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July 25, 2026 · View on GitHub

UIAble

A modern UI library built with Tailwind CSS and Shadcn architecture.

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UIAble is an open-source collection of reusable UI components designed for developers who want clean, practical, and fully customizable building blocks for modern frontend projects, without lock-in, without unnecessary abstraction, and without rebuilding the same UI patterns from scratch every time.

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Why UIAble?

Most UI libraries built on Shadcn end up looking and feeling nearly identical. Same structure. Same visual defaults. Same tradeoffs.

UIAble was built to be different, not by adding more features but by being more intentional about what a component library should actually do in a real project.

The common frustrations with existing libraries:

  • Too opinionated about things that should be left to you
  • Components that look great in demos but break under real product requirements
  • Hard to customize after initial setup
  • Dependency-heavy structures that become difficult to escape
  • Logic hidden behind abstraction layers you can't inspect or modify

UIAble addresses all of these directly.


What Makes It Different

You get the actual code

No black-box packages. Components are copied directly into your codebase. You see them, you edit them, you own them.

Built for real product UI

The focus is on components that handle real requirements, including form validation, edge case inputs, accessible dialogs, scalable tables, and proper keyboard navigation, rather than components optimized for screenshots.

Tailwind-first, not Tailwind-locked

UIAble uses Tailwind CSS in a clean, sensible way. No class soup. No structural gymnastics. Just readable component code that happens to use Tailwind well.

No lock-in

If you stop using UIAble tomorrow, your code still works. Because it's already yours.

Open source from day one

The entire component library is transparent and open for contribution. No gated tiers. No "pro" version. Just components.


Tech Stack

LayerTechnology
StylingTailwind CSS v4
Architectureshadcn/ui
PrimitivesBase UI
LanguageTypeScript
FrameworkReact (Next.js compatible)

Components

Form Controls

Button Button Group Checkbox Combobox Command Palette Date Picker Input Input Group Input OTP Native Select Radio Radio Group Select Slider Switch Textarea Toggle Toggle Group

Data Display

Avatar Badge Card Carousel Chart Data Table Empty State Hover Card KBD Label List Group Table Tooltip Skeleton Calendar

Feedback & Overlays

Alert Alert Dialog Dialog Drawer Progress Sheet Sonner Spinner
Breadcrumb Dropdown Menu Menubar Navbar Navigation Menu Pagination Tabs Sidebar

Layout & Interaction

Accordion Collapsible Context Menu Item Popover

Other Components

Aspect Ratio Attachment Bubble Command Empty Field Marker Message Message Scroller Resizable Scroll Area Separator Typography

Blocks

Pre-built page sections ready to drop into your project.

Contact

Contact 1

Content

Content 1

CTA

Call To Action 1 Call To Action 2

Faq

FAQ 1

Feature

Feature 2
Footer 3
Gallery 4

Hero

Hero 2

Portfolio

Portfolio 4

Pricing

Pricing 2

Process

Process 1

Statistics

Statistics 1

Team

Team 1

Testimonial

Testimonial 1

Landing

Landing Header Hero Component 1 Component 2 Feature Contact Footer

Components are added based on practical frontend needs, not trend-driven requests. If you need something that isn't here, open a discussion or a PR.


License

MIT © UIAble

You can use, modify, and distribute UIAble freely in personal and commercial projects. No attribution required, though it's always appreciated.

See the full LICENSE file for details.


Acknowledgements

UIAble stands on the shoulders of great open-source work:

  • shadcn/ui — for the copy-paste component model
  • Tailwind CSS — for the utility-first foundation
  • Base UI — for unstyled accessible primitives
  • Lucide — for the icon set

UIAble is intentionally not trying to feel like a product. It's trying to feel like something you quietly copy into your project — and forget about, because it just works.