Selection Through the Looking Glass: A 3D Stack Component for Mantine

A Mantine component that turns flat item selection into a spatial, 3D card-stack browsing experience — with keyboard, wheel, touch, and click navigation built in. Introduction Remember the first time you used macOS Time Machine? That moment when your desktop peeled away into an infinite corridor of snapshots, and navigating through time suddenly felt physical . That spatial metaphor stuck with us. mantine-depth-select brings that same sense of depth to any selection UI in your React application — pricing plans, document versions, onboarding steps, or anything else where browsing through stacked content beats scrolling a flat list. It's a single component with zero extra dependencies, built entirely on Mantine 8's Styles API. What is DepthSelect? DepthSelect renders an array of items as a 3D stack of cards. The frontmost card is the active selection; cards behind it recede with progressive scale, vertical offset, opacity, and blur — all configurable per-level. When the user navigates (v