@codelitdev/design-system

Shared tokens, Tailwind preset, and React primitives for CourseLit, MediaLit, SendLit, and FrontLit.

The tokens + Tailwind preset are the product; the React components are reference/fallback (see step 5). Consuming apps typically use only the CSS and the preset and keep their own shadcn components.

Install

Published to npm as a public package. The current release line is a prerelease under the alpha dist-tag.

[!WARNING] latest currently also points at 0.1.0-alpha.0. npm always sets latest on a package's first-ever publish, regardless of --tag — this is unavoidable until a real stable version is cut, at which point publishing it moves latest forward automatically. Until then, always pin the exact version — do not bun add @codelitdev/design-system bare, and do not use a caret/tilde range (^0.1.0-alpha.0 would still resolve to a prerelease, which is at least explicit — but a bare install with no version silently means "whatever latest is," which right now is this alpha).

bun add @codelitdev/[email protected]

Platform examples consume the package as workspace:*. Product repositories consume an exact published version.

Use in a shadcn app

1. Import the token layer once, e.g. in app/globals.css:

@import "@codelitdev/design-system/styles.css";

This replaces the default shadcn :root/.dark block — variable names match, so existing shadcn components need no code changes.

2. Extend your Tailwind config:

// tailwind.config.js
const codelitPreset = require("@codelitdev/design-system/tailwind-preset");
module.exports = {
  presets: [codelitPreset],
  content: [...],
};

3. Scope the product on the <html> element (not <body>):

<html data-product="sendlit">  {/* courselit | medialit | sendlit | frontlit, omit for CodeLit amber */}

[!IMPORTANT] Put data-product on <html>, not <body>. The product scope only overrides --primary/--ring; any token you alias at :root that references --primary (e.g. shadcn's --sidebar-primary: var(--primary)) resolves that var() at the declaring element. If the override sits on <body> (a child of :root), those :root aliases freeze to the base amber and never pick up the product accent — while direct bg-primary utilities still turn green, producing a confusing split.

4. Fonts: load Hanken Grotesk + Spline Sans Mono via next/font/google (or your framework's font loader), mapped to --font-sans / --font-mono.

5. Components — install from the shadcn registry (see Components below). These are real shadcn/Radix components styled to the design system, so your app's buttons/badges/cards are the DS's — no hand-porting. The plain-React src/components/ classes (components.css) remain as visual reference only.

6. Logos: @codelitdev/design-system/assets/logo-<product>.svg.

7. Loaders — a drawn-from-the-logo spinner, not a static asset:

import { Loader } from "@codelitdev/design-system";
<Loader product="sendlit" size={32} />

Renders in currentColor, same as an icon component — wrap it (or an ancestor) in whatever sets the color you want, e.g. className="text-primary" for the product accent.

Components (shadcn registry)

The design system ships its components as a shadcn registry so every product installs the same styled components (buttons, badges, cards, …) via the shadcn CLI — keeping all four apps on one component layer instead of each re-styling its own. They're standard shadcn/Radix components; they pull their look from the DS tokens, so make sure @codelitdev/design-system/styles.css is imported (above).

Add the registry namespace to your app's components.json:

{
  "registries": {
    "@codelit": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codelitdev/platform/main/packages/design-system/public/r/{name}.json"
  }
}

Then install components like any other shadcn component:

bunx shadcn@latest add @codelit/button @codelit/badge @codelit/card

Or install a single component directly by URL, no config:

bunx shadcn@latest add https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codelitdev/platform/main/packages/design-system/public/r/button.json

Available components

Install everything at once:

bunx shadcn@latest add @codelit/button @codelit/icon-button @codelit/badge @codelit/card \
  @codelit/input @codelit/textarea @codelit/label @codelit/checkbox @codelit/radio-group \
  @codelit/switch @codelit/select @codelit/tabs @codelit/dialog @codelit/dropdown-menu \
  @codelit/tooltip @codelit/toast

Maintainers: component sources live in registry/codelit/ui/. After changing one, rebuild the served JSON with bun run registry:build (→ public/r/*.json) and commit it — the raw-URL install serves those committed files.

Publishing

Prereleases go under the alpha dist-tag so a plain bun add never grabs one. Releases are driven from the Platform root through Changesets; do not run bun publish from this package directory:

bun run changeset
bun run release:alpha

Verify: bun info @codelitdev/design-system --json should show the prerelease under alpha and leave latest untouched.

License

Apache-2.0 — see LICENSE.