Swiper Vue.js Components

If you are upgrading from Swiper 6 to Swiper 7, check out Migration Guide to Swiper 7

Installation

Swiper Vue.js plugin is available only via NPM as a part of the main Swiper library:

  npm i swiper

Usage

swiper/vue exports 2 components: Swiper and SwiperSlide:

<template>
  <swiper
    :slides-per-view="3"
    :space-between="50"
    @swiper="onSwiper"
    @slideChange="onSlideChange"
  >
    <swiper-slide>Slide 1</swiper-slide>
    <swiper-slide>Slide 2</swiper-slide>
    <swiper-slide>Slide 3</swiper-slide>
    ...
  </swiper>
</template>
<script>
  // Import Swiper Vue.js components
  import { Swiper, SwiperSlide } from 'swiper/vue';

  // Import Swiper styles
  import 'swiper/css';

  export default {
    components: {
      Swiper,
      SwiperSlide,
    },
    setup() {
      const onSwiper = (swiper) => {
        console.log(swiper);
      };
      const onSlideChange = () => {
        console.log('slide change');
      };
      return {
        onSwiper,
        onSlideChange,
      };
    },
  };
</script>
By default Swiper Vue.js uses core version of Swiper (without any additional modules). If you want to use Navigation, Pagination and other modules, you have to install them first.

Here is the list of additional modules imports:

  • Virtual - Virtual Slides module
  • Keyboard - Keyboard Control module
  • Mousewheel - Mousewheel Control module
  • Navigation - Navigation module
  • Pagination - Pagination module
  • Scrollbar - Scrollbar module
  • Parallax - Parallax module
  • FreeMode - Free Mode module
  • Grid - Grid module
  • Manipulation - Slides manipulation module (only for Core version)
  • Zoom - Zoom module
  • Lazy - Lazy module
  • Controller - Controller module
  • A11y - Accessibility module
  • History - History Navigation module
  • HashNavigation - Hash Navigation module
  • Autoplay - Autoplay module
  • EffectFade - Fade Effect module
  • EffectCube - Cube Effect module
  • EffectFlip - Flip Effect module
  • EffectCoverflow - Coverflow Effect module
  • EffectCards - Cards Effect module
  • EffectCreative - Creative Effect module
  • Thumbs - Thumbs module
<template>
  <swiper
    :modules="modules"
    :slides-per-view="3"
    :space-between="50"
    navigation
    :pagination="{ clickable: true }"
    :scrollbar="{ draggable: true }"
    @swiper="onSwiper"
    @slideChange="onSlideChange"
  >
    <swiper-slide>Slide 1</swiper-slide>
    <swiper-slide>Slide 2</swiper-slide>
    <swiper-slide>Slide 3</swiper-slide>
    ...
  </swiper>
</template>
<script>
  // import Swiper core and required modules
  import { Navigation, Pagination, Scrollbar, A11y } from 'swiper';

  // Import Swiper Vue.js components
  import { Swiper, SwiperSlide } from 'swiper/vue';

  // Import Swiper styles
  import 'swiper/css';
  import 'swiper/css/navigation';
  import 'swiper/css/pagination';
  import 'swiper/css/scrollbar';

  // Import Swiper styles
  export default {
    components: {
      Swiper,
      SwiperSlide,
    },
    setup() {
      const onSwiper = (swiper) => {
        console.log(swiper);
      };
      const onSlideChange = () => {
        console.log('slide change');
      };
      return {
        onSwiper,
        onSlideChange,
        modules: [Navigation, Pagination, Scrollbar, A11y],
      };
    },
  };
</script>
Note, Swiper Vue.js component will create required elements for Navigation, Pagination and Scrollbar if you pass these params without specifying its elements (e.g. without navigation.nextEl, pagination.el, etc.)

Styles

Swiper package contains different sets of CSS, Less and SCSS styles:

  • swiper/css - only core Swiper styles
  • swiper/css/bundle - all Swiper styles including all modules styles (like Navigation, Pagination, etc.)

