Guide To Creating A YouTube/Instagram Slider Or A Video Carousel In React Using Videojs And React-Slick
Path for creating a cool video carousel similar to YouTube shorts/ Instagram Reels with React-slick and Videojs. It will be just an introduction and guide about how you can create so that you follow and create of your own carousal.First, let’s get to know a little about the libraries that we will be using:
Video.js:
Video.js is a popular open-source library for rendering videos in React applications. Video.js provides a consistent, easy-to-use API for working with HTML5 video and offers several useful features, such as support for multiple video formats, customizable controls, and the ability to add captions and subtitles.
React Slick:
React slick is a great library for creating carousels. It offers accessibility and responsiveness — amongst other features — to help you create performant carousels. In this article, you will learn how to create a simple carousel component with React Slick and explore some of its main features.
There are some settings that come by default in react-slick. They can however be customized to suit your needs. Some of these settings are:
dots: can be set to true or false to display dots underneath the contents. These dots can also be used to select a slide to show.
arrow: boolean to set if the default arrow should be displayed.
infinite: Boolean to determine if the carousel continues to slide/loop even when it has gotten to the last item.
slidesToShow: number of slides to display in view on the screen at a time.
slidesToScroll: number of slides to move when sliding the carousel.
speed: sets the animation scrolling speed in milliseconds.
autoPlay: boolean to enable or disable automatic sliding of the carousel.
autoPlaySpeed: sets the speed of the autoplay in milliseconds.
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