Spinner: HextaUI and shadcn/ui

The HextaUI Spinner keeps the shadcn/ui names and theme tokens and installs with the same CLI. This page lists what differs, read from the source of both. The shadcn/ui side is its base-vega registry as of 2026-10-16.

At a glance

MeasureHextaUIshadcn/ui
Exported parts11
Props the wrapper handles70
Lines of source12522
npm dependenciesclass-variance-authoritycncn
Built fromthemeuse-delayed-loading–

More source is not better on its own. Most of the extra lines in HextaUI handle states, motion and edge cases that you would otherwise write yourself.

Props HextaUI adds

Props the HextaUI wrapper handles itself that the shadcn/ui wrapper does not. Props passed straight through to Base UI or the underlying library are left out, because both versions accept them.

PropWhat it does
variantSpinnerSee the API reference
labelSpinnerSee the API reference
animatedSpinnerPause the animation without hiding it.
loadingSpinnerTurns on delayed showing. Leave it out to always show.
delaySpinnerSee the API reference
minDurationSpinnerSee the API reference

Variants

PropIn bothOnly HextaUIOnly shadcn/ui
sizeSpinner–smdefaultlgxl–

The HextaUI version

import { Spinner } from "@/components/ui/spinner"

export function SpinnerDemo() {
  return (
    <div className="flex items-center gap-10">
      <Spinner size="xl" />
      <Spinner size="xl" variant="ring" />
    </div>
  )
}

Every state, the keyboard map and the API reference are on the component page.

4 of its examples also have a page of their own.

Switch one component

Run the add command with --overwrite to replace the shadcn/ui file in @/components/ui, then review the diff in git before you keep it. Imports stay the same, and components you don’t replace keep working.

pnpm dlx shadcn@latest add https://hextaui.com/r/spinner.json --overwrite
  • Every prop in the table above is an addition, so call sites written for shadcn/ui don’t pass it yet.
  • Check any part or variant listed only for shadcn/ui before you switch, and map it to the closest HextaUI one.

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