[RFC] New dependency: react-native-swiper

Status

Adopted

New Dependency

Name: react-native-swiper URL: https://github.com/leecade/react-native-swiper

Focus

A React Native module that allows you to quickly build customisable Swiper components.

Check out the implementation and test out PR here.

Check List

• Have read over the source code, and we can maintain it
• Has had a release in the last year or looks done and stable

Alternatives

react-native-swiper seems to be the easiest solution for the purpose of the task (swipe between slides that display data and, based on the index of the card, update the slide-specific data). The Swiper component makes it easier to operate with indexes of the slides and child components. Before testing react-native-swiper, I’ve tried out using SrollView. The implementation seemed to be not as transparent and robust as react-native-swiper, plus the ScrollView renders all child components at once, which adds more complexity to future tasks. With react-native-swiper we can render only the current slide.

[MounirDhahri]

Actually react-native-swiper is more like stable than unmaintained, it’s become kind of the defacto go-to solution for swipers in react-native. The Flatlist/Scrollview API hasn’t changed much over the past few years and that explains why not much has been added to react native swiper.

[araujobarret]

My only concern regarding this lib is it had no maintenance over the past 2 years 😢