If you’ve ever wanted shadcn-like composition in Laravel and ended up with React in a Blade app (or a paste tree of components you now own forever), that’s the gap Slate fills.
Slate (electrik/slate) is a shadcn-inspired Blade UI kit: anonymous components, Tailwind CSS v4, owned design tokens, dark mode, Livewire-aware forms. One Composer package. No npx add. No React.
Status: 3.x is alpha (3.0.0-alpha.4). The surface is there; we’re hardening a11y and polish before stable. Fine to try, expect edges.
Why Blade, not another React port
Most “Laravel UI” answers today are either:
