0build
Frontend design system of CSS and web components, delivered from a CDN and built on UIkit.
0build is a frontend design system of CSS classes and web components, formerly called Franken UI. Its documentation describes a kit of components built on UIkit, with the look of shadcn/ui and coss/ui, plus a set of utility classes for one-off adjustments. Components are plain HTML elements and classes, so a page uses them without a build step.
It loads from a CDN: stylesheets and scripts are linked from the page, and everything runs in the visitor’s browser. The maintainer moved the project off npm for that reason, as the release notes explain. The old repositories and websites stay online as they were.
Worth knowing
The project is a single maintainer’s work and is still numbered below 1.0. The release notes record breaking changes between 0.x versions, such as renamed display classes and a changed shorthand syntax.
Identity
- Status
- Active
- Maintainer
- 0build4
- Maintained by
- Individual5
- First release
- 20243
Rendering and deploy
- Runs as
- In the browser7
- Install with
- cdn57
Adoption
- GitHub stars
- 302
Sources
- 2026-10-27: links, Categories
0build.dev/docs/latest/kit/introduction/ - 2026-10-27: links, Written in, License, License model, GitHub stars
github.com/0builddotdev/0build - 2026-10-27: First release
registry.npmjs.org/franken-ui - 2026-10-27: Maintainer, License
raw.githubusercontent.com/0builddotdev/0build/master/LICENSE.md - 2026-10-27: Maintained by, Install with
0build.dev/docs/latest/kit/release-notes/ - 2026-10-27: Built on
cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/0builddotdev/0build@0.6.13/dist/js/uikit.min.js - 2026-10-27: Install with, Runs as
0build.dev/docs/latest/kit/installation/