Bookmarks

A living shelf of the tools, component libraries, galleries and references I keep coming back to — for design taste, frontend craft, and better engineering judgment.

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shadcn/ui

Copy-paste React components built on Radix + Tailwind. The gold standard.

ReactTailwind

Base UI

Unstyled, accessible primitives from the Radix and MUI teams.

HeadlessReact

Radix UI

Low-level accessible components that power half the ecosystem.

HeadlessA11y

Headless UI

Unstyled components from the Tailwind team for React and Vue.

HeadlessTailwind

React Aria

Adobe's hooks for building accessible components from scratch.

A11yHooks

Ark UI

Headless components powered by state machines, framework-agnostic.

HeadlessMulti-framework

Park UI

Beautiful styled components built on Ark UI and Panda CSS.

StyledArk

Mantine

Full-featured React library with 120+ components and hooks.

ReactFull-kit

Chakra UI

Simple, modular and accessible component library for React.

ReactStyled

Material UI

The most popular React UI framework, Material Design out of the box.

ReactMaterial

HeroUI

Beautiful, fast and modern React UI (formerly NextUI).

ReactTailwind

daisyUI

Tailwind CSS component classes with semantic names and themes.

TailwindCSS

Flowbite

Open-source Tailwind components and blocks for many frameworks.

TailwindBlocks

Ant Design

An enterprise-class React UI design language and components.

ReactEnterprise

Tremor

React components to build charts and dashboards fast.

ReactDashboards

Tailwind Plus

The official premium component and template library for Tailwind.

TailwindPremium

HyperUI

Free open-source Tailwind components and templates.

TailwindFree

Preline UI

Tailwind component library with hundreds of examples.

TailwindComponents

Origin UI

Beautiful Tailwind + React components to copy and paste.

ReactTailwind

Kokonut UI

Animated shadcn-style components for modern apps.

ReactAnimated

Mobbin

Massive library of real product UI flows and screens.

ProductFlows

Godly

Astronomically good web design inspiration, tightly curated.

WebCurated

Land-book

A giant, filterable gallery of landing pages.

LandingGallery

Awwwards

The awards site for the boldest, most experimental web work.

WebAwards

SiteInspire

Clean, well-tagged showcase of quality web design.

WebCurated

Httpster

Fresh inspiration for current, no-nonsense web design.

WebTrends

Lapa Ninja

Landing page inspiration plus free design books and resources.

LandingResources

Refero

Searchable design references from real apps and websites.

ProductSearch

Screenlane

Weekly hand-picked mobile and web UI inspiration.

MobileUI

Minimal Gallery

A showcase for beautifully minimal website design.

MinimalWeb

Curated.design

A curated directory of design resources and inspiration.

DirectoryCurated

Dribbble

The huge community feed of design shots and concepts.

CommunityShots

Behance

Adobe's portfolio network for full design case studies.

PortfolioCase studies

One Page Love

The best of single-page website design.

LandingOne-page

Page Flows

Real product user flows captured as video.

FlowsProduct

Design Vault

Categorized UI screenshots from top products.

PatternsUI

Motion

The animation library for React (Framer Motion) and the web.

ReactAnimation

GSAP

The industry-standard JavaScript animation toolkit, now free.

JSTimeline

Aceternity UI

Flashy, motion-heavy React + Tailwind components to copy.

ReactEffects

Magic UI

150+ animated components for design-engineers.

ReactAnimated

React Bits

Animated React components and creative UI snippets.

ReactSnippets

Motion Primitives

Reusable motion components built on Motion and Tailwind.

ReactMotion

Cult UI

Shadcn-style components with extra motion and polish.

ReactShadcn

Rive

Design and ship interactive, state-driven animations.

VectorInteractive

LottieFiles

Lightweight, scalable JSON animations for any platform.

LottieAssets

Spline

Design 3D and interactive scenes for the web.

3DInteractive

Theatre.js

Animation tooling for JavaScript with a visual editor.

JSEditor

Lucide

The clean, consistent icon set this site uses.

IconsSVG

Heroicons

Hand-crafted SVG icons from the Tailwind team.

IconsTailwind

Phosphor Icons

A flexible icon family with six weights.

IconsWeights

Tabler Icons

Over 5,000 free MIT-licensed SVG icons.

IconsFree

Iconify

One framework, 200,000+ icons from every popular set.

