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Abiola Esther
Abiola Esther

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Creating awesome carousels with SWIPER JS

#webdev #javascript

Creating carousels for a website can be a complicated and stressful process. Well, this problem can be solved using SWIPER JS
Swiper is a cool and easy to use JavaScript Library.
It is a modern touch slider which is focused only on modern apps and web platforms to bring the best experience and simplicity. The documentation is very easy to understand.

Steps in creating a carousel with Swiper JS

  • Getting Started

Using CDN

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/swiper/swiper-bundle.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/swiper/swiper-bundle.min.css">
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<script src="https://unpkg.com/swiper/swiper-bundle.js"></script> <script src="https://unpkg.com/swiper/swiper-bundle.min.js"></script>
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Using NPM

from the terminal $ npm install swiper
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  • HTML Layout 
<!-- Slider main container --> <div class="swiper-container"> <!-- Additional required wrapper --> <div class="swiper-wrapper"> <!-- Slides --> <div class="swiper-slide">Slide 1</div> <div class="swiper-slide">Slide 2</div> <div class="swiper-slide">Slide 3</div> ... </div> <!-- If we need pagination --> <div class="swiper-pagination"></div> <!-- If we need navigation buttons --> <div class="swiper-button-prev"></div> <div class="swiper-button-next"></div> <!-- If we need scrollbar --> <div class="swiper-scrollbar"></div> </div>
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  • Intialize Swiper Js

new Swiper(swiperContainer, parameters)

var mySwiper = new Swiper('.swiper-container', { speed: 400, spaceBetween: 100 });
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Here are some demos of carousel

  • Simple

  • Pagination

  • Scrollbar

  • Vertical Slider

  • Fade Effect

  • 3D Cube Effect

  • 3D Coverflow Effect

  • 3D Flip Effect

  • Thumbs Gallery

  • Lazy Loading

For more Demos, check HERE

Credits

If you have any other questions you can send me a message on Twitter

Thanks 😊

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Karen Efereyan •

Nice article Abiola

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