# rcbyr/keen-slider

The HTML touch slider carousel with the most native feeling you will get.

Repository: https://github.com/rcbyr/keen-slider
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/keen-slider
Homepage: https://keen-slider.io/
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: slider, carousel, touch, mobile, react, vue, angular, native, vanilla, touch-events, slideshow, vuejs, agnostic, mobile-web, react-native, vue3
Last push: 2026-01-22T00:15:07+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 51/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 63, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2337, "days_push": 224, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5025, forks 217 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:04.916943+00:00)

## What it is
Keen-Slider is a lightweight (~5.5KB gzipped), dependency-free TypeScript library for building touch-friendly sliders, carousels, and slideshows with native-feeling swipe behavior. It is framework-agnostic, with official hooks/wrappers for React, Vue, Angular, and React Native.

## Use cases
- build a touch swipeable image carousel for a mobile website
- add a slideshow gallery to a React app
- create a draggable card deck like Tinder
- implement a responsive product carousel in Vue 3
- build a date picker or other custom swipeable UI
- add a slider to an Angular project without heavy dependencies

## When to choose
- you need native-feeling touch/swipe behavior on mobile
- you want a tiny, dependency-free slider that works with any framework or vanilla JS
- you need React Native support
- you want a headless, extensible slider with a plugin API

## When to avoid
- you need a full-featured UI component suite rather than just a slider
- you require built-in accessibility features out of the box without extra work
- you need server-side rendering support with no client-side JavaScript

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: ui-components, animation, frontend-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend, mobile-development
- platform: browser, cross-platform
- tags: slider, carousel, touch-events, framework-agnostic, lightweight, react-hook, vue, angular, react-native, headless, web-server

## Member repositories
- rcbyr/keen-slider (main) score 51

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:04.916943+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:17:28.727589+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/rcbyr/keen-slider (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:04.916943+00:00, sha 0eb2a22bce5b)
  - homepage: https://keen-slider.io/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:58:24.555814+00:00, sha eb32a77c99a4)
  - site_page: https://keen-slider.io/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T08:58:24.558292+00:00, sha 70faf8f70d9c)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/keen-slider (fetched 2026-08-29T08:58:24.560641+00:00, sha 4745b4004ca4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.