shadcn/ui
shadcn/ui is an open-source UI component set that can be copied and customized to the project and built on it. Instead of being distributed as an npm package, it allows you to directly include the source code in your project. It offers basic building blocks for you to create your own component library.
shadcn/ui
100shadcn-ui · SaaS / Full-Stack
Common commercial products in this category: Firebase, AWS Amplify, Backendless
- You build your own UI library with component sets that you can add and customize directly to the project.
- By expanding open source components in the project, you adapt them to design needs
- With the CLI tool and flat file scheme, you install the components into different framework projects and share them with your team.
- • High number of open issues (1,782)
- • NeutralHacker News
HTML-first, framework-agnostic implementation of shadcn/UI – franken/UI
“Have to agree with most of the commenters here, framework-agnostic really means independent of any framework. This one is built on top of the CSS framework which adds a whole build step. So it was really better to go with a less misleading title like Tailwind CSS implementation…”
- • NeutralHacker News
HTML-first, framework-agnostic implementation of shadcn/UI – franken/UI
“Indeed. One of the reasons my latest project at work did not adopt shadcn/ui is precisely not wanting to introduce the Tailwind dependency. Was hoping this could be an option.”
Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source