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shadcn-ui/ui

shadcn/ui is a collection of beautifully-designed, accessible React components and a code distribution platform with 115k+ stars. The repository shows active development with frequent commits and moderate dependency management. Its static analysis score of 84 reveals high cyclomatic complexity in the CLI tooling packages — common for developer tooling that handles many edge cases. The code analysis identifies areas for improvement in modularity and documentation across the registry resolver and CSS update utilities.

Scan Summary

Repository

shadcn-ui/ui

Reference

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Scan Level

basic

Scanned At

Jun 30, 2026

Commit Density

90

Package Bloat

50

TL;DR

Score: 55

Despite massive popularity (117k stars) and recent active development, this project has critical sustainability issues: only 1 contributor for a codebase of this scale and 2,076 open issues. The commit density is excellent (90) and package bloat is moderate (50), but the single-maintainer risk and maintenance debt are severe concerns. Verdict: Needs Significant Cleanup

  • •Critically under-resourced project with only 1 contributor managing 117k stars and 2,076 open issues
  • •Very active recent development (90 commit density score) but moderate dependency count (36 packages)
  • •High GitHub popularity (117,814 stars, 9,203 forks) contrasts with poor maintainability indicators
Repository Metadata
Basic information about the repository

Description

A set of beautifully-designed, accessible components and a code distribution platform. Works with your favorite frameworks. Open Source. Open Code.

Stars

117,814

Forks

9,203

Watchers

117,814

Open Issues

2,076

Language

TypeScript

License

MIT

Size

65.0 MB

Contributors

1

Default Branch

main

Created

Jan 4, 2023

Last Push

Jun 30, 2026

Last Commit

Jun 30, 2026

Topics

base-uicomponentslaravelnextjsradix-uireactshadcntailwindcsstanstackuivite
Commit Density
Analysis of repository activity and commit frequency

Score

90/100

Very active development with frequent commits

Commits per Month

66.7

Activity Period

26 Weeks

Recent Commit Activity (weekly)

Package Analysis
Analysis of dependencies and project structure

Score

50/100

Moderate dependency count

Total Dependencies

36

Dev Dependency Ratio

19%

Monorepo Packages

v4reactshadcntests