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Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix

151 pointsby dabinattoday at 4:46 AM51 commentsview on HN

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ricardobeattoday at 10:19 AM

It’s getting tiring to hear at this point, but the Claude voice comes through clearly in this post, and it’s a little off-putting. If even an important product release doesn’t warrant full human attention, where will we draw the line?

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chvidtoday at 6:15 AM

For boring applications - do people prefer the copy paste approach of shadcn instead of a traditional ui library like mantine?

The copy paste approach may be easily modifiable but creates new problems - ie now there is an upgrade ai agent for something that should just be ticking up a version number.

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gherkinnntoday at 6:10 AM

I have used and mostly like Shadcn, and yet their Radix-based radio button was a bit much, as are other choices, where similarly overblown solutions were used.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46688971

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dyllontoday at 5:50 AM

Moving away from codemods and towards LLMs doing migration work is an interesting development.

Even if they’re more deterministic, I wonder if the days of codemods are numbered.

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8cvor6j844qw_d6today at 7:00 AM

What is the shadcn/ui equivalent for Angular?

PrimeNG had a licensing change recently and I'm looking at a suitable alternatives for a fresh project.

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Topfitoday at 5:43 AM

That's great. Started using Base UI early on via 9ui [0] and found the primitives very pleasant to work with, especially if one wants to compose more complex components from other Base UI components. Maybe Shad can reduce some of the dependencies they rely on now.

[0] https://www.9ui.dev

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vmware508today at 8:23 AM

My choice is https://www.skeleton.dev/

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vjeuxtoday at 9:43 AM

Curious if anyone tried Astryx that was open sourced by Meta last week to see how it compares.

nullbiotoday at 7:09 AM

Why? What advantage does it bring?

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ruguotoday at 8:37 AM

Most of the websites I found are still on the radix version.

kcrwfrd_today at 6:41 AM

Tangential but does anyone an have opinion on Base UI vs React Aria?

Trying to decide between the two atm.

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saaskitdevtoday at 10:26 AM

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skeptrunetoday at 6:23 AM

based

upmostlytoday at 6:42 AM

Great news. I've found that no UI library comes close to shadcn's quality.

It even looks incredible when building desktop apps. We used it to build DB Pro [1] and the DB Pro website, and everyone compliments us on our design.

I see it becoming the defacto choice for UIs especially when building with agents.

[1] https://dbpro.app