Why I Chose Mantine Over shadcn/ui for Every Dashboard Project

I've built around a dozen admin panels and dashboards in the last year. For the first few, I used shadcn/ui. It's excellent software. But I kept hitting the same friction: every dashboard needed tables with sorting and pagination, form validation, toast notifications, date pickers, and dark mode. Each time, I was installing 5-8 additional packages on top of shadcn's primitives and wiring them together myself. Then I tried Mantine. I haven't gone back for dashboard work since. This isn't a "shadcn bad" post. shadcn is the right choice for a lot of projects. But for dashboards specifically, Mantine saves me days of integration work per project. Here's why. Where shadcn Wins Let me be clear about what shadcn does well, because it does a lot well. Full control over markup and styling. Every component is copied into your project as source code. You own it completely. No fighting a library's abstractions when you need something custom. Tailwind-native. If your team already thinks in Tailwind