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shadcn/ui

shadcn/ui

Beautifully designed components you own

shadcn/ui provides copy-paste React components built on Radix UI and Tailwind CSS. Not a package — components live in your codebase. Highly customizable and accessible.

Panel Reviews

The Builder

The Builder

Developer Perspective

Ship

The 'copy into your codebase' approach is genius. Full ownership, full customization, no version dependency hell.

The Creator

The Creator

Content & Design

Ship

Beautiful defaults that look professional immediately. The theming system makes brand customization straightforward.

The Skeptic

The Skeptic

Reality Check

Ship

Solved the component library problem by not being a library. The most practical approach to UI components.

Community Sentiment

Overall2,539 mentions
81% positive13% neutral6% negative
Hacker News512 mentions
78%15%7%

Finally a component library that doesn't fight you when you want to customize

Reddit743 mentions
82%12%6%

The copy-paste approach is genius — it's in your codebase and you own it

Twitter/X1050 mentions
80%14%6%

Shipped 3 projects this month using shadcn/ui, never going back to Material UI

Product Hunt234 mentions
85%11%4%

Best React component library I've used. Tailwind + Radix is a perfect combo