Cover Flow

A shelf of covers in 3D: drag, flick or scroll it and it settles on the one in front.

Category
Creative
Access
Free with an account
Source
213 lines · one file
States
4 drawn
Added
3 Nov 2026

The decision inside it

Only the covers near the front are drawn

Five either side by default, so a shelf of five hundred costs the same as ten. A flick coasts and always settles on a cover. It's a listbox for keyboards and screen readers, and with reduced motion it becomes a flat sliding row.

When to use it

Use Cover Flow to browse visual items one at a time: templates, albums, books, product shots. For a plain row of slides use Carousel.

Installation

How you get it

Paste this into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or any coding agent. It installs the file and uses it as it is, instead of writing a new one.

Use Liro's Cover Flow for this.
Install it: npx shadcn@latest add @liro/cover-flow
(the @liro registry is set up in components.json, with LIRO_KEY in .env.local)
Import it from @/components/ui/cover-flow.
Do not rewrite or restyle it. Pass my data through its props
and keep its built-in states.

For the full brief with every prop and the mistakes assistants usually make, use Copy prompt above. Free components install through the @liro registry with your CLI token: see the Namespaced tab.

Usage

components/template-shelf.tsx
"use client";
import { CoverFlow } from "@/components/ui/cover-flow";

type Template = { id: string; title: string; image: string };

export function TemplateShelf({ templates, onOpen }: { templates: Template[]; onOpen: (t: Template) => void }) {
  return (
    <CoverFlow
      aria-label="Templates"
      items={templates}
      getKey={(t) => t.id}
      getLabel={(t) => t.title}
      renderCover={(t) => <img src={t.image} alt="" className="size-full object-cover" />}
      onSelect={onOpen}
    />
  );
}

API reference

“Copy prompt” above puts a full brief on your clipboard, install command, dependencies, props, and the mistakes an assistant usually makes with this component.

Props

Read from the component’s own TypeScript interface when the site is built, so this table cannot drift from the file you install.

TypeNotes
itemsT[] Yes–
getKey(item: T) => string Yes–
getLabel(item: T) => string Yes–
renderCover(item: T, state: { active: boolean }) => React.ReactNode Yes–
onSelect(item: T, index: number) => void NoPressing the cover in front, or Enter.
onActiveChange(index: number) => void NoCalled as the front cover changes.
defaultIndexnumber No–
sizenumber NoCover size in pixels. Default 220.
rangenumber NoCovers drawn on each side. Default 5.
reflectionboolean NoShow the reflection. Default true.

Dependencies

npm packages

clsxframer-motionlucide-reacttailwind-merge

Liro foundations, installed alongside it

liro-theme

States

All of them are drawn by the component. None is left for you to design.

  • Settled
  • Dragging
  • Few covers
  • Empty

Accessibility

  • Keyboard reachable throughout, in visual order
  • Focus trapped in overlays, Escape closes them
  • Focus returns to whatever opened it
  • Live regions announce what changed, not that something did
  • Honours prefers-reduced-motion

Responsive behavior

  • Sizes to its container, not the viewport
  • Usable from 320px up
  • Pointer-based interaction, so trackpad and touch both work
  • No hover-only affordances