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Scroll-Snap Product Rail

A "you might also like" row on native scroll-snap — touch swiping, momentum and keyboard support for free, with no carousel library.

118 linesNo dependenciesAdded 8 Aug 2026
  • carousel
  • rail
  • related
  • scroll snap
  • products

What's included

  • components/product-rail.tsx
  • No runtime dependencies

Works with

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • TypeScript

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License

Free to read, copy and install, for personal and non-commercial projects. Shipping it in client work or a paid product needs Pro ($79 once). The source lands in your repo and stops being ours — no attribution, nothing to upgrade.

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Source

components/product-rail.tsx
/**
 * <ProductRail> — a horizontally scrolling "you might also like" row.
 *
 * Built on native overflow scrolling with CSS scroll-snap rather than a
 * carousel library. That buys touch swiping, momentum, keyboard arrow keys
 * and a real scrollbar for free — all of which a JavaScript carousel has to
 * reimplement, usually incompletely.
 *
 * `scroll-snap-align: start` on each card and `scroll-padding-inline` on
 * the track together stop a snapped card from sitting flush against the
 * viewport edge, which is what makes a rail look like it was cropped rather
 * than designed.
 *
 * Server component.
 */

import * as React from 'react'

export interface RailProduct {
  id: string
  name: string
  /** Price in minor units — 1999 is £19.99. Never a float. */
  price: number
  /** Tailwind gradient classes standing in for the product image. */
  swatch?: string
}

/**
 * Minor units → a formatted price.
 *
 * Deliberately duplicated from `product-grid` rather than imported from it.
 * Every block in this catalog is copied on its own, and a cross-block
 * import is an invisible dependency: the file compiles here, and breaks the
 * moment someone takes this rail without also taking the grid. Three lines
 * of duplication is the cheaper mistake.
 */
function formatPrice(minor: number, currency = 'GBP', locale = 'en-GB'): string {
  return new Intl.NumberFormat(locale, { style: 'currency', currency }).format(minor / 100)
}

export interface ProductRailProps {
  products?: RailProduct[]
  heading?: string
  subheading?: string
  currency?: string
  locale?: string
  viewAllHref?: string
  className?: string
}

const DEFAULT_PRODUCTS: RailProduct[] = [
  { id: '1', name: 'Lambswool Scarf', price: 4500, swatch: 'from-rose-200 to-rose-400' },
  { id: '2', name: 'Cable Knit Jumper', price: 9800, swatch: 'from-amber-200 to-amber-500' },
  { id: '3', name: 'Corduroy Trousers', price: 7900, swatch: 'from-emerald-200 to-emerald-500' },
  { id: '4', name: 'Suede Chelsea Boots', price: 16500, swatch: 'from-stone-300 to-stone-600' },
  { id: '5', name: 'Linen Pocket Square', price: 2400, swatch: 'from-sky-200 to-sky-400' },
  { id: '6', name: 'Wool Overcoat', price: 28000, swatch: 'from-indigo-300 to-indigo-700' },
]

export function ProductRail({
  products = DEFAULT_PRODUCTS,
  heading = 'You might also like',
  subheading,
  currency = 'GBP',
  locale = 'en-GB',
  viewAllHref,
  className = '',
}: ProductRailProps) {
  return (
    <section className={`w-full ${className}`}>
      <div className="mb-4 flex items-baseline justify-between gap-4">
        <div>
          <h2 className="text-xl font-bold tracking-tight">{heading}</h2>
          {subheading ? (
            <p className="mt-0.5 text-sm text-muted-foreground">{subheading}</p>
          ) : null}
        </div>

        {viewAllHref ? (
          <a
            href={viewAllHref}
            className="shrink-0 text-sm font-medium text-muted-foreground transition-colors hover:text-foreground"
          >
            View all
          </a>
        ) : null}
      </div>

      {/*
        Native scroller. `scroll-padding-inline` keeps a snapped card off
        the edge; without it the first card looks clipped at every stop.
      */}
      <ul className="flex snap-x snap-mandatory gap-4 overflow-x-auto scroll-smooth pb-3 [scroll-padding-inline:0.25rem]">
        {products.map((product) => (
          <li
            key={product.id}
            className="w-40 min-w-0 shrink-0 snap-start sm:w-48"
          >
            <a href={`/products/${product.id}`} className="group block">
              <div className="aspect-[4/5] overflow-hidden rounded-xl border border-border/60 bg-muted">
                <div
                  aria-hidden
                  className={`h-full w-full bg-gradient-to-br ${product.swatch ?? 'from-muted to-muted-foreground/20'} transition-transform duration-500 group-hover:scale-105`}
                />
              </div>

              <p className="mt-2 truncate text-sm font-medium">{product.name}</p>
              <p className="text-sm text-muted-foreground">
                {formatPrice(product.price, currency, locale)}
              </p>
            </a>
          </li>
        ))}
      </ul>
    </section>
  )
}

Before you paste

  • Styling is Tailwind utility classes on semantic tokens (bg-card, text-muted-foreground) — it inherits your theme instead of overriding it.
  • Nothing to install. No component library, no icon package.
  • Every prop has a default, so it renders standalone before you wire it up.

