shadcn-ui/CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing

Thanks for your interest in contributing to ui.shadcn.com. We're happy to have you here.

Please take a moment to review this document before submitting your first pull request. We also strongly recommend that you check for open issues and pull requests to see if someone else is working on something similar.

If you need any help, feel free to reach out to @shadcn.

About this repository

This repository is a monorepo.

• We use pnpm and workspaces for development.
• We use Turborepo as our build system.
• We use changesets for managing releases.

Structure

This repository is structured as follows:

apps
└── www
    ├── app
    ├── components
    ├── content
    └── registry
        ├── default
        │   ├── example
        │   └── ui
        └── new-york
            ├── example
            └── ui
packages
└── cli

Path	Description
apps/www/app	The Next.js application for the website.
apps/www/components	The React components for the website.
apps/www/content	The content for the website.
apps/www/registry	The registry for the components.
packages/cli	The shadcn-ui package.

Development

Start by cloning the repository:

git clone git@github.com:shadcn-ui/ui.git

Install dependencies

pnpm install

Run a workspace

You can use the pnpm --filter=[WORKSPACE] command to start the development process for a workspace.

Examples

1. To run the ui.shadcn.com website:

pnpm --filter=www dev

2. To run the shadcn-ui package:

pnpm --filter=shadcn-ui dev

Documentation

The documentation for this project is located in the www workspace. You can run the documentation locally by running the following command:

pnpm --filter=www dev

Documentation is written using MDX. You can find the documentation files in the apps/www/content/docs directory.

Components

We use a registry system for developing components. You can find the source code for the components under apps/www/registry. The components are organized by styles.

apps
└── www
    └── registry
        ├── default
        │   ├── example
        │   └── ui
        └── new-york
            ├── example
            └── ui

When adding or modifying components, please ensure that:

1. You make the changes for every style.
2. You update the documentation.
3. You run pnpm build:registry to update the registry.

Requests for new components

If you have a request for a new component, please open a discussion on GitHub. We'll be happy to help you out.

CLI

The shadcn-ui package is a CLI for adding components to your project. You can find the documentation for the CLI here.

Any changes to the CLI should be made in the packages/cli directory. If you can, it would be great if you could add tests for your changes.

Testing

Tests are written using Vitest. You can run all the tests from the root of the repository.

pnpn test

Please ensure that the tests are passing when submitting a pull request. If you're adding new features, please include tests.