# shadcn/designer

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

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.

Website: https://ds.shadcn.com/

## What it is 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](https://xiry.app/topics/development.md)
- Topic: [UI Components](https://xiry.app/topics/development/ui-components.md)
- 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](https://x.com/dnaijatechguy/status/1944773407565824303): 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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Updated 10 October 2026. Page: https://xiry.app/resources/shadcn-designer

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