Introduction

This is not just a component library. It is how you design and scale your own system.

Traditional libraries give you prebuilt components, but they often break down when you need to adapt them to your brand, add missing functionality, or integrate with advanced workflows. You end up forcing overrides, duplicating patterns, or mixing tools that don’t fit together.

Dalim solves this by giving you a foundation to design, build, and share consistent components with ease. It is built around the following principles:

• Open Code: The component code is transparent and modifiable.
• Composition: A unified API that makes components predictable and extendable.
• Distribution: A schema and CLI for sharing and installing design systems.
• Beautiful Defaults: Clean, minimal styles that look great immediately.
• AI-Ready: Structured code for LLMs to understand, improve, and extend.

Open Code

Dalim provides you with the actual component code, not locked packages. You control every layer, from styling to logic. This enables:

• Transparency: No hidden complexity — you see and own the code.
• Customization: Change, extend, or refine components without hacks.
• AI Integration: Dalim’s open structure makes it easy for AI tools to analyze and suggest improvements.

In most libraries, editing a button’s behavior means hacks and overrides. With Dalim, you directly edit the code, so it fits your needs perfectly.

Composition

Every Dalim component follows a composable structure. If a component doesn’t exist, we create it, make it composable, and align it with your system.

A consistent API means no re-learning for every new piece. Your team — and even AI assistants — always know how components behave.

Distribution

Dalim is also a distribution toolkit for design systems. It defines a schema and provides CLI utilities to make components reusable across projects.

• Schema: A flat-file structure defining dependencies, props, and usage.
• CLI: Install, share, or sync your design system across multiple projects with ease.

This schema can even guide AI in generating new components that match your existing system.

Beautiful Defaults

Dalim ships with a curated set of components styled to look clean and professional out of the box:

• Ready to Use: Get a polished look instantly without extra setup.
• Unified Aesthetic: Every component aligns with the system’s design rules.
• Simple to Extend: When you need changes, you can easily refine the defaults.

AI-Ready

The structure of Dalim is designed for AI-native workflows. Open code and predictable APIs make it easy for AI to read, refactor, and extend your design system.

An AI can understand your system, suggest improvements, and even generate new components that seamlessly integrate with your design rules.