No sliding behaviour when only a single slide

[jackplug]

We are using Splide as a carousel and we are coming across what we think is an issue: We are only displaying one slide per page, we are using lazy-loaded images, and we want the carousel to loop when there are more than 1 slide. In those cases where there is only one slide, we do not want any slide behaviour at all.

While I can work around this (count the slides and pass a false value to autoplay, pagination, drag, and arrows if there are less than 2), I am wondering whether I am missing something... I'd assumed that this functionality would be the default, to be honest, as this seems to be an expected behaviour for end-users (at least in our experience), rather than a single duplicated slide.

I did notice that using type: 'slide' is a little closer to our expected results, but even then, the slide moves around a little, suggesting 'something more' to the user.

Saying all of that, I still love Splide - it's a wonderful piece of work ❤️

[Webberjo]

Could you count the slides and only create and mount the Splide object if there are more than 1?

[jackplug]

To be honest, that's what we have done in the past with other slider/carousels, but here, we are also using the Splide lazy-load feature. If we did not mount the Splide object, then we would need to work around the missing images (not a huge problem, of course, but it seems a little... hack-y somehow, like you are duplicating the functionality within SplideJS... which you are, really)

I dunno... it just seems that splide should handle a single slide situation itself, but perhaps I am not aware of those use cases where the current behaviour is required