You can access Flickity instance with flickityRef prop just like ref, and use this instance to register events and use API.

class Carousel extends React.Component {

  componentDidMount = () => {
    // You can register events in componentDidMount hook
    this.flkty.on('settle', () => {
      console.log(`current index is ${this.flkty.selectedIndex}`)
    })
  }

  myCustomNext = () => {
    // You can use Flickity API
    this.flkty.next()
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <Flickity flickityRef={c => this.flkty = c}>
        <img src="/images/placeholder.png"/>
        <img src="/images/placeholder.png"/>
        <img src="/images/placeholder.png"/>
      </Flickity>
      <Button onClick={myCustomNext}>My custom next button</Button>
    )
  }
}

License Information:

GPLv3

Flickity may be used in commercial projects and applications with the one-time purchase of a commercial license. http://flickity.metafizzy.co/license.html