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shadcn/designer

React component primitives for building canvas-based design and visual editing tools

From the Xiry library · Updated 10 October 2026

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shadcn/designer provides composable React primitives for creating full-featured visual editors like Canva or Framer. It handles complex canvas mechanics like infinite scrolling, zoom, layer trees, history, and transform handles while letting developers style everything via Tailwind CSS. Instead of building canvas architecture from scratch, teams can assemble ready-made panes, toolbars, and custom layer types.

What it's for

  • Build a custom visual editor or graphic design tool inside a web application
  • Create an AI image generation canvas with custom layers and prompt controls
  • Add interactive diagramming or banner editing capabilities to a SaaS product

Features

  • Composable canvas primitives including Designer, DesignerContent, and DesignerCanvas
  • Interactive layer tree with selection, drag-and-drop, resize, and rotation handles
  • State management hooks for layer manipulation, undo/redo history, and viewport zoom
  • Support for custom layer types, image filters, font browsing, and cropping
  • Tailwind CSS styling integration with customizable CSS variables
  • Performance optimizations for smooth rendering with hundreds of layers

Pricing

Paid. $1,499/year for an unlimited products business license with 1 month Slack support

Details

Type
Web app
Category
Development
Topic
UI Components
Open source
No
Platforms
Code library, Web
For
React frontend developers building design tools, canvas apps, or visual editors
Alternative to
Fabric.js, Konva.js, Tldraw
Tags
react, canvas, design tools, shadcn, ui components, tailwind

Why it was saved

  • @dnaijatechguy, 14 July 2025: A full ready-made set of composable, performant, developer-friendly components covering canvas, layer management, toolbars, panels and export — a huge shortcut for anyone building a visual editor.

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