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Slate brings shadcn-style UI components to Laravel Blade without React

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Slate (electrik/slate) is an open-source Blade UI kit for Laravel that draws inspiration from shadcn, offering component-based design without requiring React or Vue. It uses Tailwind CSS v4, anonymous Blade components, owned design tokens, and includes first-class dark mode and Livewire-compatible forms. Unlike copy-paste CLI kits or heavy admin frameworks, Slate is installed as a single Composer package and does not dump files into the application. The kit also ships with an MCP server and llms.txt to help AI coding agents work accurately within Laravel-Blade projects. Currently in alpha (v3.0.0-alpha.4), Slate is available on Packagist and GitHub under the MIT license.

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