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priyamwada15/sunlight-effect

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TLDR

A copy-paste React component that renders soft, drifting sunlight beams over a light background using pure CSS.

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    What it does
      Drifting light rays
      Pure CSS animation
    Tech stack
      React
      TypeScript
      CSS
    Use cases
      Portfolio decoration
      Landing page visuals
    Audience
      Frontend developers
      Designers

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Copy the component into a portfolio or landing page for a subtle animated light effect.

USE CASE 2

Learn how to build a drifting light animation using only CSS gradients and keyframes.

USE CASE 3

Adapt the ray count, color, or breakpoint to fit a different design.

What is it built with?

ReactTypeScriptCSSNext.js

How does it compare?

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

No package to install, copy the component file and matching CSS rules directly into your project.

No license file is mentioned in the README, so terms of reuse are unclear.

In plain English

sunlight-effect is a small React component that adds a decorative visual to a webpage: soft, gently drifting beams of light rendered over a light background, inspired by an art piece called Sunlight by designer Chloe Yan. The effect is built entirely with CSS, using gradients for the light color, blur for the softness, and a single animation rule (@keyframes) that makes each ray drift at a slightly different distance using a CSS variable. This means no external animation library is needed. Two accessibility considerations are built in: the rays hide automatically on screens narrower than a medium breakpoint of 768 pixels wide so they do not clutter small displays, and the animation is suppressed for users who have enabled the prefers-reduced-motion setting in their operating system. To use it in your own project, you copy one TypeScript component file and some CSS rules into your codebase, then place the component inside any positioned HTML element over a light background. There is no npm package to install, it is meant to be copied and adapted directly. The repository is kept separate from the author's personal portfolio site so it can be forked or cloned without affecting anything else. It runs as a standalone Next.js app for local preview using npm, and the component itself is written in TypeScript with React. The README is short and does not describe any features beyond the visual effect itself.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Explain how the --ray-dist CSS variable controls each ray's drift distance.
Prompt 2
Walk me through copying SunlightEffect.tsx into my own Next.js project.
Prompt 3
Help me adjust the effect so rays also appear on mobile screens.
Prompt 4
Show me how prefers-reduced-motion is respected in this component's CSS.

Frequently asked questions

What is sunlight-effect?

A copy-paste React component that renders soft, drifting sunlight beams over a light background using pure CSS.

What language is sunlight-effect written in?

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

What license does sunlight-effect use?

No license file is mentioned in the README, so terms of reuse are unclear.

How hard is sunlight-effect to set up?

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

Who is sunlight-effect for?

Mainly developer.

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