shadcn/ui Has Free Components: Copy-Paste React Components You Own — No npm Package, No Vendor Lock-In

Material UI adds 200KB to your bundle. Chakra UI forces its theming system. Ant Design looks like every other enterprise app. You install a component library and spend more time fighting its opinions than building features. What if UI components were just files in YOUR project? No npm dependency. No version conflicts. No abstraction layers. That's shadcn/ui. You don't install it — you copy it. Each component is a file you own and modify. How It Works npx shadcn@latest init npx shadcn@latest add button npx shadcn@latest add dialog npx shadcn@latest add form Each command copies a component file into components/ui/ . You own it. Edit it. Delete it. No node_modules dependency. What You Get components/ui/ button.tsx ← you own this dialog.tsx ← you own this input.tsx ← you own this form.tsx ← you own this toast.tsx ← you own this dropdown-menu.tsx ← you own this Usage import { Button } from " @/components/ui/button " ; import { Input } from " @/components/ui/input " ; import { Dialog , Dialo