Building a Modern Burn-Rate Calculator with shadcn/ui and React
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solidifydev
10mo ago· 3 min readen
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Summary
The article details the author's journey of building a modern burn-rate calculator using shadcn/ui, React, Zod, and Recharts. It highlights the benefits of shadcn/ui, such as accessibility, composability, and readiness for interaction patterns, and explains the choice of tools for the project.
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Enter shadcn/ui, which wraps Radix Primitives, offering components that are accessible by default, composable without fighting styles, and ready for interaction patterns.
Hey there! Pull up a chair. I wanted to create a tool to see my cashflow clearly, so I set out to...
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