--- title: Plasma UI — liquid panels for React | daily.dev description: Plasma UI is a React library that renders draggable, fusible UI panels as a single shared WebGL-rendered liquid material on canvas. Panels fuse on contact,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/arqhpducm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Plasma UI — liquid panels for React | daily.dev og:description: Plasma UI is a React library that renders draggable, fusible UI panels as a single shared WebGL-rendered liquid material on canvas. Panels fuse on contact,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/arqhpducm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/arQhpducm.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Plasma UI — liquid panels for React **[Dev World](https://daily.dev/sources/dev_world)** · [@hadilbenabdallah](https://daily.dev/hadilbenabdallah) · 242 upvotes · 21 comments ## Summary Plasma UI is a React library that renders draggable, fusible UI panels as a single shared WebGL-rendered liquid material on canvas. Panels fuse on contact, refract the background, and snap to a grid, with an extensive API for controlling color, physics, lighting, and material appearance (plasma, crystal, metal, wood, stone, cloud). It ships as an npm package with a PlasmaProvider/Plasma component API, hooks for runtime control, and documented limitations such as no layer support within one canvas, no scroll clipping, no drag/resize handles, and rounded-rectangle-only shapes in the current 0.1 release. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@arkmob** · 15 upvotes > super cool but way too gimmicky for my needs **@adarshks** · 11 upvotes > I should try this... **@captainlevi39** · 10 upvotes > Will definitely try this! **@ristotoldsep** · 6 upvotes > This is wildly overqualified for a settings panel. I love it. **@romeltech** · 4 upvotes > What trickery is this? ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Canvas UI Ships 35 HTML-in-Canvas Components That Run WebGL and WebGPU Effects Over Live DOM](https://daily.dev/posts/canvas-ui-ships-35-html-in-canvas-components-that-run-webgl-and-webgpu-effects-over-live-dom-tfekmd60e) · InfoQ · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Hologram UI](https://daily.dev/posts/hologram-ui-zyvgvepnt) · ElixirStatus · 23 upvotes · 3 comments - [Jelly UI — Soft Web Components](https://daily.dev/posts/jelly-ui-soft-web-components-k8vno88yp) · Hacker News · 5 upvotes · 0 comments - [Explore This Tactile UI Powered By Real-Time WebGL Shader](https://daily.dev/posts/explore-this-tactile-ui-powered-by-real-time-webgl-shader-unjsszd7a) · 80 LEVEL · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#react](https://daily.dev/tags/react), [#css](https://daily.dev/tags/css), [#webgl](https://daily.dev/tags/webgl) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/arqhpducm) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/arqhpducm","headline":"Plasma UI — liquid panels for React","text":"Shared: Plasma UI — liquid panels for React","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/arqhpducm","datePublished":"2026-09-23T09:43:58.474Z","dateModified":"2026-09-23T09:45:11.865Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Hadil Ben Abdallah","url":"https://daily.dev/hadilbenabdallah","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--npVXQBAk--/f_auto/v1726134205/avatars/avatar_9pqnrpoJdg1CfgqIBuMCl","description":"An Amazing Software Engineer \u0026 Technical Writer","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"EndorseAction"},"userInteractionCount":43880}},"image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--2-1xRawN--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2011","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":242},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":21}],"sharedContent":{"@type":"WebPage","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/k1tMeALel"},"comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"super cool but way too gimmicky for my needs","datePublished":"2026-09-25T05:39:10.890Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/arQhpducm#c-MpgmkaHFD","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Dan","url":"https://daily.dev/arkmob","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocKCo-HLknsFcRm2wKXOy7ipK4ngNWqTIL_4lc4lZqyt4uqOGww=s96-c"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":15}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"I should try this…","datePublished":"2026-09-25T04:04:47.837Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/arQhpducm#c-6xjcxKEUT","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Adarsh KS","url":"https://daily.dev/adarshks","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--AOhSU9kx--/f_auto/v1785742065/avatars/avatar_gdco5dGLTOCNm55DPuark?_a=BAMAMicg0"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":11}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Will definitely try this!","datePublished":"2026-09-25T05:37:57.575Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/arQhpducm#c-aGlZ1vz6P","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Captain Levi","url":"https://daily.dev/captainlevi39","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--h7oVP0Ce--/f_auto/v1790314852/avatars/avatar_u8IewOfnmNIYOr7gDYuii?_a=BAMAMicg0"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":10}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"This is wildly overqualified for a settings panel. 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