Carousel: HextaUI and shadcn/ui

The HextaUI Carousel keeps the shadcn/ui names and theme tokens and installs with the same CLI. This page lists what differs, read from the source of both. The shadcn/ui side is its base-vega registry as of 2026-10-16.

At a glance

Measure	HextaUI	shadcn/ui
Exported parts	10	5
Props the wrapper handles	23	8
Lines of source	1667	256
npm dependencies	`@base-ui/react@^1.8.0@tabler/icons-reactclass-variance-authoritycn`	`cnembla-carousel-react`
Built from	`buttonnumber-flowtheme`	`button`

More source is not better on its own. Most of the extra lines in HextaUI handle states, motion and edge cases that you would otherwise write yourself.

Parts

Only in HextaUICarouselDotsCarouselCounterCarouselAutoplayToggleCarouselThumbnailsCarouselThumbnail

In bothCarouselCarouselContentCarouselItemCarouselPreviousCarouselNext

Props HextaUI adds

Props the HextaUI wrapper handles itself that the shadcn/ui wrapper does not. Props passed straight through to Base UI or the underlying library are left out, because both versions accept them.

Prop	What it does
`defaultIndex`Carousel	See the API reference
`rewind`Carousel	Wrap from the last slide back to the first.
`mouseDrag`Carousel	Let a mouse drag the slides.
`autoplay`Carousel	Advance on a timer. delay defaults to 5000ms, minimum 1000ms.
`viewportClassName`CarouselContent	Applied to the scrolling viewport.
`variant`CarouselAutoplayToggle	See the API reference

Variants

Prop	In both	Only HextaUI	Only shadcn/ui
`spacing`Carousel	–	`nonesmdefaultlg`	–
`orientation`CarouselNav	–	`horizontalvertical`	–
`direction`CarouselNav	–	`previousnext`	–

The HextaUI version

import {
  Carousel,
  CarouselContent,
  CarouselDots,
  CarouselItem,
  CarouselNext,
  CarouselPrevious,
} from "@/components/ui/carousel"

const slides = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

export function CarouselDemo() {
  return (
    <div className="w-full max-w-xs px-12">
      <Carousel aria-label="Numbers">
        <CarouselContent>
          {slides.map((value) => (
            <CarouselItem key={value}>
              <div className="flex aspect-square items-center justify-center rounded-xl border bg-card p-6 text-4xl font-semibold">
                {value}
              </div>
            </CarouselItem>
          ))}
        </CarouselContent>
        <CarouselPrevious />
        <CarouselNext />
        <div className="mt-3 flex justify-center">
          <CarouselDots />
        </div>
      </Carousel>
    </div>
  )
}

Every state, the keyboard map and the API reference are on the component page.

13 of its examples also have a page of their own.

Switch one component

Run the add command with --overwrite to replace the shadcn/ui file in @/components/ui, then review the diff in git before you keep it. Imports stay the same, and components you don’t replace keep working.

pnpm dlx shadcn@latest add https://hextaui.com/r/carousel.json --overwrite

Every prop in the table above is an addition, so call sites written for shadcn/ui don’t pass it yet.
Check any part or variant listed only for shadcn/ui before you switch, and map it to the closest HextaUI one.