dotcn

Simple CLI tool to install shadcn compatible components and manage shadcn compatible UI libraries such as magic-ui, aceternity-ui, hexta-ui, and more.

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Table of Contents

• Features

• Usage

• Examples

• Local Development

• Roadmap

• Contributing

• License

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Features

• 📦 Install shadcn-compatible components from multiple UI libraries with just one single command, no more dealing with long URLS.
• 🛠️ Supports libraries like magic-ui, aceternity-ui, hexta-ui, kib-ui, and more
• 🧩 Extensible registry system
• 📝 TypeScript support

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Usage

1. First initalize dotcn in your project.

Important

Make sure that you initialize dotcn in the same directory as components.json,

pnpm dlx dotcn@latest init
# optionally you can specify a directory using -c or --cwd, by default it uses current directory.

2. Now add registries such as magic-ui aceternity-ui etc...
   For that you need two things :
   1. name will be used as unique identifier.
   2. URL of that registry where it's components are hosted.

pnpm dlx dotcn@latest registries add magic-ui https://magicui.design/r/

3. You can now add any component from magic-ui by just mentioning it's name,

pnpm dlx dotcn@latest add magic-ui marquee # adds the marquee component from magic-ui

4. Optionally you can mark magic-ui as default, so that you don't have to repeatedly specify it.

pnpm dlx dotcn@latest mark-default magic-ui

Then you can just:

pnpm dlx dotcn@latest add marquee

It will copy the marquee component into your project.

You no longer have to remember all those long URLs, just add any registry and then install it like dotcn add <registry> <component>

Available Commands

• init — Initalize a registries.json in your project.
• add — Add a component from registry
• registries — Manage registries (add, remove, list, mark-default, etc.)

Options

• --help — Show help for a command
• --version — Show CLI version

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Examples

Add a Component

dotcn add magic-ui marquee

Add a New Registry

dotcn registries add kibo-ui https://www.kibo-ui.com/registry/

Remove a Registry

dotcn registries remove magic-ui

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Local Development

1. Fork this Repo
2. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/atybdot/dotcn.git
cd dotcn

2. Install dependencies:

pnpm install
# or
npm install

3. change branch to your feature-title

git checkout -b <feature>

3. Run in development mode:

pnpm dev
# or
npm run dev

4. Build for production:

pnpm build
# or
npm run build

5. Lint & Format:

pnpm lint
pnpm format
pnpm check

6. Push Code to Github

git push origin <feature>

7. Open Pull Request

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Roadmap

• Add search command — Allow users to search famous registries (magic-ui, kib-ui, hexta-ui, etc.) directly from the CLI
• Add command to list installed registries
• Add import/export finctionality
• Refactor codebase — Improve developer experience and clean up code

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Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please open issues and pull requests to help improve dotcn.

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License

MIT © @atybdot