Introduction to our GenZ Carousel App

An image carousel (or slider) is a UI component that displays one image at a time, with options to cycle through a list of images.

Our version includes:

• A custom image upload input
• A set of default images for first-time visitors
• Smooth transitions between images using framer-motion
• Thumbnail previews that users can click to jump to a specific image
• A responsive, visually engaging design styled with CSS and Tailwind

The carousel is interactive, personalized (with your uploaded images), and visually polished with animated effects.

This is a great beginner React project because it teaches:

• User input handling
• File reading with URL.createObjectURL
• Dynamic rendering based on state
• Conditional styling and thumbnail selection

Using third-party animation libraries like framer-motion

Project Goals

This project helps you get comfortable with:

• Setting up a React + Vite app
• Breaking down the UI into logical components
• Handling file uploads in the browser
• Animating UI elements using external libraries
• Styling using plain CSS and TailwindCSS
• Deploying your project on a platform like Netlify