UI Documentation

Find out more about Umbraco UI Library, UI API and Storybook.

UI Library and UI API

With the UI Library, you get a collection of visual building blocks that consists of pieces to build any UI in Umbraco. Each component is a building block updating its display according to the data passed to it.

With the UI API, you get a set of collections related to modules export, interfaces, and hierarchy. This includes code examples and much more that you can use to extend the backoffice.

Backoffice UI Library

See, test, and get a feel for the familiar backoffice components built using the new UI components.

Backoffice UI API

See what all of the modules export, interfaces, hierarchy, code examples, and much more.

UI Library Storybook

The Umbraco UI Library is a set of web components that can be used to build Umbraco User Interfaces. The UI Library separates the user interface from Umbraco’s business logic and creates a unified user experience. This is done with coherent styling and naming, across all the Umbraco platforms and projects including the ones developed by you.

Storybook is an application that gathers all the components together of the UI Library. It holds the documentation for the components and showcases different use case scenarios. You can explore all the components through stories reflecting their use cases.

Each story has interactive controls that allow you to change the state of the component in real time. Every publicly available property is editable in Storybook, so you can test out custom configurations and use cases.

You can also change the stylesheet of custom properties to see how the component will look like. Every story has a code example that you can copy and paste into your project. This will allow you to implement the components in your own packages and extensions.

Import UI Library Components

You can also work with the components on a code level. If you want to do so here is how you import it:

import { UUIButtonElement } from '@umbraco-cms/backoffice/external/uui';

This requires that your Package has the @umbraco-cms/backoffice dependency.

For more information on installation or included components, see the Readme file in the Github project.

UI Icons

The icons from the Umbraco backoffice are based on Lucide Icons. The syntax for getting the icons starts withicon-. You can find the list of all icons in the Icon registry list on Github.