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magicui-text-animate

text-effectdark-futuristicmotion on file

A client-side React text animator distributed as a shadcn registry component. It splits a plain string by text, word, character, or line and applies preset or custom Motion variants. It depends on Motion, Tailwind utility classes, and a shadcn-style cn helper backed by clsx and tailwind-merge.

Specimen
Motion capture of the mounted demo, recorded by the harness. No audio track.
Harness screenshot of magicui-text-animate at 375 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 375 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of magicui-text-animate at 768 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 768 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of magicui-text-animate 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-text-animate
BuildOK
MountOK
Console errors0
Uncaught page errors0
Horizontal overflowclean at 375, 768, 1440
Axe critical0
Axe serious0
Axe moderate0
Axe minor0
Gzip marginal71.9 KB (137.4 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 933ms
error during build:
[vite:load-fallback] Could not load <sandbox>re-d81c04d28b7a/src/lib/utils (imported by src/cut/text-animate.tsx): ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '<sandbox>re-d81c04d28b7a/src/lib/utils'

Verdict

A flexible, credible choice for animated display copy in an existing Motion and Tailwind stack. It built and rendered cleanly in the configured harness, but it needs a shadcn-style setup and does not work as an untouched drop-in for a bare React project.

Use it if

  • You need staggered entrance and exit effects for headings, labels, or short blocks of plain text.
  • Your React project already uses Motion and Tailwind, and you want control over segmentation, viewport triggering, semantic elements, and custom variants.
  • You want animated segments while exposing one coherent text label to assistive technology.

Skip it if

  • The content includes links, emphasis, icons, or other rich children, because this component accepts only a plain string.
  • You need reduced-motion behavior to be enforced by the component itself without adding your own preference handling.
  • You do not otherwise use Motion and cannot justify adding it for a small text treatment.

Install

Installation record for magicui-text-animate
Declared dependenciesmotion, clsx, 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, install Motion, clsx, and tailwind-merge; add a cn utility under the expected lib path or change the import; configure the matching path alias; and ensure Tailwind processes the component so its layout and accessibility utility classes are emitted. Add your own reduced-motion policy if required.

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