@shieldcn
Promising 85/100 · #28 of 342 scoredBeautiful README badges as a service. A shields.io alternative with the visual quality of shadcn/ui. Drop-in SVG badge components for npm, GitHub, Discord, and more.
@shieldcn is a shadcn UI community registry. Its source repository is jal-co/shieldcn
, which has 913 GitHub stars, 39 forks and 9 contributors. The last commit was 2d ago (53 commits in the last 90 days).
The latest release is v1.1.0. It scores 85/100 on Sealambda's maturity index, placing it
in the Promising tier.
Maturity breakdown
last commit 3d ago · 53 commits/90d · solo maintainer
913★ · 39 forks
9 contributors · bus factor 1 · 2 watching
18/24 issues closed (75%)
MIT · 85% health files
Repository facts
- 913
- Stars
- 39
- Forks
- 9
- Contributors
- 1
- Bus factor
- 6
- Open issues
- 18
- Closed issues
- 53
- Commits (90d)
- TypeScript
- Language
- MIT
- License
- v1.1.0
- Latest version
- 2
- Releases
- 2d ago
- Last commit
License, pricing and purpose
- License
- MIT · ✓ OSI-approved
- Permissive: Use, change and redistribute freely, keeping the notice.
- Access
- FOSS
- An OSI-approved or FSF-libre license, and everything offered is free.
- Purpose
- Shieldcn provides shadcn/ui-styled README badges, charts, banners, and widgets for open-source repositories and markdown files.
- Commercial model
- Free
- Everything the project offers is free to use, with no paid tier. Donations and sponsorships do not count as paid.
- Tied to a service
- No
- Yes when the components are a client for a commercial API or service.
- Scope
- Domain-specific
- Focused on one problem area, such as charts, AI chat, an editor, a status page or payments; an app adds it for that feature only.
- Domains
- Docs & content, Charts, Icons & logos
- Docs & content: Documentation sites, blogs and content rendering. Charts: Charts, graphs and data visualization. Icons & logos: Icon sets, brand logos and SVG assets.
- Design
- Vanilla shadcn
- Looks like default shadcn/ui: the same shapes, spacing, borders and neutral palette, at most with another accent color.
Evidence
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“Free and open source.”
commercial · homepage ↗ -
“shieldcn makes that first impression count: badges, charts, headers, and sponsor walls, rendered as real shadcn/ui components. A shields.io alternative.”
scope · readme ↗ -
“Charts, too Shadcn-styled star history, lifetime commit history, issues over time, npm downloads, and your own JSON data”
domains · homepage ↗ -
“Beautiful GitHub README badges and charts styled as shadcn/ui”
design · homepage ↗
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Install
Add components from this registry with the shadcn CLI (configure the registry URL in your
components.json):
pnpm dlx shadcn@latest add @shieldcn/[component]
endpoint: https://shieldcn.dev/r/{name}.json
Embed the maturity badge
Add a live maturity badge to your README:
[](https://shadcn.sealambda.com/registry/shieldcn/)