Using Forui À La Shadcn/ui
Take full ownership of Forui's behavior and layout by editing widget source directly.
This approach is only recommended for advanced users. Consider using the built-in styling system and CLI instead.
Shadcn/ui popularized copying component source into your project and editing it directly.
You can do the same with Forui using dart pub unpack.
Unlike shadcn/ui, which is a thin styling layer over headless components, Forui is fully self-contained. Unpacking gives you ownership of everything, including accessibility, gesture handling and layout, not just styling.
In practice, this means more fine-grained control at the cost of a greater maintenance burden.
This approach is best suited for building your own tailored design system using Forui as a base.
Unpacking
To unpack Forui's source locally, run:
dart pub unpack forui -o <output>Then depend on the local copy in your pubspec.yaml:
dependencies:
forui:
path: <output>Consider setting up a Dart workspace to manage the unpacked package alongside your main project.