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Components/loomui/aurora-backdrop

Aurora Backdrop

loomui/aurora-backdrop
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A wash of blurred colour that drifts behind content on cycles that never line up.

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Install it

npx shadcn@latest add https://loomui.design/r/aurora-backdrop.json

Source

registry/loomui/aurora-backdrop.tsxloomui.design/r/aurora-backdrop.json
1"use client"
2
3import * as React from "react"
4
5import { cn } from "@/lib/utils"
6import { useInViewport } from "@/registry/lib/use-in-viewport"
7
8export interface AuroraBackdropProps extends React.ComponentProps<"div"> {
9 /** Colours of the drifting blobs. One blob is drawn per colour. */
10 colors?: string[]
11 /** Blur applied to the whole wash, as a CSS length. */
12 blur?: string
13 /** Seconds for one full drift of a single blob. */
14 duration?: number
15 /** Opacity of the layer, from `0` to `1`. */
16 intensity?: number
17 /** Changes where the blobs sit. Same seed, same layout, every render. */
18 seed?: number
19 /** Render the wash static. */
20 disabled?: boolean
21}
22
23const DEFAULT_COLORS = ["#2dd4bf", "#38bdf8", "#3b82f6", "#a78bfa"]
24
25/** Mulberry32. Deterministic so the server and the client agree. */
26function createRandom(seed: number) {
27 let state = seed >>> 0
28 return () => {
29 state = (state + 0x6d2b79f5) >>> 0
30 let t = state
31 t = Math.imul(t ^ (t >>> 15), t | 1)
32 t ^= t + Math.imul(t ^ (t >>> 7), t | 61)
33 return ((t ^ (t >>> 14)) >>> 0) / 4294967296
34 }
35}
36
37export function AuroraBackdrop({
38 colors = DEFAULT_COLORS,
39 blur = "72px",
40 duration = 18,
41 intensity = 0.5,
42 seed = 1,
43 disabled = false,
44 className,
45 style,
46 ...props
47}: AuroraBackdropProps) {
48 const blobs = React.useMemo(() => {
49 const palette = colors.length > 0 ? colors : DEFAULT_COLORS
50 const random = createRandom(seed)
51
52 return palette.map((color, index) => ({
53 key: index,
54 color,
55 // Well under the container, so the drift is a blob crossing the frame
56 // rather than a full-bleed wash shifting a few percent.
57 size: 38 + random() * 32,
58 x: random() * 100,
59 y: random() * 100,
60 // Every blob runs the same keyframes at a different length and phase.
61 // Cycles that never line up are what stops the wash reading as a loop.
62 duration: duration * (0.75 + random() * 0.6),
63 delay: -random() * duration,
64 }))
65 }, [colors, seed, duration])
66
67 const root = React.useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null)
68 // Large blurred gradients are the most expensive thing here to keep drifting
69 // for a viewport nobody is looking at.
70 const onScreen = useInViewport(root)
71
72 return (
73 <div
74 ref={root}
75 data-slot="aurora-backdrop"
76 aria-hidden="true"
77 className={cn(
78 "pointer-events-none absolute inset-0 overflow-hidden",
79 className
80 )}
81 style={{ opacity: intensity, ...style }}
82 {...props}
83// … truncated

What it pulls in

Other registry items

  • utils
  • use-in-viewport

Files it writes

  • registry/loomui/aurora-backdrop.tsx

Facts

Registry
loomui
Type
registry:ui
Access
Free
Files written
1
Theme wiring
ships cssVars
Licence
MIT
In the index
at or before 2026-08-20
Last confirmed
yesterday

Go to the source

Docs on loomui loomui.design rjcuff/Loom-UI on GitHub Raw registry item This item as JSON

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