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creativetimofficial/ui

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TLDR

A collection of ready-made website sections and page blocks for Next.js, built on shadcn/ui and Tailwind CSS, covering marketing pages, app UI, and e-commerce layouts you can install and customize without starting from scratch.

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  root((Creative Tim UI))
    What it does
      Pre-built UI blocks
      Page assembly
      Customizable code
    Component types
      Marketing sections
      App UI panels
      E-commerce flows
      Web3 cards
    Tech
      Next.js
      React
      Tailwind CSS
      shadcn/ui
    Install
      CLI tool
      Single block or all
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Assemble a marketing landing page in minutes by combining pre-built hero sections, testimonial blocks, FAQ layouts, and footer designs from the component library.

USE CASE 2

Add a complete e-commerce flow to a Next.js project by installing the product listing, shopping cart, and checkout block components.

USE CASE 3

Drop in an account settings panel or billing screen into an existing app without building the layout from scratch.

USE CASE 4

Copy a specific UI block into your project and tweak its code freely since components live in your codebase, not a locked package.

Tech stack

TypeScriptReactNext.jsTailwind CSSshadcn/ui

Getting it running

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 30min

Requires an existing Next.js project with Tailwind CSS and shadcn/ui already initialized before adding components.

Free to use, modify, and distribute for any purpose including commercial use under the MIT license.

In plain English

Creative Tim UI is a library of pre-built website components and page sections for developers building modern web applications. It is built on top of shadcn/ui, which is itself a popular set of React components styled with Tailwind CSS. This project adds a larger collection of ready-made blocks and designs on that foundation so that you can assemble pages faster without designing each section from scratch. The library is aimed at Next.js projects. To use it, your project needs Node.js 18 or later, Tailwind CSS set up, and shadcn/ui initialized. Once those prerequisites are in place, you add components using a command-line tool. You can install everything at once with a single command, or pick individual components by name. The CLI handles wiring up the necessary dependencies automatically. The component collection covers a wide range of common website sections. On the application side, there are modals, account settings panels, and billing screens. On the marketing side, there are testimonial sections, contact forms, FAQ layouts, blog post grids, and footer designs. The library also includes ecommerce blocks for product listings, shopping carts, and checkout flows, as well as a small set of Web 3.0 card designs aimed at blockchain or crypto projects. All the blocks are described as customizable. Because they follow the shadcn/ui approach, the component code is copied directly into your project rather than sitting behind a package you cannot touch, which means you can modify any block to fit your specific design needs. The project is open-source under the MIT license. It draws on foundational work from shadcn/ui and Material Tailwind, and credits those projects alongside others for contributing to its design and documentation structure.

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Prompt 1
I'm using creativetimofficial/ui with Next.js and shadcn/ui. Show me the CLI commands to install the testimonial section block and the contact form block, then explain what files get added to my project and how to customize the color scheme.
Prompt 2
Using Creative Tim UI blocks in my Next.js 14 app, help me build a product listing page by combining the product grid block with a filtering sidebar block, and show me how to wire up the filter state.
Prompt 3
I want to use the Creative Tim UI billing screen block in my SaaS app. Help me adapt it to display a subscription plan list fetched from my API instead of the hardcoded placeholder data.
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