Polaroid Develop, animated React component

An instant photo you develop by dragging and shaking it: the faster it moves, the quicker the grey haze clears and the colour comes through. It swings with the drag velocity, develops slowly on its own, and writes a handwritten caption once it is done.

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Play with it

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

Grab it and shake.

Props

Prop	Type	Default	What it does
src	string	—	Photo to develop. Without it the drawn scenes are shown.
alt	string	""	Alt text for src.
caption	string	—	Handwritten caption for src once developed. Drawn scenes carry their own.
scenes	PolaroidScene[]	DEFAULT_POLAROID_SCENES	Drawn scenes cycled by New photo, each { sky, sea, sun, land, caption }.
onDeveloped	(caption: string) => void	—	Called when the photo finishes developing, with its caption (or alt).
autoplay	boolean	false	Shakes the photo by itself and swaps to a new one until someone touches it.
className	string	—	Extra classes for the root.

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/polaroid-develop
```
3
Check what was added
With the standard aliases, these files land in your project:
components/
polaroid-develop/
index.ts
polaroid-develop.tsx
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 { PolaroidDevelop } from "@/components/polaroid-develop";

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

Polaroid Develop, animated React component

Play with it

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