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Bootstrap vs shadcn/ui

Bootstrap and shadcn/ui are free.

Bootstrap logo: A CSS toolkit with a grid, buttons, forms, and navbars ready to use.
Bootstrap logo: A CSS toolkit with a grid, buttons, forms, and navbars ready to use.

Bootstrap

Free

A CSS toolkit with a grid, buttons, forms, and navbars ready to use.

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Pros of Bootstrap

  • A full layout is possible from the docs alone

  • The class names are widely known

  • Works with plain HTML, React, or Angular

Cons of Bootstrap

  • The default theme is recognizable

  • Customizing it deeply means fighting the theme

shadcn/ui logo: Accessible React components you copy into the repo and edit yourself.
shadcn/ui logo: Accessible React components you copy into the repo and edit yourself.

shadcn/ui

Free

Accessible React components you copy into the repo and edit yourself.

Try it

Pros of shadcn/ui

  • You own the component source

  • Matches the look of a lot of current React apps

  • v0 generates screens that use these components

Cons of shadcn/ui

  • You maintain the copied files when the upstream changes

  • It assumes React and Tailwind