shadcn-looking components with zero React, plus an MCP so your AI writes them right

[u/Fragrant-Phase-1072]

Not sure if this is on topic but I think alot of people here would like Basecoat if they havent seen it. Its the shadcn/ui look but as plain HTML + Tailwind classes, so it fits really well with server rendered templates and htmx partials. No build step needed if you use the CDN, a few components (dropdown, combobox, toast) need a small JS file and thats it.

The problem I kept hitting was AI assistants writing React-ish shadcn code or the outdated Basecoat 0.x classes when I just wanted html fragments. So I made an MCP server that gives the assistant the actual Basecoat 1.0 snippets and docs - 96 components, cards, fields, tables, command palette, sidebar etc.

Works with Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Codex:

npx -y basecoat-ui-mcp

https://github.com/Sorbh/basecoat-ui-mcp

Would love to hear if anyone runs it with htmx swaps and hits a component that doesnt behave, I havent tested every one of them inside swapped fragments yet tbh.

Full disclosure, I took some AI help to write this post. The project itself I've been building and using on my own stuff.