Beautifully designed components you copy and paste into your apps
By shadcn
Component libraries added dependencies and forced their styling patterns. What if you could just copy beautiful, accessible components into your project and own the code?
Launched in 2023. Went instantly viral. Became the default UI system for many Next.js and React projects. Inspired similar approaches in other frameworks.
The copy-paste approach went viral on Twitter. Developers loved owning the code instead of depending on a package.
A revolutionary approach: don't install a component library, just copy the code you need. You own it, you customize it, no dependency.
To provide the best starting point for any React project's UI — components you own from day one.
