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Chai Builder is an AI-enabled, open-source low-code visual builder for React and Tailwind CSS that allows developers and non-technical users to create web pages through intuitive drag-and-drop interactions.
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About Chai Builder
This innovative platform integrates seamlessly with React applications, uses Tailwind CSS for styling, supports custom block rendering, and provides a simple React component for embedding the builder directly into existing applications. The visual page building interface enables rapid web page development without extensive coding, making it possible for designers, product managers, and other team members to contribute to UI development while developers maintain control over component libraries and design systems.
Perfect for agencies building client websites quickly, SaaS platforms offering customizable user-facing pages, marketing teams needing landing page flexibility without developer bottlenecks, or any project where visual development accelerates iteration cycles and enables non-technical stakeholders to participate in UI creation. As a community-driven, extensible platform with a Next.js starter project and live demo at chaibuilder-sdk.vercel.app, Chai Builder demonstrates how low-code tools can enhance rather than replace traditional development workflows, providing a bridge between visual design tools and production-ready React applications while maintaining code quality and customization capabilities.
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Free, open source, and ready to ship.
Clone the repo, install dependencies, and start customising. Chai Builder is free and open source: its license is in the repository.
- Clone the Chai Builder repository from GitHub.
- Run
npm installorpnpm installto install all required packages. - Run
npm run devto start the development server and begin customizing. - Check the repository’s README and license before you ship.
Terminal
$ git clone https://github.com/chaibuilder/sdk $ cd sdk $ npm install $ npm run dev
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FAQ
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Everything you need to know before you ship with Chai Builder.
Chai Builder is an AI-enabled, open-source low-code visual builder for React and Tailwind CSS that allows developers and non-technical users to create web pages through intuitive drag-and-drop interactions. It is an open source template in the shadcn.io collection of 215.
Chai Builder is made by Chaibuilder, an independent developer; shadcn.io lists it but did not make it. Chaibuilder has 1 template in the collection, and the author's page lists them.
The listing tags Chai Builder with React, Vite and Tailwind. Those are its categories, not a dependency list: the exact packages and versions are in the repository's package.json.
Yes. The Chai Builder page embeds its live demo from chaibuilder.com, and links to it so you can open the real deployment before you clone.
The Chai Builder listing was last updated on October 8, 2025. That date is the listing's, not the repository's: check the repository's commits for recent activity.
Clone the repository (git clone https://github.com/chaibuilder/sdk), then follow the README. The Chai Builder page shows the usual steps and a terminal block with the commands to copy.
Install dependencies with npm install or pnpm install, then run npm run dev. The README in the Chai Builder repository says which package manager and environment variables it needs.
No. Chai Builder is cloned from its own GitHub repository, so shadcn.io isn't involved. Browsing the page and its live demo need no account either; Pro adds the premium templates, the blocks and the MCP server.
Follow the deployment notes in the Chai Builder README: the right host depends on its framework and any services it needs. The page's categories show what it is built for.
The Chai Builder listing doesn't record a license. Check the LICENSE file in its repository (https://github.com/chaibuilder/sdk), and ask the author if there isn't one.
That depends on Chai Builder's license in its repository, which shadcn.io does not set. Read the LICENSE file before you use it in a client or paid project, and ask the author if it is unclear.
Attribution follows Chai Builder's license. Many permissive licenses ask you to keep the copyright notice and license text in your copy; its LICENSE file says exactly what.
No. The Pro license covers shadcn.io's own Pro code, blocks and premium templates. Chai Builder is the author's project, under the terms in its repository.
Chaibuilder supports Chai Builder, through its GitHub repository: read the docs, open an issue or look for discussions. shadcn.io does not maintain it.
Yes. Once you clone it, Chai Builder is your own code: change the theme, add pages and connect your backend. It uses shadcn/ui, so you can also add more components the same way.
Yes. Components are free with a free account and the blocks are in Pro; both are copied into your project with the shadcn CLI. Check that Chai Builder uses Tailwind CSS and the shadcn/ui setup (a components.json) before you add them, and pick the base library your project already uses.
Yes, with Pro. The shadcn.io MCP server's search_templates tool finds templates by what they are, and returns each one's repository and live demo, so your editor can set up Chai Builder for you. Your files stay on your machine.
The collection has 19 other open source Vite templates like Chai Builder, shown at the foot of its page with the ones sharing most categories first. All of them are at /template/category/vite.
Chaibuilder has no other templates in the collection.
Yes. The 14 premium templates (Solaris, Reframe Labs, Spherule and Max and more) are built by shadcn.io and come with every Pro plan, if you want maintained code with a design file.
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