An animated life/career timeline that lays out yearly milestones on a horizontal scroll-scrubbed rail on desktop and a vertical rail on mobile, with floating photo cards, hover-media previews, and a tap-to-expand lightbox.
"use client";
import Lifeline from "@/components/ui/lifeline";
import type { LifelineMarker } from "@/components/ui/lifeline-utils/types";
const BIRTH_YEAR = 1990;
const CURRENT_YEAR = 2026;
const MILESTONES: Record<number, Omit<LifelineMarker, "year">> = {
1990: {
id: "born",
events: ["Born somewhere worth mentioning."],
},
2008: {
id: "school",
events: ["Finished school. Started something else."],
},
2014: {
id: "first-job",
companies: [{ id: "acme", name: "Acme" }],
events: [
[
{ type: "text", value: "Joined " },
{ type: "link", value: "Acme", href: "https://example.com" },
{ type: "text", value: " and shipped the first real thing." },
],
],
},
2019: {
id: "the-move",
events: [{ text: "Moved across the world." }],
},
2023: {
id: "the-project",
events: ["Started the project everything since has grown from."],
},
2026: {
id: "today",
events: [{ text: "Still going. 🎆", effect: "fireworks" }],
},
};
const markers: LifelineMarker[] = [];
for (let year = BIRTH_YEAR; year <= CURRENT_YEAR; year++) {
const milestone = MILESTONES[year];
markers.push(
milestone
? { year, ...milestone }
: { id: `year-${year}`, year, events: [] },
);
}
export default function LifelineDemo() {
return (
<div className="h-screen w-full">
<Lifeline markers={markers} birthYear={BIRTH_YEAR} />
</div>
);
}