Apr 21 • Chat 💬
21st.dev is LITERALLY the NPM for design engineers and you're MISSING OUT
Listen up - I've been diving into this UNDEFEATED new platform that's changing the game for UI development and if you're building interfaces you need to pay attention RIGHT NOW
21st.dev just dropped and it's a straight-up REVOLUTION for design engineers... think NPM but specifically built for UI components 🔥
Why you should care (like, yesterday)
Look - your design workflow is probably broken. You're wasting HOURS coding the same components over and over when you could be leveraging what the community's already built.
Massive library of ready-to-use React components (minimal, modern, GORGEOUS)
Templates that save you days of work
Magic MCP - their NEW AI-powered feature that generates components from plain English
Direct integration with VSCode, Cursor, and other IDE powerhouses
Let's talk about Magic MCP for a sec
This isn't your average AI code generator that spits out buggy trash...
Magic MCP is a NO-BRAINER game changer. It doesn't start from scratch - it pulls from a curated library of pre-built components that ACTUALLY WORK.
You just describe what you need in normal human language and BOOM - you've got premium UI components ready to customize.
And it plugs directly into your IDE! Stop context switching, start stacking value.
The tech stack is ELITE
These folks aren't playing around:
React + Next.js foundation
Tailwind CSS for styling (chef's kiss)
Radix UI for accessibility
TypeScript throughout
Supabase backend
Cloudflare R2 storage
This isn't some weekend project... it's a SERIOUS platform built by engineers who get what we need.
The biz model makes sense
They've got a smart two-sided approach:
Premium component marketplace (think quality not quantity)
Tiered pricing for Magic MCP with different usage limits
Revenue sharing with component creators
Which means both users AND creators get value... sustainability isn't an afterthought.
Why this matters RIGHT NOW
Look at your current workflow...
How much time did you waste last week recreating UI elements that probably already exist? How many hours debugging your custom dropdown when you could've grabbed a battle-tested one?
The community's growing FAST... Discord is active, GitHub contributions are flowing, and the quality standards are HIGH.
Stop reading, start stacking.
(And if you're creating components that are fire, consider contributing - there's revenue sharing potential and you'll build your design engineering cred)
This is just the beginning...
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21st.dev is LITERALLY the NPM for design engineers and you're MISSING OUT
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