smSlider

smSlider is a library for creating responsive and slick sliders that serve whatever content you want them to. The general philosophy is to provide a flexible library in which the user can handle the styling mostly by itself. This makes it easy, to customize the slider without having to override a lot of library styles. Basically the only styling provided is done for the sake of animation and responsiveness.

Table of Contents

• Installation
  • UMD
  • AMD
  • CommonJS
  • ESM
• Usage
  • Markup
  • Global initialization
  • Single initilization
  • Options
  • Responsiveness
  • Vertical slides
  • Events
    • Attaching a listener
    • Dispatching an event
• Todo
• Contributing
• License

Installation

Run npm install -S sm-slider to install the package from npm. Alternatively, you can download the latest release from this repository.

To include the library, refer to the module definition you are using.

UMD

Include the sm-slider.js and sm-slider.css from the lib directory in your project. This makes smSlider available in the global scope.

AMD

Adjust your require.config.js to include the following code:

packages: [{
    name: 'smSlider',
    location: 'node_modules/sm-slider/lib',
    main: 'sm-slider'
}]

Now you can use the slider in your project like this:

define('myModule', ['smSlider'], function(smSlider) {
    // Access smSlider object here
});

CommonJS

Require the slider via const smSlider = require('sm-slider'); and use the smSlider variable to access its methods.

ESM

Import the slider via import smSlider from 'sm-slider'; and access it via the smSlider variable.

Usage

To use the slider, you first want to create some basic HTML markup and then initialize the slider via the JavaScript API.

Markup

<div class="sm-slider" data-sm-slider="{}">
    <div class="slides-wrapper">
        <div class="slides">
            <div class="slide">
                Slide 1
            </div>
            <div class="slide">
                Slide 2
            </div>
            <div class="slide">
                Slide 3
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

In this example, you can pass options via the data-sm-slider attribute. For a list of possible options, refer to Options.

Slider arrows

As you might want to add arrows to the slider for the user to navigate, you can include them by altering the above markup as follows:

<div class="sm-slider" data-sm-slider="{}">
    <div class="arrow-left"></div>
    <div class="slides-wrapper">
        <div class="slides">
            <div class="slide">
                Slide 1
            </div>
            <div class="slide">
                Slide 2
            </div>
            <div class="slide">
                Slide 3
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="arrow-right"></div>
</div>

The arrow-elements will provide a clickable container that can be used to move to the next/previous slides. By default, the arrows are next to the slides. If you want the arrows to be on the actual slide, you can add the inset class to the arrow.

<div class="arrow-left inset"></div>

Navigation dots

The slider supports a navigation that displays which slide you are currently on. To enable it, simply insert an element with the dot-nav class into your DOM.

<div class="sm-slider" data-sm-slider="{}">
    <div class="arrow-left"></div>
    <div class="slides-wrapper">
        <div class="slides">
            <div class="slide">
                Slide 1
            </div>
            <div class="slide">
                Slide 2
            </div>
            <div class="slide">
                Slide 3
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="arrow-right"></div>
    <div class="dot-nav"></div>
</div>

Text Navigation

The slider supports a text navigation that displays which slide you are currently on with a custom text. To enable it, simply insert an element with the text-nav-wrapper class into your DOM. As children of this element you should insert elements with the text-nav class and a data-sm-slider-ref Attribute. To create a reference to the slide you should insert a data-sm-slider-hash Attribute with the same value as the data-sm-slider-ref Attribute to the slides you want to reference on.

<div class="sm-slider" data-sm-slider='{}'>
    <div class="arrow-left"><</div>
    <div class="slides-wrapper">
        <div class="slides">
            <div class="slide" data-sm-slider-hash="zero"></div>
            <div class="slide" data-sm-slider-hash="one">
                <div>
                    <img src="//placehold.it/1180x500">
                </div>
            </div>
            <div class="slide" data-sm-slider-hash="two">
                <img src="//placehold.it/1180x400">
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="arrow-right"><</div>
    <!--<div class="dot-nav"></div>-->
    <div class="text-nav-wrapper">
        <a class="text-nav" data-sm-slider-ref="zero">Slide 0</a>
        <a class="text-nav" data-sm-slider-ref="one">Slide 1</a>
        <a class="text-nav" data-sm-slider-ref="two">Slide 2</a>
    </div>
</div>

Global initialization

You can initialize all sliders on a page, by using

smSlider.init();

This method will initialize all target all element that have a the data-sm-slider attribute and try to initialize them as a slider.

