Measured entry

kokonut-liquid-glass-card

carddark-futuristic

A client-side React liquid-glass card and matching button, presented as an interactive music player. It ships through a shadcn registry and builds on Tailwind utility classes, class-variance-authority, Lucide icons, Next Image, shadcn Card and Button primitives, and the usual cn helper.

Specimen
Harness screenshot of kokonut-liquid-glass-card at 375 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 375 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of kokonut-liquid-glass-card at 768 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 768 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of kokonut-liquid-glass-card 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 kokonut-liquid-glass-card
BuildOK
MountOK
Console errors0
Uncaught page errors0
Horizontal overflowclean at 375, 768, 1440
Axe critical0
Axe serious0
Axe moderate0
Axe minor0
Gzip marginal42.4 KB (107.8 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 1m 49s
error during build:
[vite:load-fallback] Could not load <sandbox>/src/lib/utils (imported by src/cut/components/kokonutui/liquid-glass-card.tsx): ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '<sandbox>/src/lib/utils'

Verdict

A credible, adaptable glass-card implementation with useful interaction and accessibility details. It needs a shadcn-style setup and carries more styling and dependency weight than a basic card, so it fits established design-system projects better than lean standalone apps.

Use it if

  • You want a polished media or notification card with working playback and seek interactions.
  • Your app already uses shadcn primitives, Tailwind utilities, and Next Image.
  • You need reusable glass-styled card and button exports, not just a fixed demo.
  • You want light and dark styling with reduced-motion handling already considered.

Skip it if

  • You need a framework-neutral component with no Next or shadcn assumptions.
  • You are keeping icon, variant, and UI primitive dependencies to a minimum.
  • Your design avoids translucent surfaces, backdrop filters, or decorative SVG effects.
  • You need production media controls wired to real audio rather than demo state.

Install

Installation record for kokonut-liquid-glass-card
Declared dependencieslucide-react, radix-ui
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 compatible Card and Button primitives, a cn class-merging helper, Tailwind with the referenced utilities and animation, class-variance-authority, Lucide React, and Next Image support or replace that image component with your framework's equivalent.

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.

Alternatives

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