Bento & Layout
Card Deck Stack
An interactive peeking card stack with Prev/Next and dot controls, inert isolation on background cards and a live-region status announcement.
$ velocityx add card-deck-stackBuilt for astro.
Full docs for Card Deck Stack →
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- Framework
- astro
- Source
- 240 lines
- CardDeckStack.astro
- Runtime
- Interactive
- runs in the browser
- Theme
- 4 tokens
- re-themes from your scale
- Dark mode
- Built in
- dark: variants
- Accessibility
- 6 ARIA
- plus keyboard support
Props
| Name | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| count | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | No | 3 | |
| ariaLabel | string | No | 'Card deck' | |
| className | string | No | '' |
Using it
The smallest call that compiles — required props only. The import is
written for your own file at src/components/Example.astro;
adjust the relative import if yours sits elsewhere.
Everything optional is in the table above, with its default.
---
import CardDeckStack from './velocity/card-deck-stack/CardDeckStack.astro';
---
<CardDeckStack />Built from Card Deck Stack's own prop signature and the path the CLI installs it to, so it can't drift from either.
Accessibility
- ARIA roles
- group, status
- ARIA attributes
- aria-hidden, aria-label, aria-live, aria-roledescription
- Keyboard
- Handles key events directly
- Announcements
- Uses an aria-live region
- Screen readers
- Ships screen-reader-only text
- Motion
- Respects prefers-reduced-motion
Read from the source, not asserted — anything not listed simply isn't in this component's markup.
Behaviour
- Ships client JS
- Yes — this one needs to hydrate
- Browser APIs
- matchMedia
- Dark mode
- Carries its own dark: variants
Theming
This component paints from 4 steps of
your theme scale — no hardcoded colours, and no font-family of
its own, so your type cascade wins. Override the variables and it follows.
primary-400primary-500primary-600primary-700Get the Velocity preset and CSS theme from the public source guide. The CLI theme command is not available on npm yet.
File this creates
The CLI writes this path into your project — nothing
else moves. Paths are under your source root, which defaults to
src/; pass
--dest if yours is elsewhere.
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src/components/velocity/card-deck-stack/CardDeckStack.astro240 lines
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src/components/velocity/card-deck-stack/CardDeckStack.astroCard Deck Stack — questions
How do I install Card Deck Stack?
Run velocityx add card-deck-stack . The CLI writes the source straight into your project — it is not a runtime package dependency.
Do I need a licence for Card Deck Stack?
Yes. It is part of the lifetime library — buy access at https://aidxn.com/shop/velocity-x-component-library/, authenticate once, and install it. Your lifetime licence includes future component updates.
Can I edit Card Deck Stack after installing it?
Yes — the files are yours once written. The CLI compares its lockfile hash before upgrades and refuses to overwrite code you changed.
Does Card Deck Stack ship JavaScript to my users?
Yes. It runs in the browser and uses matchMedia, so it needs to hydrate — in Astro, give it a client:* directive.
Will Card Deck Stack match my brand colours?
Yes. It paints entirely from your theme scale — 4 steps of primary-* / accent-* — with no hardcoded hex values and no font-family of its own. Override the theme CSS variables and it follows your design system instead of ours.
Is Card Deck Stack accessible?
It ships ARIA roles (group, status), 4 ARIA attributes, its own keyboard handling. That is read directly from the source rather than claimed — you should still test it in the context you drop it into.
Does Card Deck Stack pull in any dependencies?
No external ones. Every component in the library is built with react/react-dom or plain Astro only — no GSAP, Radix, Swiper or Headless UI — which is what makes dropping it into an existing project safe.
Set up & reference
All docs →Install this component:
$ velocityx add card-deck-stack- 2. Install the theme — run this first, once per project Do this once per project, before your first component.
- The palette gotcha — this one bites silently Silent failure — the component renders, just unstyled.
- Your edits are safe by default What happens to your changes when you upgrade.
- You own the code What you are actually buying.
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