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react-mouse-trails
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react-mouse-trails
A lightweight WebGL-based React component for creating a mouse trail effect.
React Mouse Trail 
A lightweight WebGL-based React component for creating an interactive mouse trail effect. Works with Next.js out of the box.
✅ Fully TypeScript
✅ Leverages the power of React 18 Server components
✅ Compatible with all React build systems/tools/frameworks
✅ Documented with Typedoc (Docs)
✅ Examples for Next.js, Vite
Getting Started
Installation
$ pnpm add react-mouse-trails
or
$ npm install react-mouse-trails
or
$ yarn add react-mouse-trails
Adding CSS
You can import CSS in your global styles or from your component. In the case of Next.js, you can import global styles only in layout or _app components.
In your stylesheet
@import "react-mouse-trails/dist";
or in your component
import "react-mouse-trail/dist/index.css";
Here's a revised version of the usage section:
Usage
MouseTrail is simple to integrate:
import { MouseTrail } from "react-mouse-trail";
export default function Layout() {
return (
<html lang="en" suppressHydrationWarning>
<body className={inter.className}>
{/* ... */}
<MouseTrail rgb={[1, 0, 0]} />
</body>
</html>
);
}
By default, the RGB value [1, 0, 0] represents the color red.
License
This library is licensed under the MPL-2.0 open-source license.
with 💖 by Mayank Kumar Chaudhari
FAQs
A lightweight WebGL-based React component for creating a mouse trail effect.
The npm package react-mouse-trails receives a total of 1,455 weekly downloads. As such, react-mouse-trails popularity was classified as popular.
We found that react-mouse-trails demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 26 Jun 2024
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