Motion Scroll Tracing Beam
Svg line that traces along an article as you scroll.
Choose the primitives library your project already uses. Both look the same: your theme, not the variant, controls colors, shape, type and motion.
About this motion
What it's for
- Svg line that traces along an article as you scroll.
- Tracing beam reading progress along the side of a blog post.
- Scroll progress timeline with nodes for each section heading.
For A thin top-of-page bar is enough, use Motion Scroll Progress.
Includes
- Svg tracing beam
- Scroll progress head
- Fading tail gradient
- Heading nodes
- Nodes light up
- Spring smoothing
- Any article content
- Resize aware
Works with
- Radix UI and Base UI primitives (pick the one your project uses)
- React 19 and Tailwind CSS 4 in Next.js (App Router), Vite, React Router or TanStack Start, installed with the agentic-ui or shadcn CLI
- Your theme tokens, in light and dark mode
Install
Included with Agentic UI Kit (one-time license). Install needs your license key: see pricing · connect your project.
Agentic UI CLI
agentic-ui add motion-scroll-tracing-beamInstalls through shadcn and adapts the component to your design tokens.
shadcn CLI
npx shadcn@4.17.0 add @agentic-ui/motion-scroll-tracing-beamUsed in
A standalone component: drop it into any screen.
- Type
- Motion
- Variants
- Radix UI and Base UI
- Themes
- Light and dark
- Widths
- Preview it at desktop, tablet and mobile widths above.
- Motion
- Animated, with a reduced-motion fallback
- npm packages
motion- Registry dependencies
lib-motion- Files
9 files
- components/agentic-ui/motion-scroll-tracing-beam/motion-scroll-tracing-beam/motion-scroll-tracing-beam.tsx
- components/agentic-ui/motion-scroll-tracing-beam/styles/motion-scroll-tracing-beam.css
- components/agentic-ui/motion-scroll-tracing-beam/motion-scroll-tracing-beam/use-beam-geometry.ts
- components/agentic-ui/motion-scroll-tracing-beam/motion-scroll-tracing-beam/default-article.tsx
- components/agentic-ui/motion-scroll-tracing-beam/motion-scroll-tracing-beam/beam-model.ts
- components/agentic-ui/motion-scroll-tracing-beam/_shared/clamp.ts
- components/agentic-ui/motion-scroll-tracing-beam/_shared/types.ts
- components/agentic-ui/motion-scroll-tracing-beam/_shared/policy-options.ts
- components/agentic-ui/motion-scroll-tracing-beam/_shared/apply-defaults.ts
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