⛵ Ship UI

A modern signal based and zoneless compatable UI library for Angular visit our website shipui.com for more info.

Docs can be found at docs.shipui.com

Base setup

To start using ShipUI make sure you're using angular 19 or newer.

Install

npm i -S @ship-ui/core

Add styles inside your src/styles.scss

@use '@ship-ui/core/styles';

Inside your angular.json file

you need to add the ship assets to your assets array this is to add the ship default font

"assets": [
  "src/assets",
  {
    "glob": "**/*",
    "input": "./node_modules/@ship-ui/core/assets",
    "output": "./ship-ui-assets/"
  }
]

Setup Icons

Ship comes with a custom CLI for subsetting and auto generating an icon font currently we support Phospher icons

<!-- Add to the head of your index.html -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/ship.css" />

Add following scripts to your package.json scripts

One are for generating the icon font once, the other has a watch feature.

"scripts": {
  ..
  "gen:font": "ship-fg --src='./src' --out='./src/assets' --rootPath='./'",
  "watch:font": "ship-fg --src='./src' --out='./src/assets' --rootPath='./' --watch",
  ..
}

Now update your current start and build scripts

You now wanna add when to build the font and when to watch so it works well together with your start and build, remember to add the npm run gen:font to all your build scripts

"scripts": {
  ..
  "start": "npm run watch:font & ng serve",
  "build": "npm run gen:font & ng build",
  ..
}

AI & Developer Experience

ShipUI comes with built-in tools to enhance your development workflow through AI and IDE integrations.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

ShipUI includes an MCP server that allows AI agents (like Cursor, Claude Desktop, or custom tools) to understand and correctly use ShipUI components.

Setup in Editors

To use ShipUI with your favorite AI-powered editor, add the following configuration:

Command: npx @ship-ui/core ship-mcp

• Cursor:
  1. Go to Settings > Models > MCP.
  2. Click + Add new MCP server.
  3. Name: ShipUI, Type: command, Command: npx @ship-ui/core ship-mcp.
• Antigravity:
  1. Open your workspace or global configuration.
  2. Add @ship-ui/core to your mcpServers list or run with npx @ship-ui/core ship-mcp.
• Claude Desktop: Add to your claude_desktop_config.json:

  "mcpServers": {
    "ship-ui": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@ship-ui/core", "ship-mcp"]
    }
  }
  

To manually verify the server is working:

npx @ship-ui/core ship-mcp

VS Code Snippets

The library includes high-quality TextMate snippets for all components, including "full" versions with choices for colors, variants, and sizes.

To use them in VS Code, you can add a link to the snippets file in your .vscode/settings.json or copy the content to your project's snippets. The file is located at: ./node_modules/@ship-ui/core/snippets/ship-ui.code-snippets

Keyboard Accessibility (A11y)

ShipUI includes a robust global keybindings service ShipA11yKeybindingsService that manages default keyboard shortcuts for all interactive components (such as selects, datepickers, menus, tabs, and dialogs) with full support for WASD alternatives and macOS custom formatting.

Default Keybinding Actions

• Datepicker: Prev/Next Month (PageUp / PageDown), Prev/Next Year (Shift+PageUp / Shift+PageDown), Start/End Month (Home / End), Move focus (ArrowRight, d, ArrowLeft, a, ArrowDown, s, ArrowUp, w).
• Selection Groups (Tabs, Steppers, Button Groups): Navigate (ArrowRight, ArrowDown, d, s, ArrowLeft, ArrowUp, a, w), Select (Enter, space).
• Select: Navigate (ArrowDown, s, ArrowUp, w), Select (Enter, space), Close (Escape).
• Menu: Navigate (ArrowDown, s, ArrowUp, w), Submenus (ArrowRight, d, ArrowLeft, a), Select (Enter, space).
• Spotlight: Navigate (ArrowDown, s, ArrowUp, w), Open spotlight (ctrlOrCmd+k).
• Dialogs & Popovers: Close (Escape).
• Form Controls (Checkbox, Toggle, Radio): Toggle/Select (Enter, space).
• Table: Sort column (Enter, space).
• Blueprint: Cancel connection drag (Escape).
• Editor Toolbar: Navigate items (ArrowRight, ArrowDown, ArrowLeft, ArrowUp), Jump (Home, End).

Overriding Keybindings Globally

You can customize or override any of these keybindings globally in your application using the SHIP_A11Y_KEYBINDINGS_OVERRIDE token in your app configuration:

import { ApplicationConfig } from '@angular/core';
import { SHIP_A11Y_KEYBINDINGS_OVERRIDE } from '@ship-ui/core/ship-a11y-keybindings';

export const appConfig: ApplicationConfig = {
  providers: [
    {
      provide: SHIP_A11Y_KEYBINDINGS_OVERRIDE,
      useValue: {
        // Change spotlight search shortcut to cmd+p / ctrl+p
        'spotlight.open': 'ctrlOrCmd+p',
        // Change datepicker controls to custom mappings
        'datepicker.day-next': 'ArrowRight, l',
        'datepicker.day-prev': 'ArrowLeft, h',
      }
    }
  ]
};

Keybinding Syntax

• Support multiple key combinations using comma-separated notation (e.g. 'ArrowRight, d').
• Modifier combinations are specified with +, such as 'ctrl+shift+k'.
• Use ctrlOrCmd to automatically bind to Command on macOS and Control on Windows/Linux/ChromeOS.
• Standard keys like Enter, space (all lowercase), Escape, ArrowUp, PageUp, etc. are fully supported.
• If a component needs keybinding checking manually, inject ShipA11yKeybindingsService and check this.keybindings.matches(event, 'action.name').

Follow our progress

We have a todos file where we try keep track of features/bugs/blockers currently in pipeline etc

Notes

• There was raised thoughts on separating out the icon utility the decision are for now not to since this package are depended on those icons for now, we can open up a new debate about it if some comes with a solid argument for it
• For safari <18 the selects does not support using options so you must use <sh-option> instead of <option> (this is fixed in the next select version currently suffixed with -new) (We circumvent this by using a templates instead of options)

Contributors

Creators

• Simon - development
• Morten - design

Sponsors

• Duplicati

License

MIT