Shadcn UI
shadcn/ui is a collection of beautifully designed, accessible, and customizable UI components for React, built on top of Radix UI and styled with Tailwind CSS. Shadcn revolutionized UI libraries with a copy-paste model, giving developers full control without dependencies. Its component registry l...
shadcn/ui is a set of components for React, built on Radix UI and styled with Tailwind CSS.
Shadcn redefines how developers use UI component libraries by shifting from traditional npm packages to a copy-paste model. This approach gives developers full control over their components while eliminating dependency bloat and update issues. Additionally, shadcn/ui introduces a component registry, allowing users to browse, pull, and customize high-quality components effortlessly.
Features
- Copy-Paste Model – Components are added directly to projects, ensuring full ownership and flexibility.
- Component Registry – Developers can browse and pull pre-built components while maintaining full customization.
- No External Dependencies – Unlike traditional UI libraries, shadcn/ui components are self-contained, reducing update conflicts.
- Tailwind and Radix UI-Based – Components are styled with Tailwind CSS and built on Radix UI for accessibility and consistency.
- Fully Customizable – Since components are part of the project code, they can be modified without restrictions.
- Lightweight and Fast – No extra dependencies mean a leaner, more efficient codebase.
Philosphy
Shadcn UI flips the script by treating components as open code, designed to be copied, customized, and fully owned by you. It follows several key principles:
- Editable Code – No black-box components. You can modify, extend, and adapt every element.
- Composable API – A unified structure across all components makes them predictable and easy to use.
- Self-Hosted & Distributed – A CLI tool helps manage components across projects without relying on external packages.
- Next.js
Next.js is a React-based web framework that enables server-side rendering, static site generation, and other powerful features for building modern web applications.
- React
React is a widely used JavaScript library for building user interfaces and single-page applications. It follows a component-based architecture and uses a virtual DOM to efficiently update and render UI components
- Tailwind
Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework that provides pre-defined classes for building responsive and customizable user interfaces.
- Radix UI
Radix Primitives is a low-level UI component library with a focus on accessibility, customization and developer experience. You can use these components either as the base layer of your design system, or adopt them incrementally.
- Shadcn UI
Beautifully designed components that you can copy and paste into your apps. Accessible. Customizable. Open Source.
- UI Kits & Components
A UI kit provides developers with a set of reusable components that can be easily integrated into a website or application. These components are pre-designed with consistent styling and functionality, allowing developers to save time and effort in the design and development process. UI kits can be either custom-built or third-party, and often include components for buttons, forms, typography, icons, and more.
- Eslint
ESLint is a linter for JavaScript that analyzes code to detect and report on potential problems and errors, as well as enforce consistent code style and best practices, helping developers to write cleaner, more maintainable code.
- Postcss
PostCSS is a popular open-source tool that enables web developers to transform CSS styles with JavaScript plugins. It allows for efficient processing of CSS styles, from applying vendor prefixes to improving browser compatibility, ultimately resulting in cleaner, faster, and more maintainable code.
- Typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, providing optional static typing, classes, interfaces, and other features that help developers write more maintainable and scalable code. TypeScript's static typing system can catch errors at compile-time, making it easier to build and maintain large applications.
