Shadcn/UI: A set of beautifully designed components that you can customize

(github.com)

14 points | by doener 3 hours ago

4 comments

threatofrain 1 hour ago

Is there any news for shadcn? Otherwise I'm not sure there's much point to surfacing one of the most visible libraries in the ecosystem.

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- ben8bit 1 hour ago
  
  Yea, was wondering this too.
quadral 1 hour ago

The epitome of all LLM generated websites. I used to use ShadCN but when every LLM defaults to using this UI, it just makes mine look LLM generated.

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- franky47 1 hour ago
  
  The whole point of shadcn/ui is that it’s customisable (that’s why the components are copied into your app as opposed to installed from a central npm package).
  This is made easier with the /create UI: https://ui.shadcn.com/create
  People use it like a design system, but it’s more like a design system for design systems.
  
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  - threatofrain 50 minutes ago
    
    The reason why customizing has some mild disincentive is because as you install more components, all the other new components won't be aware of your changes. Otherwise it's a great start for a custom design system.
- tyleo 1 hour ago
  
  That's funny. I thought ShadCN was LLM generated when I saw this thread and clicked the link. I didn't realize it was the ancestor of all the other stuff.
- super256 1 hour ago
  
  You can easily change the theme by changing the css variables. You might want to take a look at https://tweakcn.com/
  
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  - QuantumNomad_ 1 hour ago
    
    Ironically that site has a paid AI option.
dankobgd 1 hour ago

The most overrated ui lib in last 15 years
ben8bit 59 minutes ago

We initially looked into using shadcn/radix - but it's quite bloated. Maybe even warranted with all the a11y accommodations - even the official W3C ARIA examples are not straightforward (most of the time).