Glide JS with react

followed the documentation and got the following error: TypeError: Cannot read property 'querySelector' of undefined. I have added the following to my index.html

<link
      rel="stylesheet"
      href="node_modules/@glidejs/glide/dist/css/glide.core.min.css"
    />

for some reason glide breaks my entire application. Is there another step I need to follow in order to get GlideJS to work in a create-react-app? any suggestions would help a lot. Thanks! my code is as follows:

import React from "react"
import Glide from "@glidejs/glide"

const Test = () => {
  new Glide(".glide").mount()
  return (
    <>
      {" "}
      <div className='glide'>
        <div className='glide__track' data-glide-el='track'>
          <ul className='glide__slides'>
            <li className='glide__slide slider'>1</li>
            <li className='glide__slide slider'>2</li>
            <li className='glide__slide slider'>3</li>
            <li className='glide__slide slider'>4</li>
          </ul>
        </div>
        <div className='glide__arrows' data-glide-el='controls'>
          <button
            className='glide__arrow glide__arrow--prev'
            data-glide-dir='<'
          >
            prev
          </button>
          <button
            className='glide__arrow glide__arrow--next'
            data-glide-dir='>'
          >
            next
          </button>
        </div>
      </div>
    </>
  )
}

export default Test

Solution

Use useEffect to mimick componentDidMount(). And mount the slider inside of useEffect()

Try something like this:

import React, { useEffect } from "react"
import Glide from "@glidejs/glide"

// Using SCSS
import "./styles.scss"

const sliderConfiguration= {
  gap: 20,
  perView: 2,
  startAt: 0,
  type: "slider"
};

const Test = () => {
  const slider = new Glide('.glide', sliderConfiguration);

  useEffect(() => {
    return () => slider.mount()
  }, [slider])

  return (
    <>
      {" "}
      <div className='glide'>
        <div className='glide__track' data-glide-el='track'>
          <ul className='glide__slides'>
            <li className='glide__slide slider'>1</li>
            <li className='glide__slide slider'>2</li>
            <li className='glide__slide slider'>3</li>
            <li className='glide__slide slider'>4</li>
          </ul>
        </div>
        <div className='glide__arrows' data-glide-el='controls'>
          <button
            className='glide__arrow glide__arrow--prev'
            data-glide-dir='<'
          >
            prev
          </button>
          <button
            className='glide__arrow glide__arrow--next'
            data-glide-dir='>'
          >
            next
          </button>
        </div>
      </div>
    </>
  )
}

export default Test

styles.scss

// Required Core Stylesheet
@import "node_modules/@glidejs/glide/src/assets/sass/glide.core";

Note: If your slide items using a dynamic data, you should pass variable that contain the data, to useEffect() dependencies.