Developing components for shadcn/ui is still largely a manual process. Every week, I manually go through 5,000+ components and examples checking spacing, animation, light/dark mode, typography, icons, and more.

Many people are suggesting shadcn automates this, and it sucks that it’s all manual work, but people don’t realize that the MANUAL attention to detail is what keeps shadcn at the top Good work as this, with an obviously high taste for design cannot be automated reliably

That does seem very tedious. We highly appreciate your efforts! Any plans to automate it?

Many people don't realise how much in building such a large project is just repetitive boring work that needs to be done. Sounds like there's plenty pf opportunities for some automation there.

That level of manual QA is wild. No wonder shadcn/ui feels so polished. Massive respect for the craft.

So true!

that's why you're the goat ⚔️

The fact that this is STILL manual is both horrifying and reassuring. Horrifying because 5000 components weekly is brutal. Reassuring because it means the quality bar is set by a human eye, not a linter. That's why shadcn feels right when everything else feels close.

I've noticed that components, like buttons, don't use cursor-pointer. Do you have a philosophy on why? I think it makes it a lot less noticeable that something can be clicked on.

Feel your efforts and 🫡 the 🐐

this is the only way to maintain a high standard and actually out something tasteful out there. Huge respect. This kind of attention to detail will be an increasingly bigger moat in a world full of AI slop 🫡

You're the goat, doing all of this manually and providing value to thousands of projects is something of quite an achievement man. Kudos and I hope this projects grows even more and you have a team handling this with you

GOAT stuff

I’ve created components in component libraries way before AI, so I totally get the pain. But shadcn is insane and super useful for all devs—so thanks, and keep going 🙌

this feels like such an obvious opportunity for ai assisted visual regression testing. have you looked into using vision models to compare component renders across states and themes? could at least flag the obvious issues before you do the manual review

I'm a fan of your work, sir!

I definitely appreciate all the efforts you’ve put through developing shadcn/ui I personally use it for all my projects Thank you @shadcn

Your are the best

Respect ✊

Craft work is the new sexy.

explains why it's so good 🐐

I can relate with it, that after small changes, manually look at the whole project every time. Check everything works smoothly and as expected.

The joy it brings when doing something manually and at the end it comes put mlre beautiful than expected is some heavenly feeling fr. Best library in the modern and your work is inspirational sir!!!!!!!!

Looking for likewise minds to connect

🫡🫡🫡

🙇🙇🙇

It’s a labor of love… 🙏 for doing it

lol fucking lol I have fix

This is the kind of invisible work most people underestimate. Huge respect for the attention to detail.

working on UI is really really the only chosen person who can do it

Automate it!

Lets connect and grow together

Thanks for your abnegation

We love you bro keep it up !

I’m building an application and Shadcn has made my life so easy. I don’t have to think about where to place XYZ since y’all did the work for me and I can focus on shipping! “But all Shadcn sites look the same” — y’all said the same thing about Bootstrap and every other framework before it. S/O to my mentor @DorianDevelops for putting me on to Shadcn 💪👑

@chromaticcom is a good tool for visual ui diffing