Shadcn Bubble

Explore ready-to-use Shadcn Bubble components for chat messages, with color variants, start/end alignment, reactions, and grouped conversation bubbles, built with React, Radix UI, Base UI, and Tailwind CSS.

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Bubble 08 - Popover

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Deploy the staging build.

Deployment failed.

Bubble 07 - Tooltip

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Did you merge the fix yet?

Yes, just merged it.

Bubble 06 - Show More

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What did you find in the review?

I went through the onboarding flow end to end and found three issues worth fixing before launch. The email step doesn't validate format until submit, so a typo only surfaces after...

Bubble 05 - Reactions

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I never write tests, ship first, ask questions later.

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Living dangerously. Let me know when it breaks.

👀🍿+3

Relax, it's been running clean for a week now.

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This will wipe the cache, are you sure?

Bubble 04 - Links & Buttons

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Bubble 03 - Bubble Group

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The staging build is broken again.

You tell me, it was working an hour ago.

Nothing changed on my end.

Check the last deploy, that's probably it.

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On it, comparing this deploy against yesterday's now.

Bubble 02 - Alignment

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Are we still on for the design review at 2?

Yes, I'll be there.

Great, I'll share the deck beforehand.

Sounds good, thanks!

Bubble 01 - Variants

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This bubble uses the default variant.

Switching to secondary looks like this.

Muted lowers the emphasis, handy for quieter, less important messages.

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Tinted washes the bubble in a soft primary color.

Outline keeps just a border, no fill.

Ghost drops the frame entirely for plain text.

Destructive flags a failed message like this one.

Build Chat Interfaces with Shadcn Bubble

Shadcn Bubble is a small, focused component for the message bubble itself: the framed shape that holds a single piece of conversational content. Built with React, Tailwind CSS, Base UI, and Radix UI primitives.

It deliberately stays narrow in scope. Avatars, sender names, timestamps, and message-level actions belong in the layout around it, not in the bubble, so the same primitive works whether you need a minimal two-sided chat or a fuller message list.

What is Shadcn Bubble?

Shadcn Bubble renders one piece of conversational content as a self-sizing pill, aligned to either side of a chat column. It handles color treatment, alignment, sizing, and edge-anchored reactions, so the surrounding chat UI only has to decide what content goes inside.

Bubbles are commonly used for:

Sent and received chat messages, aligned to opposite sides
Clickable quick replies and suggestion chips
Emoji reactions anchored to a message's corner
Grouped bursts of consecutive messages from one sender
Failed-message states that need to stand out from the rest of a thread

Why Developers Use Shadcn Bubble

A chat bubble looks simple but carries a lot of small decisions: which side it sits on, how it truncates or wraps long content, how a reaction pill anchors without covering the text, and how an interactive bubble stays keyboard accessible. Shadcn Bubble bakes those decisions into one primitive with token-based styling, so a new conversation surface starts from a consistent, accessible base instead of another bespoke chat component.

Key Features

Seven color variants, from a solid primary bubble to a borderless ghost style
Start and end alignment for received and sent messages
Reactions anchored to the top or bottom corner of a bubble
Grouping for consecutive messages from the same sender
Interactive bubbles via a render prop, for real buttons and links
Content-sized width capped at 80%, with ghost removing the cap entirely
Dual-theme parity with semantic design tokens

Tips for Implementation

Reserve the render prop for bubbles that are genuinely clickable, not for styling alone
Keep failure or error meaning in the message text, not only in the destructive tint
Use ghost only for longer, unboxed content like assistant replies or markdown
Give a decorative reaction group one summarizing aria-label instead of per-emoji labels

Common Uses of Bubble

Support and customer chat widgets
AI assistant and copilot conversations
In-app team messaging and inbox threads
Quick reply and suggestion chips
Comment threads with reactions

Easy to Integrate with Any Components

Shadcn Bubble works smoothly with other components:

Pair it with Shadcn Avatar to show who sent each message.
Wrap long threads in Shadcn Scroll Area so the conversation scrolls smoothly.
Combine it with Shadcn Input and Button to build the message composer.
Use Shadcn Tooltip to reveal timestamps on hover.
Add Shadcn Skeleton for a typing or loading state.

FAQs

Free Shadcn Bubble Components

Our Bubble components are free and open-source. Copy the clean TypeScript and Tailwind CSS code into your project to build chat interfaces in minutes.

Build Chat Interfaces with Shadcn Bubble

What is Shadcn Bubble?

Bubbles are commonly used for:

Sent and received chat messages, aligned to opposite sides

Clickable quick replies and suggestion chips

Emoji reactions anchored to a message's corner

Grouped bursts of consecutive messages from one sender

Failed-message states that need to stand out from the rest of a thread

Why Developers Use Shadcn Bubble

Key Features

Seven color variants, from a solid primary bubble to a borderless ghost style

Start and end alignment for received and sent messages

Reactions anchored to the top or bottom corner of a bubble

Grouping for consecutive messages from the same sender

Interactive bubbles via a render prop, for real buttons and links

Content-sized width capped at 80%, with ghost removing the cap entirely

Dual-theme parity with semantic design tokens

Tips for Implementation

Reserve the render prop for bubbles that are genuinely clickable, not for styling alone

Keep failure or error meaning in the message text, not only in the destructive tint

Use ghost only for longer, unboxed content like assistant replies or markdown

Give a decorative reaction group one summarizing aria-label instead of per-emoji labels

Easy to Integrate with Any Components

Shadcn Bubble works smoothly with other components:

Pair it with Shadcn Avatar to show who sent each message.

Wrap long threads in Shadcn Scroll Area so the conversation scrolls smoothly.

Combine it with Shadcn Input and Button to build the message composer.

Use Shadcn Tooltip to reveal timestamps on hover.

Add Shadcn Skeleton for a typing or loading state.

FAQs

Shadcn Bubble

Build Chat Interfaces with Shadcn Bubble

What is Shadcn Bubble?

Why Developers Use Shadcn Bubble

Key Features

Tips for Implementation

Common Uses of Bubble

Easy to Integrate with Any Components

FAQs

Which variant should the current user's own messages use?

How do I make a bubble act as a clickable quick reply or suggestion chip?

What is the ghost variant actually for?

How do I group several consecutive messages from the same sender?

Is a colored destructive bubble enough to show a message failed to send?

Can BubbleReactions hold more emoji than fit, like a WhatsApp-style +3?

Free Shadcn Bubble Components

Build Chat Interfaces with Shadcn Bubble

What is Shadcn Bubble?

Why Developers Use Shadcn Bubble

Key Features

Tips for Implementation

Common Uses of Bubble

Easy to Integrate with Any Components

FAQs

Which variant should the current user's own messages use?

How do I make a bubble act as a clickable quick reply or suggestion chip?

What is the ghost variant actually for?

How do I group several consecutive messages from the same sender?

Is a colored destructive bubble enough to show a message failed to send?

Can BubbleReactions hold more emoji than fit, like a WhatsApp-style +3?

Free Shadcn Bubble Components