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A Year of Building With shadcn: 10 Patterns That Survived Production

Ten tactical shadcn/ui patterns that survived 12 months and 205 admin pages in production. Form schemas, DataTable columns as data, theme switching via CSS variables, Sheet+Dialog composition, server-side state, variant discipline, type-safe URLs, server-action pattern. Copy-pasteable, real code.

Hamed Pakdaman

August 2, 2026 · 11 min

Web Development shadcn/ui CMS

shadcn/ui Roadmap and Our CMS: How We Track Upstream Changes

shadcn ships 6-7 releases per month. Our CMS runs 51 components, 18 modified. The bi-weekly audit workflow that keeps our fork in sync with upstream without breaking — pin commits, track modifications, audit cadence, when to fork hard.

Hamed Pakdaman

August 2, 2026 · 9 min

Web Development shadcn/ui CMS

Why We Chose shadcn/ui Over Radix Themes for Our CMS Admin

Two years and 205 admin pages later: why shadcn/ui beat Radix Themes for a production CMS admin. The comparison most blog posts get wrong, the trade-offs we hit, when Radix Themes is the better pick.

Hamed Pakdaman

June 10, 2026 · 9 min

Web Development Technology

Markdown vs CMS for Docs: When Each One Wins (2026)

Markdown stacks (Docusaurus, Astro Starlight, Nextra) vs CMS stacks (Mintlify, GitBook, ReadMe). The deciding question for 2026 docs tooling is not features — it is who edits. Dev-only teams pick markdown. Teams with non-dev editors pick CMS. Real pricing, real trade-offs.

Hamed Pakdaman

June 9, 2026 · 9 min

Web Development Headless CMS

Cloudflare Pages vs Netlify vs Vercel for Headless CMS Front-ends (2026)

The hosting picker for headless CMS front-ends in 2026. Cloudflare Pages now wins on cost (unlimited bandwidth all tiers), Vercel still wins on Next.js DX (with a commercial-use ban on Hobby), Netlify got more expensive after April. Edge function performance compared, when each one fits.

Hamed Pakdaman

August 2, 2026 · 8 min

Web Development Headless CMS

Build an Astro Content Site with UnfoldCMS in 30 Minutes

Step-by-step tutorial: Astro 5 + UnfoldCMS via the Content Layer API. Type-safe build-time fetching, Cloudflare Pages free-tier deploy, 90% less JavaScript than the Next.js equivalent. 30 minutes from git clone to live.

Hamed Pakdaman

June 8, 2026 · 11 min

Web Development shadcn/ui CMS

Theming a shadcn CMS: 3 Themes from One Codebase

UnfoldCMS ships three production themes from one codebase via Tailwind v4 CSS variables. No build per theme, no duplicated components. Adding a fourth theme is one file. Architecture, migration cost, what doesn't theme well.

Hamed Pakdaman

July 11, 2026 · 8 min

Web Development shadcn/ui CMS

Customizing the shadcn Admin: Fork-and-Modify Beats Vendor Widgets

Vendor widget APIs limit what you can change in a CMS admin. A shadcn-based admin lets you fork any file and modify it like any code in your repo. Why fork-and-modify wins over 12 months, and where vendor widgets are still the right pick.

Hamed Pakdaman

July 9, 2026 · 9 min

Web Development shadcn/ui CMS

shadcn/ui in Production: 1 Year, 51 Components, 210 Admin Pages — Lessons

A year of building UnfoldCMS on shadcn/ui — 51 components, 210 admin pages, real customers. The architecture lessons that survived production: composition over configuration, owning the code, forms as primitives, tables as data.

Hamed Pakdaman

June 8, 2026 · 11 min

Web Development shadcn/ui CMS

Build a Blog CMS with Next.js + shadcn/ui in 30 Minutes

Step-by-step tutorial: spin up a working blog CMS with Next.js front-end and shadcn/ui admin in 30 minutes. No Docker, no cloud account, just PHP + Node + MySQL. Real admin (51 shadcn components, 205 pages), real public API.

Hamed Pakdaman

June 8, 2026 · 9 min

Web Development

Multi-Calendar Dates in Laravel: Jalali and Hijri with Carbon

How to handle Jalali (Solar Hijri) and Hijri (Islamic) calendars in a Laravel app using MultiCarbon — an open-source package that extends Carbon directly, so every Carbon method keeps working.

Hamed Pakdaman

June 1, 2026 · 8 min

CMS Web Development

I Tried Building a CMS on Filament — Here's What I'd Do Instead

I spent two months trying to build a CMS on top of FilamentPHP. Here's what I learned about the difference between admin-panel frameworks and CMSes.

Hamed Pakdaman

May 26, 2026 · 12 min