IconsUniversal

SVGL

A big library of brand and product logos as SVG.

LogosSVG

unDraw

Open-source illustrations you can recolor to your brand.

IllustrationFree

Reshot

Free icons and illustrations with no attribution required.

AssetsFree

Iconoir

A huge, fully open-source and free icon library.

IconsOpen

Remix Icon

A neutral-style system icon set, carefully crafted.

IconsSystem

Simple Icons

SVG icons for popular brands, free to use.

BrandsSVG

Font Awesome

The web's original and largest icon toolkit.

IconsClassic

Icons8

Icons, illustrations and photos in one consistent place.

IconsAssets

Lordicon

A large library of beautifully animated icons.

IconsAnimated

Streamline

One of the largest icon and illustration libraries.

IconsHuge

Typewolf

Typography inspiration and real-world font pairings.

TypePairings

Fontshare

Quality fonts, free for personal and commercial use.

FontsFree

Google Fonts

The open font library everyone starts with.

FontsFree

Fontsource

Self-host open-source fonts via npm, no CDN needed.

FontsSelf-host

Coolors

The fast palette generator I use to explore color.

ColorPalette

Realtime Colors

Preview a palette on a real UI before committing.

ColorPreview

Happy Hues

Curated palettes shown in context, with usage roles.

ColorCurated

UI Colors

Generate Tailwind CSS color shades from any hex.

ColorTailwind

OKLCH Picker

Pick perceptually-uniform colors in the OKLCH space.

ColorOKLCH

Type Scale

Build a modular type scale and copy the CSS.

TypeScale

Fontpair

Beautiful Google Font pairings, ready to use.

FontsPairings

Adobe Color

Build palettes and extract color themes from images.

ColorPalette

Color Hunt

A curated, endless feed of color palettes.

ColorCurated

Tailwind CSS

The utility-first CSS framework docs I check constantly.

CSSDocs

Can I Use

Browser support tables for every web platform feature.

BrowserSupport

Josh W. Comeau

Some of the best interactive CSS and React writing online.

CSSLearning

CSS-Tricks

The long-running archive of CSS techniques and guides.

CSSReference

cubic-bezier

Craft and preview custom easing curves visually.

EasingCSS

Easings.net

A cheat sheet of easing functions with previews.

EasingReference

Shadows Brumm

Generate smooth, layered, realistic box-shadows.

ShadowGenerator

Fancy Border Radius

Visual generator for organic border-radius shapes.

CSSGenerator

Haikei

Generate SVG blobs, waves and backgrounds.

SVGBackgrounds

Get Waves

Make custom SVG wave dividers in seconds.

SVGWaves

Open Props

Supercharged CSS custom properties for design tokens.

CSSTokens

Animate.css

A library of ready-to-use CSS animation classes.

CSSAnimation

The Pragmatic Engineer

Deep writing on engineering teams, systems and the industry.

CareerSystems

Martin Fowler

Evergreen writing on patterns, refactoring and architecture.

PatternsArchitecture

System Design Primer

The classic open resource for distributed systems.

System DesignOpen

patterns.dev

Modern web app design, rendering and performance patterns.

PatternsWeb

Refactoring Guru

Design patterns and refactoring explained clearly.

PatternsRefactoring

web.dev

Google's guidance on modern, fast, resilient web apps.

WebPerformance

MDN Web Docs

The definitive reference for the web platform.

DocsReference

Kent C. Dodds

Practical React, testing and JavaScript articles.

ReactTesting

ByteByteGo

System design explained with clear visuals.

System DesignVisual

Julia Evans

Approachable deep-dives and zines on how systems work.

SystemsZines

overreacted

Dan Abramov on React and JavaScript internals.

ReactDeep-dive

Bundlephobia

Check the true cost of an npm package before adding it.

PerfAudit

Excalidraw

Hand-drawn-style whiteboarding for flows and architecture.

DiagramSketch

tldraw

An infinite canvas and a slick diagramming SDK.

CanvasDiagram

JSON Crack

Visualize JSON, YAML and more as interactive graphs.

JSONVisual

RegExr

Build, test and understand regular expressions live.

RegexTool

Transform

Convert between JSON, TS, GraphQL and dozens of formats.

ConvertTool

ray.so

Turn code snippets into beautiful shareable images.