Single initialization

If you want to target a specific slider, you can use the class constructor to initialize it. This is the preferred approach if you want more control over the slider and call functions on it (e.g. to switch slides from your script).

var $sliderRef = document.querySelector('.sm-slider');
var slider = new smSlider($sliderRef, options);

Note: the DOM element you target is not required to have the data-sm-slider attribute, since options are passed in via the constructor.

Options

The options object that you either pass in via the data-sm-slider attribute or the contructor can consist of the following options:

Option	Description	Type	Default Value	Responsive
visibleSlides	Number of simultaneosly visible slides	number	1	yes
step	Number of slides, the slider progresses with one slide action	number	1	yes
infinite	True, if the slides should repeat upon reaching the end	boolean	false
autoplay	Time in milliseconds for the slides to switch automatically	number	0
breakpoints	See Responsiveness	Object	undefined
offsetLet	Value between 0 and 1 that controls, how much of the last slide is visible on the left.	number	0	yes
showEmptySlides	False, if empty slides should be hidden	boolean	true
disabledSwipe	True, if touch swiping should be disabled	boolean	false
activeClass	Adds an active class to the first displayed element in the viewport	boolean	false

Responsiveness

smSlilder is built to fit different device sizes using the breakpoints option. The breakspoints option consists of a key/value pair that can override all default options that have a yes in the field for responsiveness in the options table above.

Example

var options = {
    "visibleSlides": 1,
    "breakpoints": {
        "768": {
            "visibleSlides": 2
        }
    }
};

The above configuration will make the slider display 1 slide by default and 2 slides when exceeding the 768px device-width breakpoint (i.e. tablet devices).

Vertical slides

smSlilder also supports vertical alignment of slides, instead of the usual horizonal one. In order to transform the slider into a vertical one, the element with the sm-slider class needs to be assigned the sm-slider--vertical class as well.

Please note that for best results, the following cases should apply:

• The parent of sm-slider has either display flex, inline or inline-block
• The content of the slide class has a fixed height
  • The dynamic height calculation is going to be addressed in the upcoming releases!

Events

smSlilder uses custom events to both notify the listener of specific actions, as well as listening to specific events itself. The following list shows the events that are implemented at the moment.

Attachable means, that a listener can be attached to handle the event, whereas Dispatchable means that the event can be triggered on the slider. Value describes the contents of event.detail either to process in the handler or when the event is dispatched.

Event	Description	Attachable	Dispatchable	Value
next	Switches to the next slide	no	yes	undefined
previous	Switches to the previous slide	no	yes	undefined
slide	Switches to a specific slide	yes	yes	to: number (index of slide that is switched to)

Attaching a listener

Eventlisteners can be attached in two ways: either using the reference to the class instance of the slider or attaching it to the root DOM element that contains the data-sm-slider.

Class instance reference

var slider = new smSlider($element, options);
slider.addEventListener(event, handler, options);

DOM element reference

var $sliderElement = document.querySelector('.sm-slider');
$sliderElement.addEventListener(event, handler, options);

Dispatching an event

Using the same references as described above, it is possible to dispatch events that the slider listens to.

var slider = new smSlider($element, options);
slider.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent('slide', {
    detail: {
        to: 2 // index to slide to
    }
}));

Todo

• Configure number of visible slides
• Configure step size when sliding
• Configure infinite sliding
• Configure responsive breakpoints
• Handle resizes and orientation changes
• Touch support
• Custom events
• Autoplay
• Implement vertical slides support
• Fix automatic height calculation on vertical slides
• Lazy loading of images
• Configure animation speed
• Provide different timing functions

Contributing

To contribute to this project, fork the repository and create your feature/hotfix branch with whatever you want to add.

Install the project dependencies using npm i and start the development server via npm start. A webpack-dev-server will now listen on port 8080.

When you are finished developing, make sure to add a documented pull request.

Please note: Pull requests for new features that are not typed via flowtype as well as not following the general code style used in this project will be rejected.

License

MIT