Show HN: I reverse engineered top websites to build an animated UI library

Re:Show HN: I reverse engineered top websites to build an an... by vintagedave on Friday April 25, 2025 @09:22AM (#43793315)

This is really impressive. As a portfolio alone, wow -- as a component set, fantastic.

Are these easy to include in Astro? I'd think so (avoiding React etc.) I am currently building with Astro and keeping things as minimal in terms of additional JS files etc as possible.

Couple of notes / questions:

* https://reverseui.com/craft/text-blur-reveal has 'coming soon' from last October, and it's really cool, I'd be tempted to buy it for this alone

* The top of your site has what looks like the dot logo component, but showing numbers and with a Matrix-like effect. Can that be a component too?

* How customisable are these? I saw one comment saying they were not at all and the code was not modifiable. That's a deal-breaker: we all want our own spin on things, not to copy blindly.

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Re:Show HN: I reverse engineered top websites to build an an... by armedin on Friday April 25, 2025 @12:03PM (#43795132)

I'm delighted to hear you like the library! The 'coming soon' components mean they haven't been packaged yet, and specifically the text-blur-reveal is tricky to do. You can, however, access the raw code on GitHub. Essentially you have 2 ways, either via the npm package, or copying the raw code. There are more components coming, one being the Matrix-like effect. I haven't worked with Astro before, so cannot give an input on that.

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