Digital Garden

Digital Garden is an open-source blog and digital garden template designed specifically for developers who create content and want to share their thoughts and ideas with the world. It is an open source template in the shadcn.io collection of 215.

Digital Garden is made by Thedevdavid, an independent developer; shadcn.io lists it but did not make it. Thedevdavid has 1 template in the collection, and the author's page lists them.

The listing tags Digital Garden with Next.js, React, Tailwind, Blog, Digital Garden and Templates & Themes. Those are its categories, not a dependency list: the exact packages and versions are in the repository's package.json.

Yes. The Digital Garden page embeds its live demo from thedevdavid-digital-garden.vercel.app, and links to it so you can open the real deployment before you clone.

The Digital Garden 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/thedevdavid/digital-garden), then follow the README. The Digital Garden 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 Digital Garden repository says which package manager and environment variables it needs.

No. Digital Garden 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.

Digital Garden is tagged Next.js, so it deploys wherever a Next.js app does, such as Vercel, a Node.js server or a container. Its README may add steps for its own services.

The Digital Garden listing doesn't record a license. Check the LICENSE file in its repository (https://github.com/thedevdavid/digital-garden), and ask the author if there isn't one.

That depends on Digital Garden'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 Digital Garden'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. Digital Garden is the author's project, under the terms in its repository.

Thedevdavid supports Digital Garden, 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, Digital Garden 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 Digital Garden 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 Digital Garden for you. Your files stay on your machine.

The collection has 14 other open source Templates & Themes templates like Digital Garden, shown at the foot of its page with the ones sharing most categories first. All of them are at /template/category/templates-and-themes.

Thedevdavid 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.