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Radial Orbit Gallery
RadialOrbitGallery — items arranged in a ring you drag to rotate (pointer events + a small rAF inertia decay, no animation library).
$ velocityx add radial-orbit-gallery
Built for react.
Needs react already installed
as a peer dependency.
An Astro-only project needs @astrojs/react wired up first — this won't run on its own in plain Astro.
Full docs for Radial Orbit Gallery →
Needs a licence key — buy lifetime access here, then
velocityx login once.
Project A
Placeholder caption — pass real items via the `items` prop.
- Framework
- react
- Source
- 228 lines
- RadialOrbitGallery.jsx
- Runtime
- Interactive
- runs in the browser
- Theme
- 7 tokens
- re-themes from your scale
- Responsive
- sm
- 1 breakpoint
- Dark mode
- Built in
- dark: variants
- Accessibility
- 4 ARIA
- plus keyboard support
Props
| Name | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| items | { image?, title: string, caption?: string }[] | No | DEFAULT_ITEMS | |
| radius | number | No | 150 | — px, desktop ring radius |
| autoRotate | boolean | No | true | |
| autoRotateDeg | number | No | 6 | — degrees/second when idle |
Using it
The smallest call that compiles — required props only. The import is
written for your own file at src/components/Example.jsx;
adjust the relative import if yours sits elsewhere.
Everything optional is in the table above, with its default.
import RadialOrbitGallery from './velocity/radial-orbit-gallery/RadialOrbitGallery';
export default function Example() {
return (
<RadialOrbitGallery />
);
}Built from Radial Orbit Gallery's own prop signature and the path the CLI installs it to, so it can't drift from either.
Accessibility
- ARIA roles
- listbox, option
- ARIA attributes
- aria-label, aria-selected
- Keyboard
- Handles key events directly
- Focus
- Moves or traps focus deliberately
- 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
- React hooks
- useCallback, useEffect, useRef, useState
- Browser APIs
- matchMedia, ResizeObserver
- Breakpoints
- sm:
- Dark mode
- Carries its own dark: variants
Theming
This component paints from 7 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.
accent-300accent-500accent-700primary-300primary-500primary-600primary-700
Also reads --vx-primary-500
directly.
Get 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.
-
src/components/velocity/radial-orbit-gallery/RadialOrbitGallery.jsx228 lines
Copy the paths
src/components/velocity/radial-orbit-gallery/RadialOrbitGallery.jsxRadial Orbit Gallery — questions
How do I install Radial Orbit Gallery?
Run velocityx add radial-orbit-gallery . The CLI writes the source straight into your project — it is not a runtime package dependency.
Do I need a licence for Radial Orbit Gallery?
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 Radial Orbit Gallery 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 Radial Orbit Gallery ship JavaScript to my users?
Yes. It runs in the browser (useCallback, useEffect, useRef, useState) and uses matchMedia, ResizeObserver, so it needs to hydrate — in Astro, give it a client:* directive.
Will Radial Orbit Gallery match my brand colours?
Yes. It paints entirely from your theme scale — 7 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 Radial Orbit Gallery accessible?
It ships ARIA roles (listbox, option), 2 ARIA attributes, its own keyboard handling, deliberate focus management. That is read directly from the source rather than claimed — you should still test it in the context you drop it into.
Does Radial Orbit Gallery work on mobile?
It carries its own responsive rules at the sm breakpoint, so it re-flows rather than relying on the page around it to do the work.
Does Radial Orbit Gallery 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 radial-orbit-gallery- 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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