Card Dealer
A dealer's deck: Deal flicks cards one by one from the pile into a fanned hand, each flipping face up as it lands, and Collect sweeps them back.
- Category: Interactive React Animations
- Licence: Charcoal UI Pro
- Built with: React 19, Tailwind CSS 4, Motion
- Dependencies: motion, clsx, tailwind-merge
Examples
Card Dealer
API reference
| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
hand | number | 5 | |
stagger | number | 0.12 | |
className | string | — |
About Card Dealer
Card Dealer flicks cards one by one from the pile into a fanned hand, each flipping face up as it lands, and Collect sweeps them back. It is a satisfying moment for games and reveals.
Card Dealer is an interactive effect for React 19, styled with Tailwind CSS 4 and animated with Motion. It drops into Next.js, Vite, Remix or Astro through the shadcn CLI as a single file you own.
When to use Card Dealer
- Card and casino games.
- Reward and reveal moments.
- Onboarding with a twist.
- Tarot and quiz apps.
How it works
The deck is shuffled with Fisher-Yates, and each card has a delayed spring and a 3D flip. The dealt hand is announced as text, and reduced motion places cards instantly.
Pointer effects have a keyboard or static equivalent, and nothing that matters depends on hover alone. With prefers-reduced-motion on, it holds still or settles instantly instead of animating.
Customizing Card Dealer
Every prop is documented in the API reference above with its type and default. The ones you will reach for first are listed here.
The Customize panel next to the preview lets you change hand, stagger live, and the Code tab updates to match, so the snippet you copy already carries your values.
- hand (number, default 5).
- stagger (number, default 0.12).
Goes well with Card Dealer
These interactive pieces share its tokens and motion language, so they sit together on one page without clashing.
- Hover Reveal List: A React hover reveal list: hovering a row floats its image beside the pointer
- Pixel Grid: A React pixel grid: cells light up under the pointer and fade slowly
- Draggable Cards: React draggable cards: polaroids scattered on a table you can pick up
- Image Accordion: A React image accordion: the hovered panel expands to reveal its caption
- Velocity Marquee: A React velocity marquee: big text that speeds up and flips with scroll
Install Card Dealer
npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/card-dealerCard Dealer is part of Charcoal UI Pro. One seat unlocks all 393 Pro components, 112 landing-page sections and 100 full templates, for every personal and client project, with updates included. Add the @charcoal registry once with your access token, then the command above copies card-dealer.tsx into components/ui and installs clsx, tailwind-merge.
You own the file you install: no runtime package, no lock-in, nothing to keep in sync. Change it however your product needs.
See Charcoal UI Pro pricing · Pro setup
Frequently asked questions
- How do I install Card Dealer?
- Card Dealer is part of Charcoal UI Pro. Add the @charcoal registry to components.json with your access token, then run npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/card-dealer. It copies card-dealer.tsx into components/ui and installs motion, clsx, tailwind-merge.
- Is Card Dealer free for commercial use?
- Card Dealer needs a Charcoal UI Pro seat, monthly or a one-time lifetime price. A seat covers unlimited personal and commercial projects, including client work, and every future Pro component.
- Does Card Dealer work with Next.js?
- Yes. It is a client component for React 19 styled with Tailwind CSS 4, so it works in the Next.js App Router and Pages Router, Vite, Remix and Astro.
- Can an AI coding agent install Card Dealer?
- Yes. Connect the Charcoal UI MCP server (https://charcoalui.com/mcp) to Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client; get_component returns Card Dealer's props and get_install_command returns the exact command.