Component Libraries

Build beautiful UIs faster with pre-designed components you can customize

What are Component Libraries?

Component libraries provide pre-designed and coded components that you can use in your projects. These could be providing your basic needs (like a button) or cool visual or interactive things (like a testimonial card that hovers around and shines) that someone has designed and coded.

Why Use Component Libraries:

Skip building common components from scratch
Get professional designs instantly
Customize existing designs to your needs
Save development time
Focus on your unique features

Instead of making, for example, a calendar from scratch, you can visit a free library and use their design. You can then edit the original to look how you'd want it to or as you'd want it to.

Basic UI Components

For your basic needs like buttons, sidebars, lists, image galleries, alerts, modals, graphs, dashboards, sliders, and more, visit shadcn/ui.

AI Prompts for shadcn/ui:

🎯 General Usage

"Use shadcn for making..."

➕ Adding Components

"Use shadcn to add... to my project"

Cool Visual Effects & Interactive Components

For cool styling and visual effects or interesting interactive things like "make my text shine/shimmer" or "having an interactive button that glows and throws up confetti," or "an animated background that shoots meteors", use Magic UI or 21st Dev.

Example AI Prompts

Helpful Prompts for Different Scenarios:

🏗️ Basic Components

"Use shadcn to add a data table with sorting and pagination to my dashboard"

✨ Visual Effects

"I want to add a shimmering text effect to my hero section using Magic UI"

🎯 Interactive Elements

"Create an interactive button that glows and shows confetti when clicked using 21st Dev components"

🎨 Background Effects

"Add an animated background with shooting meteors using Magic UI or 21st Dev"

🔄 Component Customization

"Take this shadcn button component and customize it to have a gradient background and hover animation"

Component Library Strategy

Decision Framework:

✓

Need basic UI components?

Use shadcn/ui for buttons, forms, modals, tables, etc.

✨

Want visual effects and animations?

Use Magic UI for shimmer, glow, particles, and magical effects.

🚀

Not sure what you're looking for?

Browse 21st Dev and find yourself the perfect component for the job.

Pro Tip: You can combine multiple libraries! Start with shadcn for your foundation, then add Magic UI or 21st Dev components for special effects and interactions.