Modules styles (not required if you already imported bundle styles):

  • swiper/css/a11y - styles required for A11y module
  • swiper/css/autoplay - styles required for Autoplay module
  • swiper/css/controller - styles required for Controller module
  • swiper/css/effect-cards - styles required for Cards Effect module
  • swiper/css/effect-coverflow - styles required for Coverflow Effect module
  • swiper/css/effect-creative - styles required for Creative Effect module
  • swiper/css/effect-cube - styles required for Cube Effect module
  • swiper/css/effect-fade - styles required for Fade Effect module
  • swiper/css/effect-flip - styles required for Flip Effect module
  • swiper/css/free-mode - styles required for Free Mode module
  • swiper/css/grid - styles required for Grid module
  • swiper/css/hash-navigation - styles required for Hash Navigation module
  • swiper/css/history - styles required for History module
  • swiper/css/keyboard - styles required for Keyboard module
  • swiper/css/lazy - styles required for Lazy module
  • swiper/css/manipulation - styles required for Manipulation module
  • swiper/css/mousewheel - styles required for Mousewheel module
  • swiper/css/navigation - styles required for Navigation module
  • swiper/css/pagination - styles required for Pagination module
  • swiper/css/parallax - styles required for Parallax module
  • swiper/css/scrollbar - styles required for Scrollbar module
  • swiper/css/thumbs - styles required for Thumbs module
  • swiper/css/virtual - styles required for Virtual module
  • swiper/css/zoom - styles required for Zoom module

For Less styles replace css with less in imports paths, e.g.:

import 'swiper/less';
import 'swiper/less/navigation';
import 'swiper/less/pagination';

For SCSS styles replace css with scss in imports paths, e.g.:

import 'swiper/scss';
import 'swiper/scss/navigation';
import 'swiper/scss/pagination';

Swiper props

Swiper Vue.js component receive all Swiper parameters as component props, plus some extra props:

PropTypeDefaultDescription
tagstring'div'Main Swiper container HTML element tag
wrapperTagstring'div'Swiper wrapper HTML element tag

Swiper events

Swiper component supports all Swiper events, including additional swiper event that returns swiper instance as soon as posible. For example:

<swiper @swiper="..." @slideChange="..." @reachEnd="..." ...></swiper>

SwiperSlide props

PropTypeDefaultDescription
tagstring'div'Swiper Slide HTML element tag
zoombooleanfalseEnables additional wrapper required for zoom mode
virtualIndexnumberActual swiper slide index. Required to be set for virtual slides

SwiperSlide slot props

SwiperSlide component has the following slot props:

  • isActive - true when current slide is active
  • isPrev - true when current slide is the previous from active
  • isNext - true when current slide is the next from active
  • isVisible - true when current slide is visible (watchSlidesProgress Swiper parameter must be enabled)
  • isDuplicate - true when current slide is a duplicate slide (when loop mode enabled) For example:
<swiper>
  <swiper-slide v-slot="{ isActive }">
    <div>Current slide is {{ isActive ? 'active' : 'not active' }}</div>
  </swiper-slide>
</swiper>

Slots

Swiper Vue.js component uses "slots" for content distribution. There are 4 slots available

  • container-start - element will be added to the beginning of swiper-container
  • container-end (default) - element will be added to the end of swiper-container
  • wrapper-start - element will be added to the beginning of swiper-wrapper
  • wrapper-end - element will be added to the end of swiper-wrapper

For example:

<swiper>
  <swiper-slide>Slide 1</swiper-slide>
  <swiper-slide>Slide 2</swiper-slide>
  <template v-slot:container-start> <span>Container start<span></template>
  <template v-slot:container-end> <span>Container end><span></template>
  <template v-slot:wrapper-start><span>Wrapper start<span></template>
  <template v-slot:wrapper-end> <span>Wrapper end<span></template>
</swiper>

Will be rendered as:

<div class="swiper">
  <span>Container start</span>
  <div class="swiper-wrapper">
    <span>Wrapper start</span>
    <div class="swiper-slide">Slide 1</div>
    <div class="swiper-slide">Slide 2</div>
    <span>Wrapper wnd</span>
  </div>
  <span>Container end</span>
</div>

Virtual Slides

Virtual Slides rendering here is fully handled by Vue.js and not required anything except setting :virtual="true" property and setting virtualIndex on slides:

<template>
  <swiper :modules="[Virtual]" :slides-per-view="3" :space-between="50" virtual>
    <swiper-slide
      v-for="(slideContent, index) in slides"
      :key="index"
      :virtualIndex="index"
      >{{slideContent}}</swiper-slide
    >
  </swiper>
</template>
<script>
  import { Virtual } from 'swiper';
  import { Swiper, SwiperSlide } from 'swiper/vue';

  export default {
    components: {
      Swiper,
      SwiperSlide,
    },

    setup() {
      // Create array with 1000 slides
      const slides = Array.from({ length: 1000 }).map(
        (el, index) => `Slide ${index + 1}`
      );
      return {
        slides,
        Virtual,
      };
    },
  };
</script>

