Aurora Background

A subtle Aurora or Southern Lights background for your website.

Background lights are cool you know.

And this, is chemical burn.

Installation

Run the following command

npx shadcn@latest add @aceternity/aurora-background

Add animations for Tailwind CSS

globals.css

@import "tailwindcss";
 
@theme inline {
  --animate-aurora: aurora 60s linear infinite;
  @keyframes aurora {
    from {
      background-position:
        50% 50%,
        50% 50%;
    }
    to {
      background-position:
        350% 50%,
        350% 50%;
    }
  }
}

Props

Prop	Type	Default	Description
children	ReactNode	N/A	The content to be displayed within the AuroraBackground component.
className	string	N/A	Additional CSS classes to apply to the component for styling.
showRadialGradient	boolean	true	Determines whether a radial gradient effect is applied to the background.
...props	object	N/A	Any other props that should be passed to the div element of the component.

This component is ideated and initialized by Akshith Pottigari

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