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geist-org/geist-ui

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TLDR

A community-built React component library that gives your web app Vercel's clean, minimal look with ready-made buttons, inputs, cards, and modals, not an official Vercel product.

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    What it does
      React UI components
      Vercel-style design
    Components
      Buttons and inputs
      Cards and modals
      Navigation menus
    Setup
      npm install
      Provider wrapper
    Audience
      React developers
      Web app builders
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Add polished UI components like buttons, cards, and modals to a React app without designing them from scratch.

USE CASE 2

Build a dashboard or content viewer with a clean minimal aesthetic similar to Vercel's design system.

USE CASE 3

Wrap an existing React project with a provider component to get consistent theming and baseline styles instantly.

Tech stack

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Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min
MIT, use freely for any purpose, including commercial projects, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

In plain English

This repository is a community-built component library for React, styled after the clean, minimal visual design associated with Vercel (the cloud hosting company). The README notes clearly that this is not an official Vercel project and has no formal connection to the company. It originated as an effort to make that aesthetic available to anyone building React applications. React is a popular tool for building user interfaces for websites and web apps. A component library like this one provides ready-made building blocks such as buttons, input fields, cards, modals, and navigation menus that already look consistent and visually polished. Instead of building each element from scratch and writing all the styling yourself, you install the library and drop in the components you need. Installation is one command using npm or yarn, the standard package managers for JavaScript projects. After installing, you wrap your application in a provider component that handles theming and baseline styles, and then you can use any of the included UI pieces directly in your code. The library is distributed as an npm package under the name @geist-ui/core. The README links to a documentation site where the full component catalog and usage examples are available in both English and Chinese. A collection of showcase projects demonstrates how others have used the library in real applications, ranging from dashboards to content viewers. The project is open source under the MIT license and has participated in Hacktoberfest, an annual open-source contribution event, indicating it has an active contributor community.

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Prompt 1
I'm building a React app and want to use @geist-ui/core. Show me how to install it and wrap my app with the provider to enable theming.
Prompt 2
Using geist-ui, generate a dashboard layout with a navbar, sidebar cards, and a data table in React.
Prompt 3
I want to create a modal dialog with an input field and confirm button using @geist-ui/core, write the React component code.
Prompt 4
How do I switch between light and dark themes in @geist-ui/core dynamically based on user preference?
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