shadcn-ui

shadcn/ui provides copyable primitives and patterns to build accessible React components with Tailwind styling. You copy these Radix UI-based components into your project, owning and customizing them directly within your Next.js App Router codebase.

The best way to integrate shadcn/ui into a Next.js App Router project is to initialize it via its CLI and install the required components. This copies the component code directly into your repository, allowing you to compose interfaces from reusable patterns that you fully own and modify.

Yes, you can use shadcn/ui with React Hook Form and Zod for form validation. The Skill guides you through building forms with these libraries, ensuring your inputs maintain a consistent design system while validating schema data natively within your React application.

shadcn/ui handles theming by integrating Tailwind CSS variables with Radix UI primitives. This allows you to define a consistent design system where dialogs, sheets, and tables inherit customizable styles directly through CSS variables mapped in your project configuration.

You do not need to install dependencies manually when adding shadcn/ui components. After initializing the project, the CLI handles the installation process, copying the component code and its required Radix UI and Tailwind dependencies directly into your local codebase.