"refresh" method deletes the slides when reinitialising the slider.

I’m responsively unslicking my slider and with Slick v1.8.1 I was able to $('.my-slider').slick('refresh'); to reinitialise the slider, however with this fork, it does attempt to reinitialise the slider but all the slides are removed and the .slick-track is completely empty.

[jasonwebb]

Thanks for putting that together! I can confirm that this is an issue that seems to be present in accessible-slick, but not the original Slick library. But I haven’t been able to figure out the cause of it yet.

There haven’t been any changes made to either the unslick or refresh functionality directly, so whatever is going on seems like it must be a side effect to some unrelated changes.

So far I’ve found that the unslick option is really just an alias for the destroy() method, and the destroy() method is already called by the refresh() method. So in your example, when you “unslick” the carousel and try to do a refresh, the carousel gets destroyed twice. When the second destroy() call is made inside the refresh method, the slides get removed from the DOM entirely. I think I’ve narrowed down the problem down to this line of code in the cleanUpRows() method, but I understand yet what is going on. Seems like there is some hand-wavy jQuery magic going on that is making the issue really tricky to trace.

I’m also seeing that the refresh() method is not officially documented or demonstrated in the original library’s README or docpage, so the intended purpose and proper usage is a bit unclear to me. As a short term solution, I wonder if you can get the results you want by re-initializing Slick entirely instead of trying to use the refresh option, like the snippet below. But since I do really want this package to be a true drop-in replacement for Slick Slider, I want to resolve this issue regardless - I’m just not sure how long that’ll take.

$(".reslick").on("click", function() {
  $(".my-slider").slick({
    infinite: true,
    slidesToShow: 3,
    slidesToScroll: 1,
    arrows: true,
    dots: false,
    centerMode: true,
  });
});

If you, or anyone else, has any ideas for what could be going on here, please let me know!

[mitchell-ionata]

Thanks for looking into it! Yeah I just happened to stumble upon the refresh method when looking into how to easily reinitialise my slider after it has been unslicked so it’s definitely possible how I’m using it is not intended.

I’ll have a poke around myself if I find the time, cheers!