shellui sets up Tailwind CSS in a Blazor project and copies ShellUI components into it as source you own, in the spirit of shadcn/ui.

The tool runs on .NET 8 or later. The projects it sets up can target .NET 8, 9 or 10:

dotnet tool install --global ShellUI.CLI

Or as a local tool, invoked as dotnet shellui:

dotnet new tool-manifest
dotnet tool install --local ShellUI.CLI

From the root of a Blazor project:

shellui init
shellui add button card dialog
dotnet watch

init sets up Tailwind CSS 4.3.2 (the standalone executable, or npm), writes the default theme to wwwroot/input.css, adds a build step that compiles it to wwwroot/app.css, and patches App.razor with an interactive render mode, a theme script, and shellui.js. It removes the template's local Bootstrap copy and its <link>, and restyles the template's sample pages if you haven't edited them.

add writes each component and everything it depends on to Components/UI/. It also adds the NuGet packages, stylesheet links, and _Imports.razor usings the components need.

init options:

• --tailwind standalone|npm selects how Tailwind is installed. standalone needs no Node.js. npm mode runs npm through cmd, so it only works on Windows.
• --yes runs without prompts; Tailwind defaults to standalone.
• --force re-initializes a project that already has shellui.json.
• --dashboard 02|01|none sets up a dashboard layout (sticky or scrolling header) and makes it the default layout. Without the option, init asks; --yes alone means none.
• --replace-layout switches to the dashboard even when the app has a custom layout.
• --style is recorded in shellui.json. All styles currently install the same templates.

add accepts names separated by spaces or commas, and --force overwrites existing files. add all installs every component except the layout blocks (dashboard-*, auth-*), and --except <names...> leaves out components and everything that needs them. update skips files you have changed since the CLI wrote them; update --force and add --force overwrite your copies, so commit customized components first. After update, migrate rewrites your own pages for template API changes (--dry-run to only show them, --yes to skip the prompt). add dashboard-01 or add dashboard-02 also makes the dashboard the default layout and builds its sidebar links from your pages. remove deletes a layout block's file from Components/Layout/ and lists the files that still use it, such as Routes.razor.

• README
• CLI reference
• Release notes

MIT