HeroUI or shadcn

regarding theos new video on styling

Would love to hear people's thoughts on HeroUI. He mentioned "you can just style things yourself", but for a small team, I feel that might not make sense when you don't want to spend limited resources on styling and adding functionality/props to primitive components.

am someone leading a tech team migrating from MUI and deciding if we should be using heroui or shadcn

Zougui•4/6/25, 7:29 AM

If MUI does the job and you have no issues or anything then you don't need to migrate from it.
If you have issues with MUI that you won't have with heroui or shadcn you gotta weigh them, make a list of pros and cons of keeping it, pros and cons of migrating from it, and then decide if the issues you have with it are worth the effort

jakeleventhalOP•4/6/25, 12:04 PM

i do have mui issues. namely that it's ugly and requires a large bespoke theme kit that creates tech debt to maintain

jakeleventhalOP•4/6/25, 12:05 PM

also mui basically client work with RSC for another 12+ months

Raky•4/6/25, 7:53 PM

Shadcn