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bklit/bklit-ui

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TLDR

Open-source collection of React chart and utility components meant to be copied into your project and customized rather than installed as a locked design system.

Mindmap

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  root((bklit-ui))
    Inputs
      Source repo clone
      Component copy
    Outputs
      Chart components
      UI primitives
      Docs site
    Use Cases
      Drop in charts
      Customize components
      Browse docs
    Tech Stack
      Next.js
      React
      Tailwind
      Visx
      Motion

Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Copy a Visx-powered chart component into your Next.js app and customize the colours and labels.

USE CASE 2

Run the docs site locally to preview every component with its source.

USE CASE 3

Use the components as a starting point for a custom dashboard UI rather than adopting a finished design system.

USE CASE 4

Adopt the project's monorepo layout with Turborepo and pnpm for your own UI library.

Tech stack

Next.jsReactTailwindVisxMotionTypeScript

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min
MIT license. Free to use, modify, and redistribute including for commercial purposes, with attribution.

In plain English

Bklit UI is an open-source collection of chart and utility components for building web interfaces. The README is brief and describes it as a library you can copy into your project, customize, and extend, rather than a finished design system locked behind one look. It is aimed at developers who are already building with React and want ready-made charts and small UI pieces they can adapt. Getting started involves cloning the repo and running pnpm install, then changing into the apps/web folder and starting a local dev server. That web app is the documentation site, where the components are shown live. There is a hosted version of the same docs at ui.bklit.com. The repository is organized as a monorepo with two main parts: an apps/web folder that holds the documentation site, and a packages/ui folder that holds the actual component library. The project lists pnpm and Turborepo as the tools that tie the workspace together. The stack named in the README is Next.js 15 for the framework, React 19 for components, Tailwind CSS 4 for styling, Visx for charts, Motion for animation, Fumadocs for documentation, and Biome with Ultracite for linting. The license is MIT.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Clone bklit-ui and run the docs site locally with pnpm. Walk through the apps/web setup step by step.
Prompt 2
Copy the bklit-ui line chart component into my Next.js 15 dashboard and wire it to a real Postgres query result.
Prompt 3
Convert a bklit-ui Visx chart to use my own Tailwind colour tokens and Motion-based reveal animations.
Prompt 4
Compare bklit-ui vs shadcn/ui vs Tremor for charts in a 2026 Next.js admin app. Where does bklit-ui win?
Prompt 5
Set up the bklit-ui monorepo as a template for my own internal UI library with packages/ui and apps/web.
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