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magicui-striped-pattern

background-effectdark-futuristic

A decorative React SVG that tiles diagonal lines across its containing block. It ships as a TypeScript registry component with configurable direction and spacing, uses Tailwind utility classes for absolute positioning and stroke styling, and imports a shadcn-style cn helper backed by clsx and tailwind-merge.

Specimen
Harness screenshot of magicui-striped-pattern at 375 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 375 pixels wide. This viewport scrolled sideways.
Harness screenshot of magicui-striped-pattern at 768 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 768 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of magicui-striped-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-striped-pattern
BuildOK
MountOK
Console errors0
Uncaught page errors0
Horizontal overflowflagged at 375
Axe critical0
Axe serious0
Axe moderate0
Axe minor0
Gzip marginal29.9 KB (95.4 KB build, 65.5 KB baseline)
Bare modeFAIL
Provider requiredNO
Demo usedwritten from the component source API

What the harness recorded

BARE BUILD

✗ Build failed in 1.23s
error during build:
[vite:load-fallback] Could not load <sandbox>re-bf3130563e30/src/lib/utils (imported by src/cut/components/magicui/striped-pattern.tsx): ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '<sandbox>re-bf3130563e30/src/lib/utils'

Verdict

A focused, accessible decorative primitive that builds and mounts cleanly in its intended stack. It needs a shadcn-style setup because the bare project cannot resolve its cn utility import. Use it when a subtle static texture is enough, but make the host responsive.

Use it if

  • You need a restrained striped texture behind cards, hero copy, or empty states.
  • Your container already provides relative positioning, clipping, and a deliberate text color for the SVG stroke.
  • You want stripe direction and spacing to remain adjustable through ordinary SVG props.

Skip it if

  • Your project does not use Tailwind and you do not want to translate the positioning and stroke utilities.
  • You need a background that participates in layout rather than an absolutely positioned decorative layer.
  • Your design uses fixed-width hosts on narrow screens, since the demonstrated container can overflow there.
  • You need animation, gradients, or richer texture behavior beyond static diagonal lines.

Install

Installation record for magicui-striped-pattern
Declared dependenciesclsx, tailwind-merge
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 clsx and tailwind-merge, create a cn helper, configure the at-sign source alias, and ensure Tailwind processes the component. Place it inside a relatively positioned, clipped container, or replace the utility classes with equivalent CSS.

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
2026-08-17

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.