# Skeleton (Design systems)

> Skeleton is a free, open-source design system built with React, Next.js and Svelte. Skeleton is an adaptive design system powered by Tailwind CSS. It has 6,069 GitHub stars and is released under the MIT license. A live demo is linked from this page.

Skeleton uses Tailwind CSS as the foundation for building adaptive design systems. Including turnkey components for your favorite web frameworks.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/skeletonlabs/skeleton |
| Built with | React, Next.js, Svelte, SvelteKit, Astro, Tailwind CSS, TypeScript |
| Live demo | https://skeleton.dev |
| GitHub template repository | no |
| GitHub stars | 6,069 |
| License | MIT |
| Language | TypeScript |
| Official | no |
| Category | Design systems |
| Latest release | @skeletonlabs/skeleton-svelte@5.0.1 (Aug 19, 2026) |
| Last commit | Aug 28, 2026 |

## Get started

### Copy with degit

```sh
npx degit skeletonlabs/skeleton my-ui
cd my-ui
npm install   # then run the dev script from the README
```

### Or clone with git

```sh
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/skeletonlabs/skeleton.git my-ui
```

Commercial use depends on the MIT license. Sources: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/creating-and-managing-repositories/creating-a-repository-from-a-template, https://github.com/Rich-Harris/degit

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