# franken-ui/ui

Franken UI is an HTML-first UI component library built on UIkit 3 and extended with LitElement, inspired by shadcn/ui.

Repository: https://github.com/franken-ui/ui
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/franken-ui-ui
Homepage: https://franken-ui.dev
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: component, css, design-system, framework, shadcn, shadcn-ui, tailwind, tailwindcss, ui, uikit
Last push: 2026-06-14T00:37:11+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 64/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 87, release rhythm 35, longevity 64
- inputs: {"age_days": 901, "days_push": 81, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2603, forks 41 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:03.476446+00:00)

## What it is
Franken UI is an HTML-first UI component library built on UIkit 3 and extended with LitElement, inspired by shadcn/ui. It provides copy-pasteable components styled with Tailwind CSS utilities for building web interfaces without heavy JavaScript frameworks.

## Use cases
- build a website with shadcn/ui-style components without react
- copy-paste ui components into plain html pages
- style forms and modals with tailwind css utilities
- add accessible components like dropdowns, modals, and tabs to a static site
- create a dashboard ui with vanilla html and lit web components

## When to choose
- you want shadcn/ui aesthetics in an HTML-first or framework-agnostic project
- your stack is plain HTML, server-rendered templates, or lightweight web components
- you want UIkit behavior combined with Tailwind CSS styling

## When to avoid
- you need a full React component ecosystem with npm package updates
- the project has moved on to 0build and you want actively developed tooling
- you require deep integration with a specific SPA framework's state management

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, css-framework, frontend-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend, web-design
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: html-first, uikit, litelement, shadcn-ui, tailwindcss, copy-paste-components, design-system, web-server

## Member repositories
- franken-ui/ui (main) score 64

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:03.476446+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 2026-08-30T02:21:07.963889+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/franken-ui/ui (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:03.476446+00:00, sha 10f4e6c1950f)
  - homepage: https://franken-ui.dev (fetched 2026-08-29T10:04:21.373604+00:00, sha 9b99fc1c5b0a)
  - site_page: https://franken-ui.dev/docs/2.1/installation (fetched 2026-08-29T10:04:21.380916+00:00, sha a527c3acead6)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.