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magicuidesign/magicui
UI Library for Design Engineers. Animated components and effects you can copy and paste into your apps. Free. Open Source.
Magic UI is a collection of animated React components built on Framer Motion, Tailwind CSS, and shadcn/ui — designed for building marketing and landing pages. Like shadcn/ui, you copy the source into your project rather than installing a package. Aimed at frontend developers who want polished motion effects without writing the animation logic themselves.
The copy-paste model means you own the code immediately — no version lock-in, no fighting a library's opinions when you need to deviate. The component catalog covers the full landing page toolkit: animated beams, bento grids, marquees, orbiting circles, globes — things that take real effort to get right in Framer Motion. It builds cleanly on the shadcn/ui pattern, so if your project already uses that setup you can drop components in without friction. Maintenance looks active — the commit history is steady and the component list has grown substantially.
Almost entirely decorative — this is a landing page kit, not a UI library. If you need functional components (date pickers, data tables, command palettes) you're still on your own. The Framer Motion dependency is non-trivial bundle weight; using three sparkle effects from this library still ships the whole animation runtime. The copy-paste model that makes it flexible also means bug fixes don't propagate — once you paste, that code is yours to maintain forever. The repo is also cluttered with hundreds of SEO-bait blog posts (tailwind-vs-bootstrap.mdx, how-to-install-tailwind-css.mdx, etc.) that have nothing to do with the library, which says something about where the project's energy is going.