React Native Swipeable Card Stack

Implement a swipeable card stack, similar to Tinder, with ease.

This library is based on react-native-reanimated and on react-native-gesture-handler.

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Features

• ✅ support swipes to the left, right, top, and bottom
• ✅ support unswipes
• ✅ support preventing card translation along any direction
• ✅ support customizing swipe and unswipe animations
• ✅ support customizing the criteria for which a card is swiped
• ✅ support both horizontal and vertical device orientations
• ✅ allow performing your own animations on the cards based on the swipe/unswipe progression

Example

type CatItem = {
  name: string
  age: number
}

const cats: CatItem[] = [
  { name: 'Felix', age: 6 },
  { name: 'Lily', age: 3 },
  { name: 'Diego', age: 2 },
]

export const CatStack = () => {
  const ref = useRef<SwipeableCardStackRef>(null)

  return (
    <>
      <SwipeableCardStack
        data={cats}
        renderCard={CatCard}
        lockedDirections={['top', 'bottom']}
        ref={ref}
      />
      <Button
        title="Swipe left"
        onPress={() => {
          ref.current?.swipe('left')
        }}
      />
      <Button
        title="Unswipe"
        onPress={() => {
          ref.current?.unswipe()
        }}
      />
      <Button
        title="Swipe right"
        onPress={() => {
          ref.current?.swipe('right')
        }}
      />
    </>
  )
}

const CatCard = ({ data, xAnimationPosition }: RenderCardProps<CatItem>) => {
  const cardAnimatedStyle = useAnimatedStyle(() => ({
    backgroundColor: interpolateColor(
      xAnimationPosition.value,
      [-1, 0, 1],
      ['#F44336', 'white', '#43A047'],
    ),
  }))

  return (
    <Animated.View
      style={[
        {
          flex: 1,
          justifyContent: 'center',
          alignItems: 'center',
        },
        cardAnimatedStyle,
      ]}
    >
      <Text>{`${data.name} - ${data.age}`}</Text>
    </Animated.View>
  )
}

To see two more complete examples, check out the example app.

Installation

First, follow react-native-reanimated and react-native-gesture-handler installation guides.

Then install the library through npm:

Expo

expo install react-native-swipeable-card-stack

Bare React Native

yarn add react-native-swipeable-card-stack

Documentation

This library exposes a SwipeableCardStack component that displays the cards, reacts to user gestures, performs some animations and send swipping events.

Here is the list of props this component accepts. Only data and renderCard are mandatory.

SwipeableCardStack's props

▶️ data

T[]

An array of data items that will be passed to renderCard.

▶️ renderCard

(params: RenderCardProps<T>) => ReactNode

A function that renders a card based on the provided data and additional props. (see renderCard's additional props).

▶️ cardWrapperStyle

StyleProp<ViewStyle>

An optional ViewStyle that will be applied to the wrapper component of every card.

Default value: undefined.

▶️ onActiveCardUpdate

(swipeUpdate: SwipeUpdate<T>) => void

An optional function that will be triggered everytime a swipe update occurs.

This is where you should listen for important updates such as a validated swipe.

Default value: undefined.

▶️ initialIndex

number

An optional number that will be used as the initial index of the card stack.

This is useful when you don't want the first item in data to be the card on top of the stack.

Default value: 0.

▶️ numberOfRenderedCards

number

How many cards should be rendered at the same time.

To improve performance, react-native-swipeable-card-stack does not render all the cards. This has usually no visual impact from a user standpoint because most of the cards are hidden by the two first cards of the stack. However, if you encounter a case where some cards are not visible, you may want to increase this value.

Default value: 3.

▶️ endedSwipePosition

SwipeAxisDependentProp<number>

The position where the cards rest at the end of a swipe.

This prop accepts either a number or an object whose keys are swipe axis ("x" and "y") and whose values are numbers.

For example, if you set endedSwipePosition to 400, a card swiped respectively to the left or to the bottom will end its movement at respectively +400 to the left or +400 to the bottom. A card swiped respectively to the right or to the top will end its movement at respectively +400 to the right or +400 to the top.

Before any swipe, the cards sit idle at the position 0.

Default value: { x: 1.5 * screenWidth, y: 1 * screenHeight }.

▶️ validateSwipeTranslationThreshold

SwipeAxisDependentProp<number>

The translation needed for a swipe to be considered as validated, which means that if the user releases the card, the swipe animation will finish and the swipe will be completed.

This prop accepts either a number or an object whose keys are swipe axis ("x" and "y") and whose values are numbers.

For example, if you set validatedSwipeTranslationThreshold to 200 and the user swipes 190 to the right and releases the card, the swipe will be aborted. Hovewer, if the user swipes 210 to the right, the swipe will complete.

A swipe can also be validated if the velocity is high enough, see validateSwipeVelocityThreshold.

Default value: { x: 0.4 * screenWidth, y: 0.25 * screenHeight }.

▶️ validateSwipeVelocityThreshold

SwipeAxisDependentProp<number>

The velocity needed for a swipe to be validated.

This prop accepts either a number or an object whose keys are swipe axis ("x" and "y") and whose values are numbers.

A swipe can also be validated if the translation is high enough, see validateSwipeTranslationThreshold.

Default value: 800.

▶️ validatedSwipeAnimationConfig

SwipeAxisDependentProp<(payload: PanGestureHandlerEventPayload) => WithSpringConfig>

A function that returns a reanimated SpringConfig that will be used in the final animation once a swipe is validated.

This prop can also accept an object whose keys are swipe axis ("x" and "y") and whose values are functions that return a reanimated SpringConfig.

payload is a gesture-handler payload that you can use to customize the config.

Default value: () => ({ duration: 300 }).

▶️ imperativeSwipeAnimationConfig

SwipeAxisDependentProp<WithTimingConfig | undefined>

A reanimated TimingConfig that is used when the card is imperatively swiped via ref.swipe.

This prop can also accept an object whose keys are swipe axis ("x" and "y") and whose values are reanimated TimingConfig.

Default value: { duration: 300, easing: Easing.inOut(Easing.quad) }.

▶️ stoppedSwipeAnimationConfig

SwipeAxisDependentProp<WithTimingConfig | undefined>

A reanimated TimingConfig that is used when the swipe is stopped without being validated and the card position gets reset.

This prop can also accept an object whose keys are swipe axis ("x" and "y") and whose values are reanimated TimingConfig.

Default value: { duration: 300, easing: Easing.inOut(Easing.quad) }.

▶️ unswipeAnimationConfig

SwipeAxisDependentProp<WithTimingConfig | undefined>

A reanimated TimingConfig that is used when an unswipe (undoing of a swipe) is performed.

This prop can also accept an object whose keys are swipe axis ("x" and "y") and whose values are reanimated TimingConfig.

Default value: { duration: 300, easing: Easing.inOut(Easing.quad) }.

▶️ lockedDirections

SwipeDirection[]

An array of directions ("left", "right", "top" or "bottom") in which cards cannot be moved.

For example, if you want to only allow horizontal swipes, you should set lockedDirections to ["top", "bottom"].

Defaut value: [].

renderCard's additional props

▶️ data

T

The data to be used to render the card.

▶️ index

number

The index of the card in the stack.

▶️ status

CardStatus

Whether the card has been swiped, is the current one or is unswiped (and not the current one).

▶️ xAnimationPosition

SharedValue<number>

A reanimated SharedValue that is synced with the swipe x position of the current card and can be used to perform custom animations.

The value runs between -1 (the card is totally swiped to the left) and 1 (the card is totally swiped to the right).

A value of 0 means the card is at its resting x position.

▶️ yAnimationPosition

SharedValue<number>

A reanimated SharedValue that is synced with the swipe y position of the current card and can be used to perform custom animations.

The value runs between -1 (the card is totally swiped to the top) and 1 (the card is totally swiped to the bottom).

A value of 0 means the card is at its resting y position.

SwipeableCardStack's ref

If you declare a ref and pass it to SwipeableCardStack you can imperatively call these functions:

▶️ swipe

(direction: SwipeDirection) => void

Imperatively swipe the current card to the provided direction. The direction can either be 'left', 'right', 'top' or 'bottom'.

▶️ unswipe

() => void

Imperatively undo the last swipe.

▶️ canUnswipe

() => boolean

Check if the last swipe can be undone. This is true if and only if a card in the stack has been swiped before.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.