Show HN: Cladd – React UI kit for editors, dashboards, and dense app UIs

Category: library

Tags: react-ui-kit, design-system, dashboard-components

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 7, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

Cladd is an opinionated React UI kit designed for building dense application interfaces like editors, dashboards, and internal tools. It features a unique surface system with auto-bumping depth levels, a consistent sizing scale, and controlled overlays via hooks, offering a cohesive design system out of the box. The project is interesting because it targets the underserved niche of 'app-shell' UIs with a dark-first, practical approach, already adopted by several real products.

Target audience: frontend devs, ui engineers, fullstack devs

Repository: https://cladd.io/ · TypeScript · MIT · 18 stars

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