Apple Cards Carousel

A sleek and minimal carousel implementation, as seen on apple.com

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Installation

Run the following command

npx shadcn@latest add @aceternity/apple-cards-carousel

Add useOutsideClick hook

hooks/use-outside-click.ts
import React, { useEffect } from "react";
 
export const useOutsideClick = (
  ref: React.RefObject<HTMLDivElement>,
  callback: Function
) => {
  useEffect(() => {
    const listener = (event: any) => {
      if (!ref.current || ref.current.contains(event.target)) {
        return;
      }
      callback(event);
    };
 
    document.addEventListener("mousedown", listener);
    document.addEventListener("touchstart", listener);
 
    return () => {
      document.removeEventListener("mousedown", listener);
      document.removeEventListener("touchstart", listener);
    };
  }, [ref, callback]);
};

Examples

Standard

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With Layout Changes

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Props

PropTypeDefaultDescription
itemsJSX.Element[]RequiredArray of JSX elements to be displayed in the carousel
initialScrollnumber0Initial scroll position of the carousel

Card Component

PropTypeDefaultDescription
cardCardRequiredObject containing card details (src, title, category, content)
indexnumberRequiredIndex of the card in the carousel
layoutbooleanfalseWhether to use layout animations

BlurImage Component

PropTypeDefaultDescription
heightnumber | string-Height of the image
widthnumber | string-Width of the image
srcstringRequiredSource URL of the image
classNamestring-Additional CSS classes for the image
altstring"Background of a beautiful view"Alt text for the image
...restImageProps-Any other props accepted by Next.js Image component

Note: The Card type is defined as:

type Card = {
  src: string;
  title: string;
  category: string;
  content: React.ReactNode;
};

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