What is react-slick?

akiran/react-slick — explained in plain English

Analysis updated 2026-06-24

★ 11,924JavaScriptAudience · developerComplexity · 2/5Setup · easy

Mindmap

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  root((react-slick))
    What it does
      Horizontal carousel
      Image galleries
      Content sliders
    Configuration
      Slide count
      Loop and autoplay
      Navigation dots
      Transition speed
    Setup
      npm install
      CSS from slick-carousel
    Audience
      React developers
      Frontend builders

mindmap root((react-slick)) What it does Horizontal carousel Image galleries Content sliders Configuration Slide count Loop and autoplay Navigation dots Transition speed Setup npm install CSS from slick-carousel Audience React developers Frontend builders

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Add a horizontal image gallery to a React website where users can swipe or click arrows to browse photos.

USE CASE 2

Build a product carousel for an e-commerce storefront showing multiple product cards that scroll horizontally.

USE CASE 3

Display a testimonials or logo strip that auto-advances and loops infinitely on a landing page.

What is it built with?

JavaScriptReactCSS

How does it compare?

	akiran/react-slick	wix/detox	nightwatchjs/nightwatch
Stars	11,924	11,908	11,946
Language	JavaScript	JavaScript	JavaScript
Setup difficulty	easy	moderate	easy
Complexity	2/5	3/5	2/5
Audience	developer	developer	developer

Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.

How do you get it running?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

Requires installing slick-carousel separately and importing its CSS files to get default styles.

So what is it?

react-slick is a carousel component for React applications. A carousel is the sliding image or content gallery you see on many websites, where items scroll horizontally one at a time or in groups. This library is a React adaptation of a popular jQuery-based carousel called slick carousel. You add it to a React project via npm or Yarn, then wrap whatever content you want to display (images, cards, text blocks, anything) inside its Slider component. Options like the number of slides to show at once, whether slides loop back to the start, how fast transitions happen, and whether to show navigation dots are all set through props passed to the component. The full list of configuration options and available methods is documented on the project's website. The library handles the visual presentation through CSS files from the original slick-carousel package, which you install separately and import into your project. Without those stylesheets, the carousel will work but look unstyled. The README is short and focused on installation and a minimal code example. It points to external documentation for the full API. There is a Discord channel for support and bug discussion.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1

Using react-slick, write me a React component that shows 3 product cards at a time with auto-play every 3 seconds, navigation arrows, and dots, and loops back to the start.

Prompt 2

I installed react-slick but my carousel has no styling. Walk me through which CSS files from slick-carousel I need to import and where to put those import statements in a Create React App project.

Prompt 3

Show me how to use react-slick's Slider ref methods to programmatically advance to the next slide when a button outside the carousel is clicked.

Prompt 4

How do I make a react-slick carousel responsive, showing 1 slide on mobile, 2 on tablet, and 3 on desktop, using the responsive prop?

Frequently asked questions