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react-bits
Animated React component library installed through the shadcn CLI
- Stars
- 51.7k
- License
- custom license
- Last commit
- Nov 2026
- Language
- JavaScript
38,014 on 21 Apr 202651,704 on 10 Nov 2026
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Overview
React Bits is a collection of 215+ animated React components: text effects, cursor and hover animations, cards and galleries, micro-interactions, and 63 shader and particle backgrounds. Each comes in JS or TS, with CSS or Tailwind, and installs through the shadcn CLI or jsrepo, or by copying files. A shadcn registry entry lets coding agents such as Claude Code or Cursor add components through MCP.
Who it is for: Frontend developers adding animated UI effects to React sites
Strengths
- Four variants per component: JS or TS, CSS or Tailwind
- Installs per component with one shadcn or jsrepo command, no package dependency
- Live demos with controls, plus browser tools for exporting backgrounds as code, image or video
- Works with the shadcn MCP server so agents can find and add components
Weaknesses
- License is MIT + Commons Clause, which restricts selling the software; not OSI open source
- Not an AI project: a UI library with only an agent-install path
- Pages, templates and agent skills are in the paid Pro tier
- Heavy shader and particle backgrounds can cost performance; README gives no benchmarks
What it needs
- JavaScript
- Needs React, shadcn CLI or jsrepo
Quick answers
Is react-bits open source?
Its code is public on GitHub under its own license terms; read them before you use it at work.
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