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magicui-grid-pattern

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A React SVG background that draws a repeating grid and can optionally fill selected cells. It ships as a shadcn registry component, uses React's stable ID hook, Tailwind utility classes, and the local cn class-merging helper, with no declared third-party package dependencies.

Specimen
Harness screenshot of magicui-grid-pattern at 375 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 375 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of magicui-grid-pattern at 768 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 768 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of magicui-grid-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-grid-pattern
BuildOK
MountOK
Console errors0
Uncaught page errors0
Horizontal overflowclean at 375, 768, 1440
Axe critical0
Axe serious0
Axe moderate0
Axe minor0
Gzip marginal26.6 KB (92.0 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 29.68s
error during build:
[vite:load-fallback] Could not load <sandbox>/src/lib/utils (imported by src/cut/grid-pattern.tsx): ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '<sandbox>/src/lib/utils'

Verdict

A focused, accessible decorative SVG with useful controls and clean runtime behavior. It needs a shadcn-style setup before it will build in a bare project, but it is a sensible choice when the existing Tailwind stack already supplies that convention.

Use it if

  • You need a decorative grid behind a hero, dashboard, or empty state.
  • You want to control grid spacing, offsets, dashed strokes, or highlighted cells through props.
  • Your project already has Tailwind and a shadcn-style utility alias in place.

Skip it if

  • Your design calls for an animated, interactive, or canvas-based background.
  • You cannot support absolute positioning and a positioned parent around the background.
  • You want a dependency-free drop-in for a project without Tailwind or path aliases.

Install

Installation record for magicui-grid-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 styling, configure the at-sign source alias, and provide the local lib/utils module with a cn class-merging helper. Alternatively, replace that import with your project's class-name utility and translate the utility classes to your styling system.

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.