Flickity Responsive

A vanilla JS plugin that adds responsive option for Flickity. And more extendable settings, see #docs

Introduction

At the time of this plugin was made, Flickity does not officially offer any way to update the options on various screen-sizes.

Read more about the issue here 👉 metafizzy/flickity#233

So, I create a plugin that brings responsive to Flickity, just like the way Slick works.

Getting started

Add the script to your project in this order 👇

• jQuery (optional)
• Flickity
• flickity-responsive

NPM Package

Install NPM package

npm i flickity-responsive

Import

import {FlickityResponsive} from "flickity-responsive";

Download

👉 Self hosted - Download the latest release

<script src="./flickity-responsive.min.js"></script>

👉 CDN Hosted - jsDelivr

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/phucbm/[email protected]/flickity-responsive.min.js"></script>

Usage

Just change the name, all other options stay the same.

// init with vanilla JS
const carousel = new FlickityResponsive('.carousel', {
    pageDots: false,
    responsive: [
        {
            breakpoint: 768,
            settings: {
                prevNextButtons: false,
                pageDots: true,
            }
        }
    ]
});

Init with HTML

Use data attribute to init Flickity Responsive, just exactly like Flickity.

<div data-flickity-responsive='{ "cellAlign": "left", "contain": true }'>
    <div class="carousel-cell"></div>
    <div class="carousel-cell"></div>
    <div class="carousel-cell"></div>
</div>

⚠️ Options set in HTML must be valid JSON.

Docs

Visit https://flickity.netlify.app for examples.

const carousel = new FlickityResponsive('.carousel', {
    contain: true, // default in Flickity Responsive

    // Extra features 👇

    // destroy
    destroy: false,

    // custom arrows
    prevArrow: undefined, // DOM element, jQuery element
    nextArrow: undefined, // DOM element, jQuery element

    // indicator numbers
    indicatorCurrent: undefined, // current slides, DOM element, jQuery element
    indicatorTotal: undefined, // total slides, DOM element, jQuery element

    // hide navigation elements if the slider is not slide-able
    responsiveNavigation: true,

    // indicator
    indicatorZeroPad: false,
    indicatorCurrent: undefined,
    indicatorTotal: undefined,

    // force move
    forceMove: true, // make sure that every time an arrows clicked, the carousel will move

    // aria hidden focus
    ariaHiddenFocus: true, // Add tabindex="-1" to all elements with or inside aria-hidden="true"
    ariaHiddenFocusSelector: `[aria-hidden="true"] a, [aria-hidden="true"] button`,
});

FYI

This plugin respects Flickity's API and use matchMedia() to know when to destroy and re-initialize the carousel.

⚠️ Important note: the breakpoint property is using CSS max-width logic. For instance, when you set breakpoint:480, that means responsive settings will be applied when the viewport is <=480px (while Slick is <480px). Let's be cleared 💎

Deployment

Before release, update version in package.json and README.md.

# Run dev server
npm run dev

# Generate prod files
npm run prod

# Publish package
npm publish

# build
npm run build

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2021-2025 Phuc Bui

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