Digital Garden Templates

1 digital garden template built with shadcn/ui and Tailwind CSS: linked notes and articles for developers who publish as they learn. A template can be in several categories, so a Digital Garden template can also be listed under another.

1 template by 1 developer: 1 open source. The collection has 229 templates in all.

They are most often listed with Blog, Next.js, React and Tailwind. Those categories are linked at the foot of this page.

The collection is for shadcn/ui: each Digital Garden template was listed because it uses shadcn/ui components. Its repository shows the exact setup, such as a components.json and the Tailwind CSS version.

Digital Garden templates are complete apps or sites you clone or download; blocks are single sections you add to an app you already have. Use a template to start a project and blocks to extend it.

The browser on this page searches the 1 Digital Garden template by name, author or category and orders them by featured, name or newest. The address keeps the choice.

Among the open source ones, Digital Garden lead the list. Open each live demo before you clone one.

1 of the 1 Digital Garden template list a live demo and 1 link a GitHub repository. Each template page embeds the demo when it has one.

Digital Garden has the latest listing date among the open source ones, October 8, 2025. Choose Newest in the browser to order Digital Garden templates by that date. The date is the listing's, not the repository's.

Thedevdavid has the most, 1 template. Each name links to the author's page.

1 developer built the 1 Digital Garden template. The open source ones are independent projects on GitHub.

Open the author's page from the list on this category page: it shows their templates in every category, and which technologies they use. /template/authors lists all 187.

None of the Digital Garden templates are by shadcn.io: they are community projects, which their own authors maintain.

The 1 open source one is free to clone from GitHub, each under its own license.

None. All 1 Digital Garden template here are open source; the 14 premium templates are listed under /template.

For the open source ones, it depends on each repository's license, which shadcn.io doesn't set: read the LICENSE file first.

No. Browsing Digital Garden templates and trying their live demos needs no account, and an open source template is cloned from GitHub. Only the premium templates, the blocks and the MCP server need Pro.

Open a template and its GitHub link, then run git clone, npm install and npm run dev. Each repository's README has the exact steps.

Yes. Blocks and components are React code you copy with the shadcn CLI, so they fit a Digital Garden template that uses Tailwind CSS and shadcn/ui. Components are free with a free account, and the blocks are in Pro.

Yes, with Pro. The shadcn.io MCP server's search_templates tool finds templates by what they are, so you can ask your editor for a Digital Garden template and get its repository and live demo.

Yes. The clone is your code: change the theme, add pages and connect your backend. How you deploy a Digital Garden template depends on the template's own framework and services, so follow its README.