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Border Beam

Animated border beam component for buttons, cards, and input fields

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Border Beam is a ready-to-use UI component library that adds animated light streaks traveling along component borders. Created by Jakub Antalik, it supports multiple beam styles and color variations with both light and dark mode integration.

What it's for

  • Add animated glowing borders to AI search inputs or prompt bars
  • Highlight featured pricing cards with a continuous border beam effect
  • Style primary call-to-action buttons with animated gradient borders

Features

  • Available as an npm package under border-beam
  • Three distinct beam animation types
  • Four preset color variations
  • Built-in light and dark mode support
  • Drop-in compatibility with cards, buttons, search bars, and pills

Pricing

Free to install via npm

Details

Type
Web app
Category
Development
Topic
UI Components
Open source
Yes
Platforms
Code library
For
Frontend developers and UI designers looking for modern glowing border effects
Alternative to
Magic UI Border Beam, Aceternity UI
Tags
react, ui components, css animation, tailwind, frontend, npm

Why it was saved

  • @Jakubantalik, 15 April 2026: Drop-in component that adds a moving, iridescent light streak around the border of cards, buttons, inputs and pills — a popular 'AI product' look, available in 3 beam types, 4 color variations, dark and light mode.

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