# Chainlift/liftkit

Components from design to production

Repository: https://github.com/Chainlift/liftkit
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/liftkit
Homepage: https://www.chainlift.io/liftkit
Language: CSS
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: component-library, css, nextjs, shadcn, web
Last push: 2026-06-10T21:33:51+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 49/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 86, release rhythm 8, longevity 36
- inputs: {"age_days": 511, "days_push": 84, "days_rel": 415, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3272, forks 62 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:53.151850+00:00)

## What it is
LiftKit is a UI framework and component library built on a system of formulas for scaling, spacing, and color that enforce design best practices like optical symmetry and balanced proportions. It currently targets Next.js without Tailwind and is being rewritten around Base UI primitives.

## Use cases
- build polished react components with consistent spacing and scale
- enforce design best practices automatically in a nextjs app
- generate balanced color ramps for a design system
- get designer-quality ui without design expertise
- style a nextjs project without tailwind

## When to choose
- you use next.js without tailwind and want opinionated, formula-driven design
- you want a design system that enforces proportion and color rules for you
- you're experimenting or evaluating and can tolerate breaking changes

## When to avoid
- you need production-ready, stable components today - the readme explicitly warns against production use
- you use tailwind (only community forks exist)
- you need framework support beyond next.js
- you need long-term API stability during the ongoing rewrite

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: experimental
- function: ui-components, css-framework, frontend-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend, web-design
- platform: -
- tags: design-system, nextjs, shadcn, component-library, spacing-system, color-ramps, not-production-ready, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- Chainlift/liftkit (main) score 49

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:53.151850+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 2026-08-30T07:23:08.158915+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Chainlift/liftkit (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:53.151850+00:00, sha 76a1dc9645db)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.