Swipeable card stack using Vue.js and interact.js

I had an opportunity to work on a project which goal was to create a card game that anyone can play with their friends.

One element of the development process was to create an interactive card stack. The card stack had a set of requirements, including:

• It should contain a few cards from the collection.
• The first card should be interactive.
• The user should be able to swipe the card in different directions that indicate an intent to accept, reject or skip the card.

This article will explain how to create that and make it interactive using Vue.js and interact.js. I created an example for you to refer to as we go through the process of creating a component that is in charge of displaying that card stack and a second component that is responsible for rendering a single card and managing user interactions in it.

Step 1: Create the GameCard component in Vue

Let’s start by creating a component that will show a card, but without any interactions just yet. We’ll call this file GameCard.vue and, in the component template, we’ll render a card wrapper and the keyword for a specific card. This is the file we’ll be working in throughout this post.

// GameCard.vue