Where it goes

Drop it at components/product-rail.tsx and import it where you need the section:

import { ProductRail } from '@/components/product-rail'

Customize

3 of this block’s props are simple enough to drive from here. Change them and the block below re-renders — it is the same component whose source is above, not a mock of it. Everything else it accepts is in the table underneath.

Props

Read out of the component’s own type and signature, so this cannot drift from the source below. Every prop has a default — the component renders standalone before you pass it anything.

PropTypeDefault
productsRailProduct[]DEFAULT_PRODUCTS
headingstring'You might also like'
subheadingstring—
currencystring'GBP'
localestring'en-GB'
viewAllHrefstring—
classNamestring''

Not using React?

The same block rendered once to markup, wrapped as a file your framework compiles. Tailwind classes are framework-agnostic, so the design transfers intact — the behaviour does not.

product-rail.html
<!--
  Scroll-Snap Product Rail — markup from the Hoverlab catalog.

  This is the block rendered once to HTML and wrapped as a component
  file. It is not a port of the React source: the Tailwind classes carry
  the design, which is the part that took the work, and they are the same
  in every framework.

  This block has no interactive behaviour, so nothing is missing.
-->
<section class="w-full ">
  <div class="mb-4 flex items-baseline justify-between gap-4">
    <div>
      <h2 class="text-xl font-bold tracking-tight">You might also like</h2>
    </div>
  </div>
  <ul class="flex snap-x snap-mandatory gap-4 overflow-x-auto scroll-smooth pb-3 [scroll-padding-inline:0.25rem]">
    <li class="w-40 min-w-0 shrink-0 snap-start sm:w-48">
      <a href="/products/1" class="group block">
        <div class="aspect-[4/5] overflow-hidden rounded-xl border border-border/60 bg-muted">
          <div aria-hidden="true" class="h-full w-full bg-gradient-to-br from-rose-200 to-rose-400 transition-transform duration-500 group-hover:scale-105"></div>
        </div>
        <p class="mt-2 truncate text-sm font-medium">Lambswool Scarf</p>
        <p class="text-sm text-muted-foreground">£45.00</p>
      </a>
    </li>
    <li class="w-40 min-w-0 shrink-0 snap-start sm:w-48">
      <a href="/products/2" class="group block">
        <div class="aspect-[4/5] overflow-hidden rounded-xl border border-border/60 bg-muted">
          <div aria-hidden="true" class="h-full w-full bg-gradient-to-br from-amber-200 to-amber-500 transition-transform duration-500 group-hover:scale-105"></div>
        </div>
        <p class="mt-2 truncate text-sm font-medium">Cable Knit Jumper</p>
        <p class="text-sm text-muted-foreground">£98.00</p>
      </a>
    </li>
    <li class="w-40 min-w-0 shrink-0 snap-start sm:w-48">
      <a href="/products/3" class="group block">
        <div class="aspect-[4/5] overflow-hidden rounded-xl border border-border/60 bg-muted">
          <div aria-hidden="true" class="h-full w-full bg-gradient-to-br from-emerald-200 to-emerald-500 transition-transform duration-500 group-hover:scale-105"></div>
        </div>
        <p class="mt-2 truncate text-sm font-medium">Corduroy Trousers</p>
        <p class="text-sm text-muted-foreground">£79.00</p>
      </a>
    </li>
    <li class="w-40 min-w-0 shrink-0 snap-start sm:w-48">
      <a href="/products/4" class="group block">
        <div class="aspect-[4/5] overflow-hidden rounded-xl border border-border/60 bg-muted">
          <div aria-hidden="true" class="h-full w-full bg-gradient-to-br from-stone-300 to-stone-600 transition-transform duration-500 group-hover:scale-105"></div>
        </div>
        <p class="mt-2 truncate text-sm font-medium">Suede Chelsea Boots</p>
        <p class="text-sm text-muted-foreground">£165.00</p>
      </a>
    </li>
    <li class="w-40 min-w-0 shrink-0 snap-start sm:w-48">
      <a href="/products/5" class="group block">
        <div class="aspect-[4/5] overflow-hidden rounded-xl border border-border/60 bg-muted">
          <div aria-hidden="true" class="h-full w-full bg-gradient-to-br from-sky-200 to-sky-400 transition-transform duration-500 group-hover:scale-105"></div>
        </div>
        <p class="mt-2 truncate text-sm font-medium">Linen Pocket Square</p>
        <p class="text-sm text-muted-foreground">£24.00</p>
      </a>
    </li>
    <li class="w-40 min-w-0 shrink-0 snap-start sm:w-48">
      <a href="/products/6" class="group block">
        <div class="aspect-[4/5] overflow-hidden rounded-xl border border-border/60 bg-muted">
          <div aria-hidden="true" class="h-full w-full bg-gradient-to-br from-indigo-300 to-indigo-700 transition-transform duration-500 group-hover:scale-105"></div>
        </div>
        <p class="mt-2 truncate text-sm font-medium">Wool Overcoat</p>
        <p class="text-sm text-muted-foreground">£280.00</p>
      </a>
    </li>
  </ul>
</section>
  • This is rendered HTML, not a translation of the React source. The Tailwind classes carry the design and work in any framework.
  • It is one frame: the component in its initial state, with no props applied beyond the defaults.
  • Requires Tailwind, and the design tokens the classes reference (bg-card, text-muted-foreground, and so on). The template ZIPs ship a globals.css that defines them.

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