Empty Projects, animated React component

An empty projects screen with three starter templates in a loose stack that fans out when you point at it. Picking a template flies that exact card into the grid as your first project.

Pro
Cards
Hover
Spring

Taps when you pick a template or start over and lands the new project card with a soft drop; the fan-out on hover is silent. Sound is off on this site until you switch it on.

Play with it

Move the controls and watch it change. Copy code gives you a snippet with only the props you changed.

Projects

No projects yet

Pick a starting point. You can change everything later.

Props

Prop	Type	Default	What it does
templates	EmptyProjectsTemplate[]	EMPTY_PROJECTS_TEMPLATES	The starter templates in the stack, each { id, name, tint: [background, accent] }. The ids landing, dashboard and docs draw their own little page; three works best.
title	string	"Projects"	Heading above the grid.
emptyTitle	string	"No projects yet"	Headline of the empty state.
emptyDescription	string	"Pick a starting point. You can change everything later."	Line under the headline.
onCreate	(template: EmptyProjectsTemplate) => void	undefined	Called when a template, or the blank project, is picked. The autoplay demo never calls it.
autoplay	boolean	false	Fans the stack, picks a template and starts over on a loop until someone touches it. Pauses off screen and never runs under reduced motion.
className	string	""	Extra classes for the card.
enableSound	boolean	true	Plays interface sounds on interaction. They follow the sound switch (setSoundsEnabled, on by default) and stay silent on hover. Autoplay makes the same sounds once the visitor has used the page. Pass false to silence this component.

Add it to your project

Prepare your project

You need Tailwind CSS and the @/import alias. If shadcn isn't set up yet, initialise it once:

npx shadcn@latest init

Then add the Nexus registry to your components.json (the registries key is the part that matters):

{
  "$schema": "https://ui.shadcn.com/schema.json",
  "style": "default",
  "rsc": true,
  "tsx": true,
  "tailwind": {
    "css": "src/app/globals.css",
    "baseColor": "neutral",
    "cssVariables": true,
    "prefix": ""
  },
  "aliases": {
    "components": "@/components",
    "utils": "@/lib/utils",
    "ui": "@/components/ui",
    "lib": "@/lib",
    "hooks": "@/hooks"
  },
  "registries": {
    "@nexus-labs": "https://www.nexus-ui.com/api/registry/{name}"
  }
}

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Add the component
Run this from your project root. It adds the component, the utilities it uses and its packages.
```
npx shadcn@latest add @nexus-labs/empty-projects
```
3
Check what was added
With the standard aliases, these files land in your project:
components/
empty-projects/
empty-projects.tsx
index.ts
4
Copying by hand? Install the packages
Skip this if you used the command above.
```
npm install framer-motion
```

Use it in a page

Import it and render it. The Code tab above has the full example.

// app/page.tsx
import { EmptyProjects } from "@/components/empty-projects";

export default function Page() {
  return (
    <main>
      <EmptyProjects />
    </main>
  );
}

Empty Projects questions

Does it make sound, and how do I turn it off?

Taps when you pick a template or start over and lands the new project card with a soft drop; the fan-out on hover is silent. Sounds are synthesised with the Web Audio API, so there are no audio files, and they only play after a click or key press. Pass `enableSound={false}` to silence this component, or call `setSoundsEnabled(false)` from `@/lib/ui-sounds` to switch every sound off at once. The CLI installs `@/lib/ui-sounds` with the component.

Pro
NewSound
No Results
Pro
NewSound
Empty Team
Pro
New
Skeleton Morph
Pro
NewSound
Morphing Dialog