Controller

Controller requires to pass one Swiper instance to another:

<template>
  <!-- Main Swiper -> pass controlled swiper instance -->
  <swiper
    :modules="[Controller]"
    :controller="{ control: controlledSwiper }"
    ...
  >
    ...
  </swiper>

  <!-- Controlled Swiper -> store swiper instance -->
  <swiper :modules="[Controller]" @swiper="setControlledSwiper" ...>
    ...
  </swiper>
</template>
<script>
  import { ref } from 'vue';
  import { Controller } from 'swiper';
  import { Swiper, SwiperSlide } from 'swiper/vue';

  export default {
    components: {
      Swiper,
      SwiperSlide,
    },
    setup() {
      const controlledSwiper = ref(null);
      const setControlledSwiper = (swiper) => {
        controlledSwiper.value = swiper;
      }
      return {
        Controller,
        controlledSwiper,
        setControlledSwiper,
      };
    },
  };
</script>

For two-way control (when both Swipers control each other) it should be like this:

<template>
  <swiper
    :modules="[Controller]"
    @swiper="setFirstSwiper"
    :controller="{ control: secondSwiper }"
    ...
  >
    ...
  </swiper>
  <swiper
    :modules="[Controller]"
    @swiper="setSecondSwiper"
    :controller="{ control: firstSwiper }"
    ...
  >
    ...
  </swiper>
</template>
<script>
  import { ref } from 'vue';
  import { Controller } from 'swiper';
  import { Swiper, SwiperSlide } from 'swiper/vue';

  export default {
    components: {
      Swiper,
      SwiperSlide,
    },
    setup() {
      const firstSwiper = ref(null);
      const secondSwiper = ref(null);
      const setFirstSwiper = (swiper) => {
        firstSwiper.value = swiper;
      };
      const setSecondSwiper = (swiper) => {
        secondSwiper.value = swiper;
      };

      return {
        Controller,
        firstSwiper,
        secondSwiper,
        setFirstSwiper,
        setSecondSwiper,
      };
    },
  };
</script>

Thumbs

Same as with controller we need to store thumbs instance and pass it to main gallery:

<template>
  <!-- Main Swiper -> pass thumbs swiper instance -->
  <swiper :modules="[Thumbs]" :thumbs="{ swiper: thumbsSwiper }" ...>
    ...
  </swiper>

  <!-- Thumbs Swiper -> store swiper instance -->
  <!-- It is also required to set watchSlidesProgress prop -->
  <swiper
    :modules="[Thumbs]"
    watch-slides-progress
    @swiper="setThumbsSwiper"
    ...
  >
    ...
  </swiper>
</template>
<script>
  import { ref } from 'vue';
  import { Thumbs } from 'swiper';
  import { Swiper, SwiperSlide } from 'swiper/vue';

  export default {
    components: {
      Swiper,
      SwiperSlide,
    },
    setup() {
      const thumbsSwiper = ref(null);
      const setThumbsSwiper = (swiper) => {
        thumbsSwiper.value = swiper;
      };
      return {
        Thumbs,
        thumbsSwiper,
        setThumbsSwiper,
      };
    },
  };
</script>

Effects

The following effects are available:

- Fade
- Cube
- Coverflow
- Flip
- Cards
- Creative

To use effects you have to import and install them first (as all other modules).

You can find running effect demos here.

Full Fade Effect Example

<template>
  <swiper :modules="[EffectFade]" effect="fade">
    <swiper-slide>Slide 1</swiper-slide>
    <swiper-slide>Slide 2</swiper-slide>
    <swiper-slide>Slide 3</swiper-slide>
    ...
  </swiper>
</template>
<script>
  import { EffectFade } from 'swiper';
  import { Swiper, SwiperSlide } from 'swiper/vue';

  import 'swiper/css';
  import 'swiper/css/effect-fade';

  export default {
    components: {
      Swiper,
      SwiperSlide,
    },
    setup() {
      return {
        EffectFade,
      };
    },
  };
</script>

What next?

As you see it is really easy to integrate Swiper into your website or app. So here are your next steps: