react-native-swipeable-stack

A performant, customizable Tinder-like swipeable card stack for React Native. Built with Reanimated 3+ and Gesture Handler 2+ for silky-smooth 60fps animations.

📖 Read the Documentation

✨ Features

• 🎯 Smooth Gestures - Pan gesture with spring physics for natural feel
• ⚡ 60fps Animations - All animations run on the UI thread
• 🎨 Customizable Overlays - LIKE/NOPE labels with opacity transitions
• 🔄 Undo Support - Go back to the previous card
• 🎮 Imperative API - Trigger swipes from buttons via ref
• 📦 Typed - Full TypeScript support
• ⚙️ Configurable - Thresholds, animations, styling all customizable

📦 Installation

# With npm
npm install react-native-swipeable-stack

# With yarn
yarn add react-native-swipeable-stack

Peer Dependencies

Make sure you have these installed:

npm install react-native-reanimated react-native-gesture-handler

And follow their setup guides:

• React Native Reanimated
• React Native Gesture Handler

🚀 Quick Start

import { SwipeableStack, SwipeableStackRef } from 'react-native-swipeable-stack';
import { useRef } from 'react';
import { View, Text, Image, StyleSheet } from 'react-native';

interface Item {
  id: string;
  title: string;
  image: string;
}

const data: Item[] = [
  { id: '1', title: 'Card 1', image: 'https://picsum.photos/400/600' },
  { id: '2', title: 'Card 2', image: 'https://picsum.photos/400/601' },
  { id: '3', title: 'Card 3', image: 'https://picsum.photos/400/602' },
];

export default function App() {
  const stackRef = useRef<SwipeableStackRef>(null);

  return (
    <View style={styles.container}>
      <SwipeableStack
        ref={stackRef}
        data={data}
        keyExtractor={(item) => item.id}
        renderCard={(item) => (
          <View style={styles.card}>
            <Image source={{ uri: item.image }} style={styles.image} />
            <Text style={styles.title}>{item.title}</Text>
          </View>
        )}
        onSwipeRight={(item) => console.log('Liked:', item.title)}
        onSwipeLeft={(item) => console.log('Nope:', item.title)}
        onEmpty={() => console.log('No more cards!')}
        renderRightOverlay={() => (
          <View style={styles.overlayLike}>
            <Text style={styles.overlayText}>LIKE</Text>
          </View>
        )}
        renderLeftOverlay={() => (
          <View style={styles.overlayNope}>
            <Text style={styles.overlayText}>NOPE</Text>
          </View>
        )}
      />
      
      {/* Action Buttons */}
      <View style={styles.buttons}>
        <Button title="✕" onPress={() => stackRef.current?.swipeLeft()} />
        <Button title="↺" onPress={() => stackRef.current?.undo()} />
        <Button title="♥" onPress={() => stackRef.current?.swipeRight()} />
      </View>
    </View>
  );
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: { flex: 1 },
  card: { 
    width: 340, 
    height: 500, 
    borderRadius: 20, 
    overflow: 'hidden',
    backgroundColor: '#fff',
    shadowColor: '#000',
    shadowOffset: { width: 0, height: 4 },
    shadowOpacity: 0.2,
    shadowRadius: 8,
  },
  image: { flex: 1 },
  title: { padding: 16, fontSize: 24, fontWeight: 'bold' },
  buttons: { 
    flexDirection: 'row', 
    justifyContent: 'space-around', 
    padding: 20 
  },
  overlayLike: {
    borderWidth: 4,
    borderColor: '#22c55e',
    borderRadius: 8,
    padding: 8,
    transform: [{ rotate: '-20deg' }],
  },
  overlayNope: {
    borderWidth: 4,
    borderColor: '#ef4444',
    borderRadius: 8,
    padding: 8,
    transform: [{ rotate: '20deg' }],
  },
  overlayText: { fontSize: 32, fontWeight: '800' },
});

📖 API Reference

<SwipeableStack />

The main component for rendering a stack of swipeable cards.

Props

Prop	Type	Default	Description
data	T[]	required	Array of items to display
renderCard	(item: T, index: number) => ReactNode	required	Render function for each card
keyExtractor	(item: T) => string	required	Unique key for each item
onSwipeLeft	(item: T, index: number) => void	-	Called when card swiped left
onSwipeRight	(item: T, index: number) => void	-	Called when card swiped right
onSwipeComplete	(direction, item, index) => void	-	Called on any swipe
onEmpty	() => void	-	Called when all cards are swiped
onIndexChange	(index: number) => void	-	Called when current index changes
swipeThreshold	number	screenWidth * 0.3	Distance to trigger swipe
velocityThreshold	number	800	Velocity to trigger swipe
visibleCards	number	2	Number of visible cards in stack
maxRotation	number	15	Max rotation angle in degrees
verticalSwipeFriction	number	0.2	Dampens vertical movement
disabled	boolean	false	Disable gestures
renderLeftOverlay	() => ReactNode	-	Custom "NOPE" overlay
renderRightOverlay	() => ReactNode	-	Custom "LIKE" overlay
overlayConfig	OverlayConfig	see below	Overlay opacity settings
animationConfig	AnimationConfig	see below	Animation physics
containerStyle	ViewStyle	-	Container style
cardWrapperStyle	ViewStyle	-	Card wrapper style
initialIndex	number	0	Starting card index

Ref Methods (via SwipeableStackRef)

const stackRef = useRef<SwipeableStackRef>(null);

// Programmatic swipe left
stackRef.current?.swipeLeft();

// Programmatic swipe right
stackRef.current?.swipeRight();

// Undo last swipe
stackRef.current?.undo();

// Get current index
const index = stackRef.current?.getCurrentIndex();

Animation Config

interface AnimationConfig {
  swipeSpring?: {
    stiffness?: number;  // Default: 200
    damping?: number;    // Default: 20
    mass?: number;       // Default: 0.5
  };
  returnSpring?: {
    stiffness?: number;  // Default: 300
    damping?: number;    // Default: 30
  };
  programmaticTiming?: {
    duration?: number;   // Default: 200ms
  };
}

Overlay Config

interface OverlayConfig {
  inputRange?: [number, number];   // Default: [0, 0.2] (% of screen)
  outputRange?: [number, number];  // Default: [0, 1] (opacity)
}

🎣 Hooks

For advanced use cases, you can use the individual hooks:

useSwipeableStack

Manages stack state with imperative controls.

import { useSwipeableStack } from 'react-native-swipeable-stack';

const {
  currentIndex,
  currentItem,
  nextItem,
  isEmpty,
  swipeLeft,
  swipeRight,
  undo,
  manualTrigger, // SharedValue for triggering swipes
  swipeProgress, // SharedValue for tracking swipe position
} = useSwipeableStack({
  data: items,
  onSwipeRight: (item) => console.log('Liked', item),
});

useSwipeGesture

Creates the pan gesture with spring physics.

import { useSwipeGesture } from 'react-native-swipeable-stack';

const { gesture, translateX, translateY } = useSwipeGesture({
  swipeThreshold: 100,
  velocityThreshold: 800,
  screenWidth: 400,
  verticalFriction: 0.2,
  onSwipeComplete: (direction) => console.log(direction),
});

useSwipeAnimation

Creates animated styles for card and overlays.

import { useSwipeAnimation } from 'react-native-swipeable-stack';

const { animatedCardStyle, leftOverlayStyle, rightOverlayStyle } = useSwipeAnimation({
  translateX,
  translateY,
  screenWidth: 400,
  maxRotation: 15,
  overlayConfig: { inputRange: [0, 80], outputRange: [0, 1] },
});

⚡ Performance Tips

This library follows Reanimated's performance best practices:

1. Enable Feature Flags (Reanimated 4+)

Add to your package.json:

{
  "reanimated": {
    "staticFeatureFlags": {
      "DISABLE_COMMIT_PAUSING_MECHANISM": true,
      "USE_COMMIT_HOOK_ONLY_FOR_REACT_COMMITS": true,
      "ANDROID_SYNCHRONOUSLY_UPDATE_UI_PROPS": true,
      "IOS_SYNCHRONOUSLY_UPDATE_UI_PROPS": true
    }
  }
}

2. Enable 120fps on iOS

Add to Info.plist:

<key>CADisableMinimumFrameDurationOnPhone</key>
<true/>

3. Use Memo for Card Content

const MemoizedCard = memo(({ item }) => (
  <View>...</View>
));

<SwipeableStack
  renderCard={(item) => <MemoizedCard item={item} />}
/>

🔧 Best Practices Applied

• ✅ Memoized Gestures - Gesture.Pan() wrapped in useMemo
• ✅ UI Thread Animations - All animations via worklets
• ✅ Non-layout Props - Uses transform instead of top/left
• ✅ .get()/.set() API - React Compiler compatible
• ✅ Extrapolation.CLAMP - Prevents value overflow
• ✅ runOnJS - Callbacks properly bridged to JS thread

📄 License

MIT © Refacto Studio

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