Skeleton goes well beyond a component library - providing an extensive solution for designing, theming, and implementing complex web interfaces at scale. Fully enabling both new or experience developers, using familiar Tailwind concepts and modern component paradigms.
Why Skeleton
Design System
At its core, a design system is a set of building blocks that standarizes the look and feel of your products and user experiences. This offers uniform language and structured framework to support you and your team. A good design system can greatly reduce amount of time spent recreating elements and redefining patterns while building products and user interfaces at scale.
Figma UI Kit
Skeleton provides access to a powerful Figma UI Kit to assist designers in drafting a visual concept of your upcoming projects.
Tailwind++
Skeleton fully embraces Tailwind and its powerful utility-based approach to styling, built around the Atomic Design Methodology. While also extending the capabilities in really meaningful ways, including not only themes but comprehensive systems for colors, typography, spacing, and more.
Theme System
Skeleton provides best in class support for themes and styling, including a full set of fully curated themes built-in, as well as a powerful but friendly theme generator for creating new themes that fully adhere to your unique branding and design.
Framework Agnostic
Skeleton’s best features are fully framework agnostic, requiring only a single depedency - Tailwind. This provides the full design system, themes, and more for nearly any web-based application.
Components
Skeleton also provides a suite of powerful UI components that full adapt to your theme stytem. Providing complex functionality and handling local state management. We currently provide support for React and Svelte, with plans to expand to all popular UI frameworks in the future.
Open Source
Skeleton is free and open-source software (FOSS) provided under the MIT License.
The Community
Skeleton has a thriving community of users and contributors. Available on both GitHub and Discord.
Updates
Skeleton has maintained a set release cadence for its entire lifecycle, providing new updates every two weeks. See our changelog to see what’s been added recently.
Contributing
If you’re interesting in helping, please see see our Contribution Guidelines.
Get Started
Ready to get started? Check out our comprehensive installation guides or start learning the fundamentals.