
Vacano UI - 64 React Components with an MCP Server for AI Assistants
Hi! I'm Iakov, UI Kit Lead at Exante. At work, we maintain a proprietary design system -- powerful, tailored to our specific needs, but closed-source. In my spare time, I rethought a number of solutions from my day job, reworked them into general-purpose patterns, and packaged them as an open-source library -- Vacano UI . 64 components, 17 form wrappers, 1800+ icons, 10 validators, documentation for humans, and an MCP server for AI assistants. Philosophy There are plenty of UI libraries. Why another one? Most UI kits fall into two camps. Headless libraries give you logic without styles -- powerful and flexible, but you're on your own for the visuals. Opinionated libraries give you polished components out of the box, but lock you into a rigid design system that's hard to escape. Vacano UI sits in between. Components ship with a ready-made look and work out of the box. But every sub-element is accessible for styling through typed classname slots -- no !important , no nested selectors, no
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