shadcn

GitHub Registries shipped June 1, letting any public repo become an installable source registry with a registry.json at its root.¹

Any GitHub repo is now a registry. Add a registry.json, define items — components, hooks, utilities, design tokens, feature kits — and users install directly via pnpm dlx shadcn@latest add <username>/<repo>/<item>. No shadcn build, no publish step, no registry server required.²

Registry authoring got two structural improvements. The include field lets you split a large registry across multiple registry.json files and compose them at build time.³ shadcn registry validate checks source registries for errors before publishing — both landed in the May 20 release.⁴

shadcn eject removes the CSS dependency. When shadcn init runs, it adds @import "shadcn/tailwind.css" for shared Tailwind utilities used by Radix and Base UI components. Running shadcn eject inlines that file into your global CSS and drops the shadcn package dependency entirely.⁵

Rhea joined the style catalog. A compact variant of Luma — same rounded geometry, smaller spacing and controls, higher information density — aimed at focused product interfaces.⁶ Try it at /create?preset=b27GcrRo. Sera, the typography-first style with uppercase headings and underlined controls, also shipped in April.

Preset workflows are now end-to-end. shadcn apply swaps a preset into an existing project without starting over.⁷ Partial apply (--only theme / --only font) lets you adopt just the pieces you want.⁸ shadcn preset decode, share, open, and resolve make preset codes inspectable from the terminal.⁹

Smaller CLI additions: package.json#imports aliases now work for component installs and import rewrites (shadcn@4.7.0), and --pointer on shadcn init opts into cursor: pointer on buttons.¹⁰¹¹