Beadbox: Native desktop app built with shadcn/ui + Tauri v2

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Beadbox is a native desktop GUI for the beads issue tracker. The entire UI is built on shadcn/ui components.

Stack: Next.js 16 (App Router) + React 19 + Radix UI + shadcn/ui + Tailwind CSS v4, wrapped in a Tauri v2 native shell.

shadcn/ui components we use heavily:

• Dialog and Sheet for the bead detail modal/panel
• Table for the issue list
• Badge for status/priority indicators
• Button, Input, Textarea for inline editing
• Select and DropdownMenu for filters
• Toast for notifications
• Tabs for view switching

The app ships as a ~160MB native binary (macOS, Linux, Windows). We bundle Node.js inside Tauri as a sidecar so the full Next.js server runs locally. No Electron, no cloud, no account needed.

How it's built: 8 AI coding agents work simultaneously on Beadbox, coordinated through beads itself. They claim issues, write code, push commits, and hand off to QA agents. The issue tracker tracks its own development in real-time. shadcn/ui components made it possible to move fast without building a custom design system.

Install: brew tap beadbox/cask && brew install --cask beadbox
Website: beadbox.app