Astro Shadcn UI

Astro Starter Kit: Shadcn-ui, Tailwind CSS & TypeScript

Kickstart your web development with this minimal Astro starter kit, pre-configured with Shadcn-ui for beautiful components, Tailwind CSS for utility-first styling, and TypeScript for robust, type-safe code. This boilerplate is designed to accelerate your project setup, allowing you to dive straight into building performant and visually appealing user interfaces. It provides a solid foundation, integrating best practices and popular tools to streamline your development workflow from the get-go.

Features:

• Astro Framework Base: Utilizes the Astro framework for building fast, content-focused websites with optimal performance.
• Shadcn-ui Integration: Comes with Shadcn-ui, providing a set of beautifully designed, accessible, and customizable UI components, typically managed via components.json and located in src/components/ui/.
• Tailwind CSS Ready: Pre-configured with Tailwind CSS, including tailwind.config.cjs, for rapid UI development through a utility-first styling approach.
• TypeScript Enabled: Includes TypeScript, with configuration files like tsconfig.json and env.d.ts, for enhanced code quality, maintainability, and developer experience with static typing.
• Defined Project Structure: Features a logical folder organization for pages (src/pages/), components (src/components/), libraries (src/lib/), styles (src/styles/), and static public assets (public/).
• Essential NPM Scripts: Provides standard commands like npm run dev (starts local dev server), npm run build (builds for production), and npm run preview (previews production build) for an efficient development lifecycle.
• Quick Project Initialization: Easily scaffolded using the Astro CLI with the command npm create astro@latest -- --template rakarmp/astro-shadcn-ui.
• Cloud IDE Integration: Offers direct "Open in StackBlitz" and "Open with CodeSandbox" links for immediate online development, testing, and collaboration.

Summary:

This Astro starter kit provides developers with a powerful and minimal foundation for building modern web applications. By integrating Astro, Shadcn-ui, Tailwind CSS, and TypeScript, it offers a highly efficient environment for creating stylish, performant, and type-safe user interfaces. It simplifies the initial setup process with a clear project structure and essential development scripts, enabling a quicker path from idea to production-ready application.