# Updated: Web Threads

By Steven Van · 2026-10-13

The React Bits background gains braids, a 3D twist and click-driven light, plus more threads and colors and a cleaner light mode.

Web Threads, the glowing-threads background in [React Bits](<https://creatorstoolbox.com/resources/react-bits>), has been [updated](<https://reactbits.dev/backgrounds/web-threads>) with new motion, cursor and click behaviour.

## Motion and interaction

- Threads now draw in one after another.

- The strand under the cursor lights up while the rest recede.

- Clicks send light into the pinch.

## New options

The update adds braids, a 3D twist, traveling pulses, rotation and soft ends. It also allows more threads and colors, and includes a cleaner light mode.

## Install

The component can be added in JavaScript or TypeScript, with plain CSS or Tailwind. The TypeScript and Tailwind version installs with npx shadcn@latest add @react-bits/WebThreads-TS-TW.

![React Bits](<https://reactbits.dev/favicon.ico>)

React Bits

An open-source collection of 200+ animated, interactive React components and micro-interactions.

[View React Bits →](<https://creatorstoolbox.com/resources/react-bits>)

Sources

[Original source](<https://reactbits.dev/backgrounds/web-threads>)

[Read Updated: Web Threads on Creators Toolbox](<https://creatorstoolbox.com/blog/react-bits-updated-web-threads>)

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Canonical source: https://creatorstoolbox.com/blog/react-bits-updated-web-threads