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magicui-terminal

cardskeuomorphism

An animated terminal card with typed text, staged lines, optional sequencing, and viewport-triggered playback. It ships as a client-side TypeScript component through a shadcn registry and relies on React, Motion, Tailwind utility classes, and a local cn helper backed by clsx and tailwind-merge.

Specimen
Harness screenshot of magicui-terminal at 375 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 375 pixels wide. This viewport scrolled sideways.
Harness screenshot of magicui-terminal at 768 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 768 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of magicui-terminal 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-terminal
BuildOK
MountOK
Console errors0
Uncaught page errors0
Horizontal overflowflagged at 375
Axe critical0
Axe serious0
Axe moderate0
Axe minor0
Gzip marginal70.9 KB (136.4 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 596ms
error during build:
[vite]: Rollup failed to resolve import "motion/react" from "<sandbox>re-dee5532dadf0/src/cut/terminal.tsx".

Verdict

A solid fit for animated command demos: it builds, mounts, and passes the automated accessibility check in the prepared harness. The narrow layout needs attention, and it needs a shadcn-style setup because the bare project cannot resolve Motion and does not mount.

Use it if

  • You need a terminal-style product demo with typing and line-by-line reveals.
  • Your app already uses Tailwind, a cn utility, and Motion for React.
  • You want animation to start when the terminal enters the viewport.

Skip it if

  • Your interface must fit narrow mobile screens without adapting the card or its content.
  • You want a static terminal with little client-side JavaScript or no animation dependency.
  • Your project does not use Tailwind and you do not want to translate utility classes and theme tokens.

Install

Installation record for magicui-terminal
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 Motion for React, Tailwind, clsx, and tailwind-merge; provide the cn helper and theme tokens used by the classes; configure the source alias or replace that import with a relative path. Review the container and code overflow behavior for narrow screens.

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