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Hover Effect

Hover over the cards and the effect slides to the currently hovered card.

Installation

Install dependencies

npm i motion clsx tailwind-merge

Add util file

lib/utils.ts
import { ClassValue, clsx } from "clsx";
import { twMerge } from "tailwind-merge";
 
export function cn(...inputs: ClassValue[]) {
  return twMerge(clsx(inputs));
}

Copy the source code

components/ui/card-hover-effect.tsx

import { cn } from "@/lib/utils";
import { AnimatePresence, motion } from "motion/react";
 
import { useState } from "react";
 
export const HoverEffect = ({
  items,
  className,
}: {
  items: {
    title: string;
    description: string;
    link: string;
  }[];
  className?: string;
}) => {
  let [hoveredIndex, setHoveredIndex] = useState<number | null>(null);
 
  return (
    <div
      className={cn(
        "grid grid-cols-1 md:grid-cols-2  lg:grid-cols-3  py-10",
        className
      )}
    >
      {items.map((item, idx) => (
        <a
          href={item?.link}
          key={item?.link}
          className="relative group  block p-2 h-full w-full"
          onMouseEnter={() => setHoveredIndex(idx)}
          onMouseLeave={() => setHoveredIndex(null)}
        >
          <AnimatePresence>
            {hoveredIndex === idx && (
              <motion.span
                className="absolute inset-0 h-full w-full bg-neutral-200 dark:bg-slate-800/[0.8] block  rounded-3xl"
                layoutId="hoverBackground"
                initial={{ opacity: 0 }}
                animate={{
                  opacity: 1,
                  transition: { duration: 0.15 },
                }}
                exit={{
                  opacity: 0,
                  transition: { duration: 0.15, delay: 0.2 },
                }}
              />
            )}
          </AnimatePresence>
          <Card>
            <CardTitle>{item.title}</CardTitle>
            <CardDescription>{item.description}</CardDescription>
          </Card>
        </a>
      ))}
    </div>
  );
};
 
export const Card = ({
  className,
  children,
}: {
  className?: string;
  children: React.ReactNode;
}) => {
  return (
    <div
      className={cn(
        "rounded-2xl h-full w-full p-4 overflow-hidden bg-black border border-transparent dark:border-white/[0.2] group-hover:border-slate-700 relative z-20",
        className
      )}
    >
      <div className="relative z-50">
        <div className="p-4">{children}</div>
      </div>
    </div>
  );
};
export const CardTitle = ({
  className,
  children,
}: {
  className?: string;
  children: React.ReactNode;
}) => {
  return (
    <h4 className={cn("text-zinc-100 font-bold tracking-wide mt-4", className)}>
      {children}
    </h4>
  );
};
export const CardDescription = ({
  className,
  children,
}: {
  className?: string;
  children: React.ReactNode;
}) => {
  return (
    <p
      className={cn(
        "mt-8 text-zinc-400 tracking-wide leading-relaxed text-sm",
        className
      )}
    >
      {children}
    </p>
  );
};

Props

Prop nameTypeDescription
classNamestringThe class name of the child component.
items{title: string, description: string, link: ReactNode}items that you can map through, passed as props to the HoverEffect component
childrenReactNodeChildren to the Card CardTitle and CardDescription component

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