Mantine Border Animate Component

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Overview

This component is created on top of the Mantine library. It requires Mantine 9.x and React 19.

Mantine BorderAnimate provides a flexible wrapper that turns any Mantine or plain React element into a visually striking component with animated borders. Designed for both aesthetics and performance, it uses CSS animations to deliver smooth 60fps effects and exposes controls to tailor the look and behavior: you can show/hide the border, keep it static or continuously animated, and adjust parameters like size, radius, border width, blur, duration, and color transitions.

The component includes five distinct variants — beam (a traveling glow along the perimeter, with three rendering modes), glow (a rhythmic pulsation with tunable blur and opacity), pulse (a subtle expand-and-fade "breathing" effect), draw (a border that measures a value) and dash (a dashed border that marches around the perimeter).

Key features include:

• Three beam rendering modes — dot (a radial-gradient dot traveling along the border via CSS offset-path, uniform at every position), wedge (a rotating conic-gradient with a spread you set in degrees) and comet (a head with a fading tail, at constant speed on any shape)
• A border that measures — variant="draw" with progress (0-100) draws exactly that share of the real perimeter, corners included, with an optional track underneath
• Dashed borders — variant="dash" with dashSize, dashGap, count and dashCap: marching ants, dots, or a fixed number of evenly spaced segments
• Triggers — trigger starts the animation on hover, on focus-within, or only while the component is inView
• Detached rings — offset pushes the border away from the content and keeps it concentric
• Custom color stops — multi-color gradients via colorStops
• Pause on hover — pauseOnHover prop to pause animations during user interaction
• Custom timing functions — timingFunction prop for full control over animation easing
• Accessible — honors prefers-reduced-motion through the Mantine theme, and marks the decorative ring aria-hidden

Advanced visual setups are supported through masking and layering: withMask clips the effect to the border area, while disabling it and using zIndex allows soft background glows behind content. Integration is straightforward via provided stylesheet imports, and examples demonstrate wrapping common Mantine components like Paper, Cards, Buttons, Inputs, and Alerts.

[!note]

→ Demo and Documentation → Youtube Video → More Mantine Components

[!important]

Coming from v2? Version 3 renames four props — angle → progress (0-100 instead of 0-360), delay → phase, size → spread for the rotating wedge, and the beam modes path / conic → dot / wedge — and fixes how the glow and pulse variants render, which changes some pixels. Passing a v2 prop logs a one-time warning in development.

→ Upgrade guide

Installation

npm install @gfazioli/mantine-border-animate

or

yarn add @gfazioli/mantine-border-animate

After installation import package styles at the root of your application:

import '@gfazioli/mantine-border-animate/styles.css';

Usage

import { Stack, Title } from '@mantine/core';
import { BorderAnimate } from '@gfazioli/mantine-border-animate';

function Demo() {
  return (
    <BorderAnimate w={300} p={32}>
      <Stack>
        <Title>This is a title</Title>
        <p>This is a paragraph inside the BorderAnimate component.</p>
      </Stack>
    </BorderAnimate>
  );
}

A border that measures a value, with the rest of the perimeter as a track:

<BorderAnimate variant="draw" progress={65} withTrack colorFrom="blue.5" colorTo="cyan.4">
  <Paper radius="md" p="md">
    Uploading assets…
  </Paper>
</BorderAnimate>

A border that waits for the interaction instead of looping. On a form field focus-within follows the focus of the control inside it, so there is no state to wire up:

<BorderAnimate variant="draw" trigger="focus-within" radius="sm">
  <TextInput label="Email" placeholder="[email protected]" />
</BorderAnimate>

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