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Progress bars in braille characters, eight steps per cell, as real text that fits terminals, logs and chat. Labels, percent, unknown length and a done state.
Built with React and Tailwind. Copy the prompt and paste it into Claude Code, Cursor or Lovable: your agent adds Braille Progress to your project and fits it to your theme.
Code
How Braille Progress is used: the demo's code. The component's own source comes with a free account.
Usage.tsx
"use client"
import * as React from "react"
import { BrailleProgress } from "@/components/ui/braille-progress"
const FIT_CSS = "html,body{overflow:hidden}[data-fit-small] [data-fit-hide]{display:none!important}"
/**
* 21st shows a demo in a small frame: about 674 by 421 on a component page, 358 by 224 on a
* phone and 245 by 139 on a profile card. A demo taller than its frame gets scrollbars, which
* render white on dark pages. FitFrame fills the frame exactly instead.
*
* - "scale": the content shrinks until it fits, centered. For visuals such as orbs.
* - "crop": the content stays at full size from the top and fades out at the bottom. For text
* that streams in, where a changing scale would make the page breathe.
*
* `minWidth` lays out a wide demo (a table, a two column panel) at that width and scales it down
* to the frame, instead of letting it collapse to a narrow layout. The frame centers it, so it
* shrinks evenly on both sides.
*
* Anything marked `data-fit-hide` (state buttons, the chatcn.dev line) drops out in frames
* shorter than `hideBelow`, so a profile card shows the visual alone.
*/
function FitFrame({
children,
mode = "scale",
hideBelow = 360,
minWidth,
}: {
children: React.ReactNode
mode?: "scale" | "crop"
hideBelow?: number
minWidth?: string
}) {
const content = React.useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null)
const [cropped, setCropped] = React.useState(false)
React.useLayoutEffect(() => {
const el = content.current
if (!el) return
const measure = () => {
const vw = window.innerWidth
const vh = window.innerHeight
el.toggleAttribute("data-fit-small", vh < hideBelow)
// Layout sizes ignore the transform, so measuring never feeds back.
const w = Math.max(el.offsetWidth, el.scrollWidth)
const h = Math.max(el.offsetHeight, el.scrollHeight)
const scale = mode === "scale" ? Math.min(1, vw / w, vh / h) : 1
el.style.transform = scale < 1 ? `scale(${scale})` : ""
setCropped(mode === "crop" && h > vh + 1)
}
measure()
const observer = new ResizeObserver(measure)
observer.observe(el)
window.addEventListener("resize", measure)
return () => {
observer.disconnect()
window.removeEventListener("resize", measure)
}
}, [mode, hideBelow])
const fade = "linear-gradient(to bottom, #000 calc(100% - 40px), transparent)"
return (
<div
className="flex w-full justify-center overflow-hidden"
style={{
height: "100dvh",
alignItems: mode === "crop" ? "flex-start" : "center",
maskImage: cropped ? fade : undefined,
WebkitMaskImage: cropped ? fade : undefined,
}}
>
<style>{FIT_CSS}</style>
<div
ref={content}
className="w-full shrink-0"
style={{ transformOrigin: mode === "crop" ? "top center" : "center", minWidth }}
>
{children}
</div>
</div>
)
}
const FILES = [
{ name: "unet.safetensors", size: "3.4 GB", rate: 0.9 },
{ name: "text_encoder.safetensors", size: "1.4 GB", rate: 1.5 },
{ name: "vae.safetensors", size: "335 MB", rate: 2.8 },
{ name: "scheduler.json", size: "14 KB", rate: 6 },
{ name: "tokenizer.json", size: "2.1 MB", rate: 9 },
]
/** The line under each 21st demo that points back to the kit. */
function MoreOn({ slug, children }: { slug: string; children: React.ReactNode }) {
return (
<p data-fit-hide className="text-[0.75rem]/[1rem] text-(color:--chatcn-fg-faint) text-center text-balance">
{children}{" "}
<a
href={`https://chatcn.dev/docs/components/${slug}`}
target="_blank"
rel="noopener"
className="text-(color:--chatcn-fg-subtle) hover:text-(color:--chatcn-fg) underline underline-offset-2"
>
chatcn.dev
</a>
</p>
)
}
/**
* Weights downloading in a terminal, each bar moving at eight steps per character, while the
* resolver line runs with no known length. The pull starts over once every file is in.
*/
export default function BrailleProgressPreview() {
const [t, setT] = React.useState(0)
React.useEffect(() => {
if (window.matchMedia("(prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)").matches) {
setT(60)
return
}
const id = window.setInterval(() => setT((v) => (v >= 75 ? 0 : v + 1)), 40)
return () => window.clearInterval(id)
}, [])
const resolved = t > 12
return (
<FitFrame minWidth="44rem">
<div className="flex w-full flex-col items-center justify-center gap-6 p-6">
<div className="bg-(color:--chatcn-inset) rounded-(--chatcn-radius-xl) shadow-(--chatcn-shadow-border) text-[0.8125rem]/[1.25rem] w-full max-w-2xl p-5 font-mono leading-6">
<p className="text-(color:--chatcn-fg-subtle)">$ pull image-model --weights fp16</p>
<div className="mt-2 flex flex-col">
<div className="flex min-w-0 items-baseline gap-[1ch]">
<BrailleProgress
value={resolved ? 100 : undefined}
label={
<span className="inline-block w-[25ch] align-bottom">resolving manifest</span>
}
width={24}
className="min-w-0"
/>
</div>
{FILES.map((f) => (
<div key={f.name} className="flex min-w-0 items-baseline gap-[1ch]">
<BrailleProgress
value={Math.max(0, Math.min(100, (t - 12) * f.rate * 1.9))}
label={
<span className="inline-block w-[25ch] truncate align-bottom">{f.name}</span>
}
width={24}
className="min-w-0"
/>
<span className="text-(color:--chatcn-fg-subtle) ms-auto shrink-0">{f.size}</span>
</div>
))}
</div>
</div>
<MoreOn slug="braille-progress">Real text, eight steps per character. On</MoreOn>
</div>
</FitFrame>
)
}







