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davidhdev/react-bits

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38,896JavaScriptAudience · developerComplexity · 2/5Setup · easy

TLDR

React Bits is a collection of 110+ animated and interactive React components, text effects, UI elements, and animated backgrounds, ready to copy into your project with one CLI command.

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  root((react-bits))
    What it does
      UI components
      Text animations
      Animated backgrounds
      Visual tools
    Tech Stack
      React
      JavaScript
      TypeScript
      Tailwind CSS
    Use Cases
      Landing pages
      Portfolios
      Marketing sites
    Installation
      shadcn CLI
      jsrepo tool
      Tree-shakeable
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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Add polished text animations or animated backgrounds to a landing page without writing custom CSS or JavaScript.

USE CASE 2

Drop ready-made animated UI components into a React portfolio or marketing site.

USE CASE 3

Quickly prototype a visually rich web app by combining React Bits components with your existing Tailwind setup.

What is it built with?

JavaScriptTypeScriptReactCSSTailwind CSS

How does it compare?

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Stars38,89638,88338,590
LanguageJavaScriptJavaScriptJavaScript
Setup difficultyeasyeasymoderate
Complexity2/52/52/5
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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

In plain English

React Bits is an open-source collection of animated, interactive, and customizable React components designed to help developers build visually striking websites without spending hours building animations from scratch. The library includes over 110 components covering text animations, UI elements, and animated backgrounds, and the collection grows regularly. The goal is to let you grab a polished, ready-made component and drop it into your project, then customize it to fit your design. The components are built using standard React patterns and are designed to be lightweight and tree-shakeable, meaning your app only bundles the code it actually uses. Each component comes in four variants, JavaScript with plain CSS, JavaScript with Tailwind, TypeScript with plain CSS, and TypeScript with Tailwind, so you can pick the combination that matches your project's setup. Installation is handled via the shadcn CLI or jsrepo, which lets you add individual components with a single command. Beyond components, the project also offers creative browser-based tools for generating animated backgrounds, creating rounded corner shapes between elements, and applying visual effects to images and videos. You would use React Bits when building a landing page, portfolio, marketing site, or any web application where you want animated or visually rich UI elements without writing complex CSS or JavaScript animations yourself. It is especially useful if you are working with React and want copy-paste-ready components that are customizable at the props level or directly in the source. The tech stack is JavaScript and TypeScript, using React as the UI framework, with CSS and Tailwind CSS as styling options.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Show me how to install a React Bits animated text component using the shadcn CLI and customize its animation speed and color.
Prompt 2
Which React Bits components work best for a landing page hero section, and how do I add them to a Next.js project?
Prompt 3
How do I use the React Bits background generator tool to create a custom animated background and export the component code?
Prompt 4
Adapt this React Bits TypeScript component to accept my existing Tailwind color tokens instead of the default values.

Frequently asked questions

What is react-bits?

React Bits is a collection of 110+ animated and interactive React components, text effects, UI elements, and animated backgrounds, ready to copy into your project with one CLI command.

What language is react-bits written in?

Mainly JavaScript. The stack also includes JavaScript, TypeScript, React.

How hard is react-bits to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is react-bits for?

Mainly developer.

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