Typewriter
Typewriter is a React and Tailwind CSS text component from Cult UI, licensed MIT. Copy it and paste it into your project.
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What it is
Typewriter is a React and Tailwind CSS text component from Cult UI, licensed MIT. Copy it and paste it into your project.
How to use it
Open it in the catalogue, press copy, and paste it into your project. The prompt you copy carries the code and the rules that tell your agent to reproduce it without changing anything.
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Needs
npm i motion
Licence
This component comes from Cult UI and is redistributed under the MIT licence, which permits commercial use. The copyright notice travels with the code.
Typewriter
"use client"
import { useEffect, useState } from "react"
import { animate, motion, useMotionValue, useTransform } from "motion/react"
export interface ITypewriterProps {
delay: number
texts: string[]
baseText?: string
}
export function Typewriter({ delay, texts, baseText = "" }: ITypewriterProps) {
const [animationComplete, setAnimationComplete] = useState(false)
const count = useMotionValue(0)
const rounded = useTransform(count, (latest) => Math.round(latest))
const displayText = useTransform(rounded, (latest) =>
baseText.slice(0, latest)
)
useEffect(() => {
const controls = animate(count, baseText.length, {
type: "tween",
delay,
duration: 1,
ease: [0.42, 0, 0.58, 1] as const,
onComplete: () => setAnimationComplete(true),
})
return () => {
controls.stop && controls.stop()
}
}, [count, baseText.length, delay])
return (
<span>
<motion.span>{displayText}</motion.span>
{animationComplete && (
<RepeatedTextAnimation texts={texts} delay={delay + 1} />
)}
<BlinkingCursor />
</span>
)
}
export interface IRepeatedTextAnimationProps {
delay: number
texts: string[]
}
const defaultTexts = [
"quiz page with questions and answers",
"blog Article Details Page Layout",
"ecommerce dashboard with a sidebar",
"ui like platform.openai.com....",
"buttttton",
"aop that tracks non-standard split sleep cycles",
"transparent card to showcase achievements of a user",
]
function RepeatedTextAnimation({
delay,
texts = defaultTexts,
}: IRepeatedTextAnimationProps) {
const textIndex = useMotionValue(0)
const baseText = useTransform(textIndex, (latest) => texts[latest] || "")
const count = useMotionValue(0)
const rounded = useTransform(count, (latest) => Math.round(latest))
const displayText = useTransform(rounded, (latest) =>
baseText.get().slice(0, latest)
)
const updatedThisRound = useMotionValue(true)
useEffect(() => {
const animation = animate(count, 60, {
type: "tween",
delay,
duration: 1,
ease: [0.42, 0, 1, 1] as const,
repeat: Infinity,
repeatType: "reverse",
repeatDelay: 1,
onUpdate(latest) {
if (updatedThisRound.get() && latest > 0) {
updatedThisRound.set(false)
} else if (!updatedThisRound.get() && latest === 0) {
textIndex.set((textIndex.get() + 1) % texts.length)
updatedThisRound.set(true)
}
},
})
return () => {
animation.stop && animation.stop()
}
}, [count, delay, textIndex, texts, updatedThisRound])
return <motion.span className="inline">{displayText}</motion.span>
}
const cursorVariants = {
blinking: {
opacity: [0, 0, 1, 1],
transition: {
duration: 1,
repeat: Infinity,
repeatDelay: 0,
ease: [0, 0, 1, 1] as const,
times: [0, 0.5, 0.5, 1],
},
},
}
function BlinkingCursor() {
return (
<motion.div
variants={cursorVariants}
animate="blinking"
className="inline-block h-5 w-[1px] translate-y-1 bg-neutral-900"
/>
)
}