Guide
Shadcn/ui Project Structure

Shadcn/ui Project Structure

[Architecture: Shadcn/ui Project Structure] [L: Introduction]

Shadcn/ui provides beautifully designed accessible, customizable components that you can copy and paste into your apps.

Shadcn/ui codebase size is decent, not as large as the likes of Supabase, Cal.com, Lobechat. In this guide, you will learn the project structure used in Shadcn/ui.

Inspired by Bulletproof-react's Project Structure, We provide an overview of the project's folder structure.

Shadcn/ui is a monorepo and uses Turborepo build system

In this guide, we study the project structure in this order:

You will find additional tooling and configuration at the root level, these are analyzed and documented in Shadcn/ui tooling.

References:

  1. https://turbo.build/repo/docs
  2. https://github.com/alan2207/bulletproof-react/blob/master/docs/project-structure.md
  3. https://github.com/shadcn-ui/ui

[L: Root level structure] Let's look at an overview of the project structure of Supabase at root level.

apps                   # `apps` folder contains applications/systems. [Read more](link-to-guide)
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docker                 # `docker` folder contains docker related code for self hosting purposes. [Read more](link-to-guide)
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examples               # `examples` folder contains Supabase usage examples. [Read more](link-to-guide)
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i18n                   # `i18n` folder contains README.md in mutiple languages. [Read more](link-to-guide)
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packages               # `packages` folder contains shareable internal packages used across the monorepo. [Read more](link-to-guide) 
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playwright-tests       # `playwright-tests` contains tests that test features commonly used in local studio [Read more](link-to-guide)
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scripts                # `scripts` is an internal-use only folder [Read more](link-to-guide)
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supabase
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tests
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vale/styles
+-- app               # application layer containing:
|   |                 # this folder might differ based on the meta framework used
|   +-- routes        # application routes / can also be pages
|   +-- app.tsx       # main application component
|   +-- provider.tsx  # application provider that wraps the entire application with different global providers - this might also differ based on meta framework used
|   +-- router.tsx    # application router configuration
+-- assets            # assets folder can contain all the static files such as images, fonts, etc.
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+-- components        # shared components used across the entire application

References:

  1. https://github.com/supabase/supabase
  2. https://turbo.build/repo/docs/crafting-your-repository