As far as I know, the island feature isn't strictly required. a plain astro component with maybe a little client side vanilla js should do the trick. The whole point of islands is that you can use whatever you want in each page/component, and mix react stuff, with vue stuff, with vanilla js stuff, etc. to your hearts content... Generally, if it works for you, go for it....
#Can we use interactive astro component without island feature
undone terrace
As far as I know, the island feature isn't strictly required. a plain astro comp...
I have 2 image carousels and both are using html data props to define using scripts tag