CodeImages

Carbon

The original create-and-share images of source code.

CodeImages

Squoosh

Compress and convert images right in the browser.

ImagesOptimize

DevDocs

Fast, unified, searchable API documentation browser.

DocsReference

StackBlitz

Instant full-stack IDE running in the browser.

IDESandbox

CodePen

The front-end playground and community for quick demos.

PlaygroundDemos

Hero Patterns

Repeatable SVG background patterns, tweakable in-browser.

SVGPatterns

CSS Gradient

A simple, powerful tool for building CSS gradients.

GradientCSS

Mesh Gradient

Generate lush, animated mesh gradients.

GradientMesh

Blobmaker

Make organic SVG blob shapes for backgrounds.

SVGShapes

Shape Divider

Custom SVG section dividers, copy-paste ready.

SVGDividers

Glassmorphism

Generate frosted-glass CSS with live preview.

CSSGlass

Neumorphism.io

Soft-UI shadow generator for the neumorphic look.

CSSShadow

Animista

Play with a big catalog of ready CSS animations.

CSSAnimation

roadmap.sh

Community roadmaps for every developer path.

RoadmapGuide

JavaScript.info

The modern JavaScript tutorial, from basics to advanced.

JavaScriptTutorial

Total TypeScript

Matt Pocock's deep, practical TypeScript material.

TypeScriptCourse

web.dev Learn

Google's structured courses on CSS, HTML and more.

WebCourses

The Odin Project

A full, free, open-source web dev curriculum.

CurriculumFree

freeCodeCamp

Free coding certifications and thousands of tutorials.

FreePractice

Frontend Masters

In-depth video courses from top engineers.

CoursesVideo

v0

Generate and iterate on UI from a prompt, by Vercel.

UIGenerate

Claude

Anthropic's assistant — my go-to for coding and writing.

AssistantCoding

ChatGPT

The all-purpose assistant for quick answers and drafts.

AssistantGeneral

Perplexity

An AI answer engine that cites its sources.

SearchResearch

Midjourney

Best-in-class AI image generation for concepts.

ImagesGenerate

Ideogram

AI image generation that actually renders text well.

ImagesText

Krea

Real-time AI image and video generation.

ImagesRealtime

Recraft

AI built for vectors, icons and brand-consistent art.

VectorBrand

Unsplash

The go-to source for high-quality free photos.

PhotosFree

Pexels

Free stock photos and videos, generously licensed.

PhotosVideo

Pixabay

Free images, vectors, video and music.

MediaFree

Lummi

AI-curated, genuinely useful free stock imagery.

PhotosAI

Blush

Customizable illustrations you can mix and recolor.

IllustrationCustom

DrawKit

Hand-crafted illustrations, icons and mockups.

IllustrationIcons

Open Peeps

A hand-drawn illustration library of people.

PeopleFree

Pattern Monster

A big collection of customizable SVG patterns.

SVGPatterns

Humaaans

Mix-and-match illustrations of people.

PeopleIllustration

Vercel

The platform I deploy nearly every project to.

HostingFrontend

Netlify

Fast static and serverless hosting with great DX.

HostingServerless

Railway

Deploy databases and services with almost no config.

HostingBackend

Render

Unified hosting for web services, cron and databases.

HostingPaaS

Fly.io

Run full apps close to your users, globally.

HostingEdge

Neon

Serverless Postgres with branching.

DatabasePostgres

Turso

Edge-hosted SQLite for low-latency reads.

DatabaseEdge

Clerk

Drop-in authentication and user management.

AuthUsers

Resend

A clean email API built for developers.

EmailAPI

Brittany Chiang

A widely-copied, beautifully restrained dev portfolio.

PortfolioDev

Lee Robinson

Clean personal site and writing from a Next.js lead.

PortfolioNext.js

Rauno Freiberg

Interface craft and interaction details, done right.

CraftInterfaces

Paco Coursey

Minimal design engineering and open-source UI.

Design EngMinimal

Emil Kowalski

Thoughtful writing on animation and interface design.

AnimationWriting

Delba

Interactive articles on React and web development.

ReactInteractive

Adam Argyle

Modern CSS experiments from a Chrome CSS advocate.

CSSExperiments

Cassidy Williams

Dev newsletter, blog and endlessly useful snippets.

BlogNewsletter