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animata-moving-gradient

background-effectaurora-meshmotion on file

A React and Tailwind background wrapper that places an animated yellow-to-pink gradient behind arbitrary children. It ships as a shadcn registry TSX component with theme animation and keyframe CSS, and imports the project-local cn class-merging utility through the standard alias.

Specimen
Motion capture of the mounted demo, recorded by the harness. No audio track.
Harness screenshot of animata-moving-gradient at 375 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 375 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of animata-moving-gradient at 768 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 768 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of animata-moving-gradient at 1440 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 1440 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.

Measured

Every value below was written by the harness on the run that produced the frames above. None of it is derived from the prose.

Harness measurements recorded for animata-moving-gradient
BuildOK
MountOK
Console errors0
Uncaught page errors0
Horizontal overflowclean at 375, 768, 1440
Axe critical0
Axe serious0
Axe moderate0
Axe minor0
Gzip marginal26.3 KB (91.7 KB build, 65.4 KB baseline)
Bare modeFAIL
Provider requiredNO
Demo usedwritten from the component source API

What the harness recorded

BARE BUILD

✗ Build failed in 27.45s
error during build:
[vite:load-fallback] Could not load <sandbox>/src/lib/utils (imported by src/cut/components/animata/background/moving-gradient.tsx): ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '<sandbox>/src/lib/utils'

Verdict

A compact, flexible backdrop for Tailwind projects, with clean mounting and no reported accessibility or overflow findings. It needs a shadcn-style setup as supplied because the bare project cannot resolve its cn utility import.

Use it if

  • You need a self-contained animated backdrop that can wrap existing content.
  • Your app already uses Tailwind and the usual shadcn cn utility and path alias.
  • You want callers to override the gradient classes or disable motion through props.

Skip it if

  • Your project does not use Tailwind and you do not want to translate utility classes and animation CSS.
  • You need motion to follow the user's reduced-motion preference without adding that behavior yourself.
  • You need a decorative layer that works without a project-local cn utility or alias configuration.

Install

Installation record for animata-moving-gradient
Declared dependenciesnone declared
Missing on installnone
Bare installfails once the shadcn-style helpers are removed, so it needs that setup
Providerno provider required in the harness

In a non-shadcn project, add a cn class-merging helper, configure the matching source alias or replace the import with a relative path, and provide Tailwind with the included animation theme value and keyframes. Also add your own reduced-motion treatment if required.

Source and credit

This page is a review, not a copy. The component source lives with its author and this site does not republish it. Read the license before you use anything.

Author repository

github.com/codse/animata
License
MIT
Record published
2026-08-14

Alternatives

Other published entries for the background-effect pattern, ordered by what they measured: mounts first, then clean axe scans, then bare-mode passes, then the smaller bundle.