# jstejada/react-typist

Typing animations with React

Repository: https://github.com/jstejada/react-typist
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/react-typist
Homepage: https://jstejada.github.io/react-typist/
Language: JavaScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: typing-animation, typist, react, reactjs, animations, typing
Last push: 2022-12-07T01:03:17+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3987, "days_push": 1366, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1401, forks 120 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:37.332776+00:00)

## What it is
React Typist is a React component library for creating typewriter-style typing animations. It wraps any text or element tree and animates the text inside it with configurable speed, delays, and a blinking cursor.

## Use cases
- add a typewriter effect to a hero heading in React
- animate text being typed character by character in a React app
- create typing animations for landing pages
- cycle through multiple strings with a typing animation
- insert pauses between sentences in a typed animation
- style animated text with custom CSS classes and a blinking cursor

## When to choose
- you are building with React and want a simple, configurable typewriter text animation
- you need to animate arbitrary nested React element trees, not just plain strings
- you want a lightweight component with CSS-based cursor styling

## When to avoid
- you are not using React
- you need actively maintained software with recent updates and guaranteed support
- you need complex animation orchestration beyond typing effects

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: animation, ui-components, frontend-framework
- domain: frontend, web-development, web-design
- platform: browser
- tags: react, typing-animation, typewriter-effect, text-animation, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- jstejada/react-typist (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:37.332776+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:39:03.289488+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jstejada/react-typist (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:37.332776+00:00, sha 43f2561ac847)
  - homepage: https://jstejada.github.io/react-typist/ (fetched 2026-08-29T11:53:14.230368+00:00, sha 8b786728124d)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/react-typist (fetched 2026-08-29T11:53:14.233545+00:00, sha 697e68d37428)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.