Radix UI
Radix Primitives is an open-source UI component library designed for building high-quality, accessible web applications and design systems with React.
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About Radix UI Primitives
It provides low-level, unstyled, and highly customizable components with a strong focus on accessibility, customization, and developer experience. Maintained by WorkOS, Radix UI serves as the foundational layer that powers shadcn/ui and many other popular component libraries.
The library offers primitives for common UI patterns like dialogs, dropdowns, popovers, and tooltips, all built with WAI-ARIA compliance to ensure screen reader support and keyboard navigation. Developers can use Radix Primitives as a complete foundation for their design system or incrementally adopt individual components, making it a flexible solution for teams building robust, inclusive user interfaces that meet modern accessibility standards while maintaining full styling control.
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Free, open source, and ready to ship.
Clone the repo, install dependencies, and start customising. Radix UI Primitives is free and open source: its license is in the repository.
- Clone the Radix UI Primitives 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/radix-ui/primitives $ cd primitives $ npm install $ npm run dev
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Everything you need to know before you ship with Radix UI Primitives.
Radix Primitives is an open-source UI component library designed for building high-quality, accessible web applications and design systems with React. It is an open source template in the shadcn.io collection of 215.
Radix UI Primitives is made by Radix ui, an independent developer; shadcn.io lists it but did not make it. Radix ui has 1 template in the collection, and the author's page lists them.
The listing tags Radix UI Primitives with React, Vite, Radix UI and UI Kits & Component Libraries. Those are its categories, not a dependency list: the exact packages and versions are in the repository's package.json.
Yes. The Radix UI Primitives page embeds its live demo from radix-ui.com/primitives, and links to it so you can open the real deployment before you clone.
The Radix UI Primitives 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/radix-ui/primitives), then follow the README. The Radix UI Primitives 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 Radix UI Primitives repository says which package manager and environment variables it needs.
No. Radix UI Primitives 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 Radix UI Primitives README: the right host depends on its framework and any services it needs. The page's categories show what it is built for.
The Radix UI Primitives listing doesn't record a license. Check the LICENSE file in its repository (https://github.com/radix-ui/primitives), and ask the author if there isn't one.
That depends on Radix UI Primitives'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 Radix UI Primitives'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. Radix UI Primitives is the author's project, under the terms in its repository.
Radix ui supports Radix UI Primitives, 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, Radix UI Primitives 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 Radix UI Primitives 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 Radix UI Primitives for you. Your files stay on your machine.
The collection has 19 other open source Vite templates like Radix UI Primitives, shown at the foot of its page with the ones sharing most categories first. All of them are at /template/category/vite.
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