Thinking Orbs Ships as a Zero-Dependency npm Package — Six Animated 'AI Is Thinking' Components With a Playground, 5,000+ Likes in a Day

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A new animated component library published as `npm install thinking-orbs` offers six orb types optimized for both large and small sizes, light and dark mode, a playground, and zero dependencies — targeting the now-ubiquitous loading state for agentic UIs. It pulled 5,021 likes and 234 retweets, one of the strongest developer-tool reactions in the last 48 hours. The category itself is the signal: 'thinking indicator' has become a standard enough UI primitive in AI products to support a dedicated library.