Advanced Masonry Grid
ProA high-performance masonry grid for image-heavy portfolios. Features dynamic loading, sleek hover transitions, and a responsive layout that adapts to any screen size.
About the Advanced Masonry Grid Section
The Advanced Masonry Grid is a free, copy-paste ready React section built with Tailwind CSS and fully compatible with Next.js, Vite, and any React-based project. It belongs to the Gallery collection on Lightswind UI — a library of 200+ production-ready UI sections.
A high-performance masonry grid for image-heavy portfolios. Features dynamic loading, sleek hover transitions, and a responsive layout that adapts to any screen size.
This section is classified as intermediate difficulty. Intermediate — Some Tailwind knowledge helpful This is a premium section available with a Lightswind UI Pro subscription.
How to Use the Advanced Masonry Grid
Choose your preferred method — copy-paste for quick use, CLI for project-wide setup, or MCP for AI-assisted integration.
Click the Copy button in the preview panel above, then paste directly into your project.
- 1Click Copy button → paste into app/ or components/ directory
- 2Ensure Tailwind CSS is installed (tailwind.config.js configured)
- 3Import and render on any page — customize with Tailwind classes
- 4Fully responsive — works on mobile, tablet, desktop out of the box
Use the Lightswind CLI to add blocks directly to your project. Pro users can authenticate with an API key to unlock premium blocks.
Step 1 — Initialize Lightswind in your project
$ npx lightswind@latest init
Step 2 — Pro users: Authenticate with your API key
$ npx lightswind@latest auth login --key=sk_pro_your_api_key $ npx lightswind@latest auth status
Get your API key at lightswind.com/pricing. Free users can add free blocks without authentication.
Step 3 — Add this block to your project
$ npx lightswind@latest add gallery03
The Lightswind MCP Server connects directly to Cursor, Claude Desktop, or Windsurf — your AI agent can fetch, understand, and insert any block in real-time with zero hallucinations.
Start the MCP server
$ npx lightswind@latest mcp
Or auto-configure for Cursor / Claude Desktop
$ npx lightswind@latest mcp init
Add to your mcp.json (Cursor / VS Code)
{
"mcpServers": {
"lightswind": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "lightswind@latest", "mcp"]
}
}
}After setup, tell your AI: "Add the Advanced Masonry Grid section to my page using Lightswind UI"
Bonus: Train your AI on Lightswind patterns
$ npx lightswind@latest init-cursor
Generates .cursorrules & .windsurfrules — teaches Cursor exactly how to use Lightswind.
Requires Node.js 18+. Compatible with Cursor, Claude Desktop, Windsurf, VS Code, and all MCP-enabled AI editors. Full setup guide →
Features & Highlights
- masonry grid support
- portfolio layout support
- image gallery support
- dynamic grid support
- photo showcase support
- responsive masonry support
- Fully responsive layout
- Dark mode compatible
- Zero external dependencies
- TypeScript ready
- Copy-paste in seconds
Lightswind UI Components Included (2)
This section is composed using modular Lightswind UI components. Click any component below to explore its standalone code and documentation:
Frequently Asked Questions
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Section Details
- Category
- Gallery
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Animated
- No
- License
- Pro
- Added
- 2026-01-29
- Updated
- 2026-01-29
- Framework
- React / Next.js / Vite
- Styling
- Tailwind CSS
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