the worst part about being a front-end developer is developing uis which also happens to be 100% of the job web developers have tried to make things easier with countless UI libraries like bootstrap material and so on but recently Shad Cen the hottest UI framework in the front-end World recently released a major update that makes it way overpowered and it's nothing like you've ever seen before the only way I can think to describe it is like if Ruby on Rails and Skynet had a baby who grew up and got jacked on steroids and then got into
front-end web development when I started this channel back in 2017 my goal was to make tutorials like this Facebook style Emoji reaction thing the code for that video took the better part of a day but now I can build an even better one in like 30 seconds in today's video you'll learn how to build a custom front-end website faster than ever but with great power comes great trade-offs and we'll also look at the drawbacks of this approach it is September 5th 2024 and you're watching the code report last week I ran a pull about for
sale and thousands of people agree that it's the best for an incloud this video is not sponsored by them nor have they sponsored any of my past videos and that's why I can tell you that yesterday versell took a pretty big L when it was revealed that chat GPT switch from nextjs to remix despite that versell did make a really good move by hiring the developer behind Shad CN and now as we'll see it's tightly integrated into the versel ecosystem the Shaden is a component or UI library but it's a lot different than most other
libraries like bootstrap instead of installing a massive library of components into your node modules and importing them you copy and paste the code for each individual component into your own project which allows you to use things all a cart and makes it easier to customize the code it sounds chaotic but it's based on Primitives like radex and Tailwind which keep things looking consistent pretty cool but it's killer new feature landed in the CLI in the form of a component registry like you can run Shad Cen ad data table or Shaden ad Carousel to easily add
those components to your project and it works with all the major Frameworks but here's where things get really crazy versell also runs this service called vzer which is an AI chat bot for building UI like all you do is ask for a button and it'll return something that looks just as good as any a16z funded startup with a $100 million valuation if we look at the code though what you'll notice it's doing is relying on the existing Shad CN button it then AI generates some extra Tailwind slot and the end result is pretty nice that's
not the crazy part though if we click on this install button up here we'll have a command to Shad CN add this to our project it'll automatically copy that code into our project and bring in any necessary dependencies and now we have a cool custom button we can use anywhere and not just that but these URL can also be made public to be shared with anyone and you could even build up your own standard library of Shad Cen components if you drink the Shaden Kool-Aid and then combine it with other AI tools like co-pilot or
cursor you can build uis 10 times faster than you could just a few months ago and they actually look halfway decent the end result might look exactly the same as all your friend side projects but at least it didn't take you 6 months to build but the AI haters out there will tell you to never touch any of these tools they'll make your programming skills go flaccid and their garbage code will eventually backfire on you the but the reality is that just a few years ago you'd have to solve many of these problems by going
dumpster diving for code on blogs or humiliate yourself with a stack Overflow question but nowadays you have people building to-do apps in their Teslas in the Ikea parking lot the AI performance gains are real but they have to be used carefully and deliberately to avoid unnecessary complexity I don't think Tech like this will replace actual front-end developers but here's my prediction in the near future I think developers will care less about the ergonomics of a framework like the syntax differences between angular react View and spell and care about how quickly and reliably they can generate
stuff like I wouldn't be surprised if we see a prompt-based UI framework oh wait a minute it actually looks like someone already built that this has been the code report thanks for watching and I will see you in the next one
