Acknowledgements & Licenses
The libraries and tools that inspired DuneUI
Acknowledgements
shadcn/ui
As mentioned in the introduction, DuneUI is based on shadcn/ui. The majority of the styling and component structures were lifted as-is from shadcn/ui.
Although DuneUI is inspired by and based on shadcn/ui, it does not follow its core principle.
You see, shadcn/ui is not a traditional library that you reference, but rather it copies the source code for all components into your project, allowing you to "own" and extend the components as you please. It is really a component distribution system that allows you to install the source code for components from various sources (called registries) into your own application.
DuneUI is just a traditional component library that you reference via a NuGet package. However, it is based on the shadcn/ui styling which has two main advantages:
- It provided a starting point for beautiful CSS styling for the various components. This saved me a lot of time during the development as I could, for the most part, simply copy the styles from the shadcn/ui components and did not have to wrestle with creating the styles myself.
- Since it is based on the shadcn/ui styles, you can tap into the shadcn/ui theming system and override any of the variables to create your custom themes. You can also use theme variables from websites such as tweakcn.
Tailwind CSS
Like shadcn/ui, DuneUI in built on top of Tailwind CSS. Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework that provides a set of pre-designed classes, like flex, pt-4, and text-center, that can be composed directly in your HTML to rapidly build custom user interfaces without writing custom CSS.
Alpine.js
DuneUI Pro uses Alpine.js. Alpine.js is a minimal, rugged JavaScript framework for composing behavior directly into your HTML, offering the reactivity and declarative approach of larger frameworks like Vue or React, but with a much smaller footprint.
Artisan UI
Artisan UI is a component library that brings shadcn/ui to Laravel - it is basically for Laravel what DuneUI hopes to be for ASP.NET Core. Like DuneUI, it uses TailwindCSS and Alpine.js. DuneUI uses their Alpine.js code as the starting point for many of the interactive components that are available in DuneUI Pro. This code has since been modified to fit with the DuneUI way of doing things.
Lucide
Lucide is an open-source icon library and is used by DuneUI in the dui-icon Tag Helper as well as some other Tag Helpers.
Tabler Icons
Tabler Icons is a set of over 5900 free MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons for you to use in your web projects.
TailwindMerge.NET
TailwindMerge.NET is a library that allows you to merge TailwindCSS classes from multiple sources without style conflicts.
Fumadocs
This website you are reading now is built using Fumadocs. Fumadocs is a React-based framework that allows you to rapidly create documentation websites. It saved me a lot of time by giving me a solid framework and a beautiful website design.
Other UI libraries
In the course of building DuneUI and researched many other UI libraries for inspiration and some of them may have influenced some of the design decisions I made.
- Mantine - a UI library for React.
- Flux - a UI library for Laravel Livewire using Tailwind CSS.
- Pinemix - a UI library based on Tailwind CSS and Alpine.js.
- Penguin - a UI library based on Tailwind CSS and Alpine.js.
- Pines UI - a UI library based on Tailwind CSS and Alpine.js.
- Bits UI - a headless UI library for Svelte.
- Sailboat UI - a UI library based on Tailwind CSS.
- Flowbite - a UI library based on Tailwind CSS.
License
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2025 Jerrie Pelser
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Third-Party Licenses
shadcn/ui
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2023 shadcn
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Tailwind
MIT License
Copyright (c) Tailwind Labs, Inc.
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Artisan UI
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) Marvellous Ifezue ifezueyoung@gmail.com
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TailwindMerge.NET
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2024 desmondinho
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Lucide
ISC License
Copyright (c) for portions of Lucide are held by Cole Bemis 2013-2023 as part of Feather (MIT). All other copyright (c) for Lucide are held by Lucide Contributors 2025.
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The MIT License (MIT) (for portions derived from Feather)
Copyright (c) 2013-2023 Cole Bemis
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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Tabler Icons
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2020-2026 Paweł Kuna
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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