Building an interactive tarot card component in React: flip animations, state machines, and 78 lazy-loaded images (opens in new tab)

We shipped tarotas.com a few weeks ago. It's a tarot reading app: 78 cards, 5 languages, no signup wall. The core interaction is dead simple: shuffle the deck, draw a card, flip it, read the meaning. Getting it to feel right took longer than I expected. Here's how we built the card component in React, what tripped us up, and what actually worked. The state machine A tarot deck has four moments: idle, shuffling, drawing, and revealed. We modeled this as a simple state machine rather than a pil...