react-slick vs react-icons

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react-slick		react-icons
	Project
17	Mentions	91
11,529	Stars	11,036
-	Growth	1.6%
7.8	Activity	7.9
8 days ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
JavaScript	Language	TypeScript
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

react-slick

Posts with mentions or reviews of react-slick. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-02.

React Carousel that allows for variable height and vertically scrollable content
3 projects | /r/react | 2 Apr 2023

1 - React Alice Carousel : https://github.com/maxmarinich/react-alice-carousel 2 - React Slick : https://react-slick.neostack.com/ 3 - React Responsive Carousel : https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-responsive-carousel
Trying to remember the name of a library...
7 projects | /r/reactjs | 29 Mar 2023
Need help with intersection observor
1 project | /r/Frontend | 3 Mar 2023

No, we have a bug in slick slider, This issue is quite common and no solution yet. https://github.com/akiran/react-slick/issues/540
Best Carlousel library for React?
4 projects | /r/reactjs | 22 Oct 2022
Hey! I just started coding in react, and I love it, but I would really appreciate some help.
2 projects | /r/react | 1 Oct 2022
Best NPM Package for React.js
18 projects | dev.to | 21 Jun 2022

https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-slick (I personally use it)
React Slick Slider with Delete functionality
1 project | dev.to | 14 Jun 2022

Sliders are one of the most common and widely used ways to display images in our web applications. There are many packages that allow us to make use of pre-built sliders and make our websites beautiful. Today, I will discuss the react-slick-carousel over here and display the images using react slick carousel, also we will create a delete button with each image allowing user to delete the image on the fly. You can read further documentation related to react-slick-slider here
25 React component libraries you just might need for your next project!
19 projects | dev.to | 31 May 2022

react-slick React carousel component.
TypeError: Cannot read property 'userAgent' of undefined
1 project | /r/codehunter | 28 Apr 2022

I am trying to integrate react-slick slider into my ReactJS application.
What do you use for a Slider / Carousel on a Product Page?
1 project | /r/reactjs | 9 Apr 2022

I haven't used a carousel library in long time but maybe https://github.com/akiran/react-slick will help you

react-icons

Posts with mentions or reviews of react-icons. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-05.

Squeezing more performance out of your Nextjs App
4 projects | dev.to | 5 Feb 2024
The 20 most used React libraries
9 projects | dev.to | 29 Dec 2023

react-icons: Quickly integrate a variety of icons into your React app. Learn more
Free Icons for your reactjs and web applications
4 projects | dev.to | 28 Dec 2023

3. React Icons
Building the Play Button
1 project | dev.to | 15 Dec 2023

We make use of react-icons to display the play and pause indications.
Icons used by existing apps
1 project | /r/webdev | 9 Dec 2023

If you're using React, I can recommend this: https://react-icons.github.io/react-icons/
Complete React and Tailwind CSS Website Design Tutorial | Build an Educational Landing Page
6 projects | dev.to | 5 Dec 2023

Links to external resources like Tailwind CSS, Google Fonts, and React Icons are provided, offering additional references for users.
Construindo um Painel de Blog Dinâmico com Next.js
6 projects | dev.to | 1 Dec 2023

react-icons - lib de icones para react.
Building with React JS: Create your own Youtube Video Player: Starting with Basics
2 projects | dev.to | 25 Nov 2023

As you can observe, here we again make use of style-components to create a container for the underlying icon. Also, we make use of the react-icons that provide a react wrapper for icons from various providers. Here we make use of the icons from the HeroIcons2 provider hence we import it from hi2 from the react-icons
Unveiling the Effects of Icons on Website Performance
1 project | dev.to | 3 Oct 2023

As you can observe, the homepage consists of a few text elements and a navigation bar adorned with icons. To achieve this, I employed Material-UI (MUI) and React Icons. However, there's a noticeable hiccup - the page, ideally, should load swiftly, but instead, it's a bit sluggish. Even more concerning, it's transferring more data than anticipated.
Icon Buddy – 100K+ Open Source SVG Icons, Fully Customizable
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jul 2023

Similar concept to react-icons (https://react-icons.github.io/react-icons/)in that regard.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing react-slick and react-icons you can also consider the following projects:

Swiper - Most modern mobile touch slider with hardware accelerated transitions

iconify-react - Iconify icon component for React

react-responsive-carousel - React.js Responsive Carousel (with Swipe)

heroicons - A set of free MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons for UI development.

react-awesome-slider - React content transition slider. Awesome Slider is a 60fps, light weight, performant component that renders an animated set of production ready UI general purpose sliders with fullpage transition support for NextJS and GatsbyJS. 🖥️ 📱

material-design-icons - Material Design icons by Google (Material Symbols)

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

Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) - .NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.

React-Use-Smooth-Scroll - React Provider Component to add a smooth scroll effect 😍

Tailwind CSS - A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.

accessible-slick - the last (accessible) carousel you'll ever need.

react-emoji - An emoji mixin for React