# hunvreus/basecoat

A components library built with Tailwind CSS that works with any web stack.

Repository: https://github.com/hunvreus/basecoat
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/basecoat
Homepage: https://basecoatui.com
Language: MDX
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: alpine, components, components-library, html, shadcn, shadcnui, tailwind, tailwindcss, ui, uikit, javascript, js, vanilla-js, vanilla-javascript
Last push: 2026-07-21T16:09:54+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 73/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 93, release rhythm 66, longevity 42
- inputs: {"age_days": 594, "days_push": 43, "days_rel": 66, "gap_med": 117.0, "n_releases_24m": 3}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4261, forks 138 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:40.615857+00:00)

## What it is
Basecoat is a Tailwind CSS component library that reimplements the shadcn/ui design system using semantic HTML, CSS, and a small amount of vanilla JavaScript, with no React or framework runtime dependencies. It ships multiple style packs, dark mode, shadcn/ui theme compatibility, and optional Nunjucks/Jinja templates, installable via npm or CDN.

## Use cases
- add shadcn/ui-style components to a non-React web app
- style a Flask or Django app with Tailwind components
- use shadcn/ui design system with plain HTML
- build accessible UI components without React
- add dark mode and themable components to a Rails or Laravel project
- prototype static pages with a component CSS from a CDN

## When to choose
- your stack is not React (Flask, Rails, Laravel, Django, plain HTML) but you want shadcn/ui aesthetics
- you prefer semantic HTML classes over utility-class soup
- you want lightweight, mostly CSS-only components with minimal JavaScript
- you need shadcn/ui theme compatibility and dark mode

## When to avoid
- you are building a React app and want the full shadcn/ui component ecosystem
- you need complex stateful components with rich client-side behavior
- you want a JavaScript component framework with typed props and composability

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: ui-components, css-framework, templating
- domain: web-development, frontend, web-design
- platform: browser, cross-platform
- tags: tailwindcss, shadcn-ui, vanilla-javascript, framework-agnostic, dark-mode, cdn, nunjucks, jinja, design-system, html-components, web-server, nodejs

## Member repositories
- hunvreus/basecoat (main) score 73

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:40.615857+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:22:05.392291+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/hunvreus/basecoat (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:40.615857+00:00, sha 6b6f3b72a915)
  - homepage: https://basecoatui.com (fetched 2026-08-29T09:11:58.432118+00:00, sha 0270db2eb6e8)
  - site_page: https://basecoatui.com/installation (fetched 2026-08-29T09:11:58.436416+00:00, sha 98b448ab5563)
  - site_page: https://basecoatui.com/introduction (fetched 2026-08-29T09:11:58.434646+00:00, sha 26c228af2d1a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.