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.

• ben8bit

  today at 10:45 AM

  Yea, was wondering this too.

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.

• franky47

  today at 10:34 AM

  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.

  • threatofrain

    today at 10:58 AM

    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

  today at 10:37 AM

  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

  today at 10:27 AM

  You can easily change the theme by changing the css variables. You might want to take a look at https://tweakcn.com/

  • QuantumNomad_

    today at 10:46 AM

    Ironically that site has a paid AI option.

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).

The most overrated ui lib in last 15 years