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Text Shimmer

A moving highlight sweeps across text characters, often used on loading screens or to draw attention to headings.

Text Shimmer is a real, MIT-licensed React + Tailwind UI component from the open-source Motion Primitives library. Run the install command above with the shadcn CLI and it drops the component's actual source straight into your project.

It depends on motion, so make sure those are installed too.

The code you install is the component's own source — once it's in your repo, it's yours to restyle.

CategoryComponents
LibraryMotion Primitives
Dependenciesmotion
npx shadcn@latest add "https://motion-primitives.com/c/text-shimmer.json"

How to use it

  1. Run the install command above — the shadcn CLI drops the real component files into your project.
  2. Install the dependencies listed below it, if any.
  3. Import the component and restyle it with your own Tailwind tokens.
Compiled and written by VintuxAI from public sources.

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