Steps to Create Image Slider in ReactJS

Follow these easy and simple steps to build your first image slider in ReactJS. The steps are explained with ReactJS code and examples for better understanding.

Step 1: Create a data set for Image Collection

Store the image paths and labels in a JavaScript array for the image collection as given below.

const MyCollection = [
    {
        label: "First Picture",
        imgPath:
            "https://media.w3wiki.org/wp-content/uploads/20210208000010/1.png",
    },
    {
        label: "Second Picture",
        imgPath:
            "https://media.w3wiki.org/wp-content/uploads/20210208000009/2.png",
    },
    {
        label: "Third Picture",
        imgPath:
            "https://media.w3wiki.org/wp-content/uploads/20210208000008/3.png",
    },
];

Step 2: Display the Images with img Tag

Simply use the img tag to display the image collection and use an alt attribute for alt text.

<img
     src={MyCollection[index].imgPath}
     alt={MyCollection[index].label}
/>

Step 3: Create the Image Slider

Use MUI Paper, Typography, and MobileStepper components and icons to design and create the slider structure. Import and use them from the Material UI library.

Step 4: Define the slider functions

Define a function to change the image index when the next button is clicked.

const goToNextPicture = () => {
        setActiveStep((prevActiveStep) => prevActiveStep + 1);
    };

Image Slider is a dynamic web element that displays a collection of images and has a slider to switch between the Images. It is the most common feature to show image collection in web applications or mobile apps.

Websites like Amazon.com, Flipkart.com, and many e-commerce sites use image sliders to show multiple images of products.

We can create an image slider in ReactJS using Material UI. It has this component available for us and it is very easy to integrate. In this tutorial, we will learn how to create image sliders from scratch using ReactJS.

Before learning how to build an image slider for a web application in ReactJS, you should know the prerequisites so that you can build an image slider without any doubts or issues.