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magicui-dot-pattern

background-effectaurora-mesh

A client-side React SVG that fills its container with a configurable dot grid and can optionally animate each dot with Motion. It ships as a shadcn registry TypeScript component and expects Tailwind utility classes, the Motion React package, and the usual aliased cn helper.

Specimen
Harness screenshot of magicui-dot-pattern at 375 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 375 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of magicui-dot-pattern at 768 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 768 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of magicui-dot-pattern 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 magicui-dot-pattern
BuildOK
MountOK
Console errors0
Uncaught page errors0
Horizontal overflowclean at 375, 768, 1440
Axe critical0
Axe serious0
Axe moderate0
Axe minor0
Gzip marginal66.8 KB (132.2 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 37.10s
error during build:
[vite:load-fallback] Could not load <sandbox>/src/lib/utils (imported by src/cut/dot-pattern.tsx): ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '<sandbox>/src/lib/utils'

Verdict

A flexible decorative background with clean accessibility behavior and responsive rendering. It needs a shadcn-style setup before it will build, chiefly because the source imports the conventional aliased utility helper. The optional glow also brings Motion and many SVG nodes, so use the static mode when animation adds little.

Use it if

  • You need a decorative dot field that inherits color and can be positioned behind existing content.
  • Your React app already uses Tailwind and Motion, and you want static and glowing variants from one component.
  • You want spacing, offsets, and dot radius exposed as component props.

Skip it if

  • Your page cannot run a client component or attach a window resize listener.
  • You want a dependency-free CSS background rather than an SVG with one rendered circle per grid point.
  • You need deterministic glowing animation, since timing values are randomized during rendering.

Install

Installation record for magicui-dot-pattern
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 Tailwind CSS and Motion for React, create a cn class-merging helper, and either configure the at-sign source alias to resolve the utility import or replace it with a relative path. Keep the component client-side and place it inside a positioned container with an explicit usable size.

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/magicuidesign/magicui
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.