What Is a Social Media Feed Block?
A social media feed is the scrolling heart of a community product: a stream of posts from many authors, each carrying its own media, reactions, and conversation. This block recreates that experience as a full page in Shadcn UI, with five distinct post types, text, image, video, poll, and Q&A, rendered as cards in a timeline.
Every post card includes the details users expect from a modern network: author avatar with verified badge, timestamp, like, comment, repost, and bookmark actions with live counters, and an overflow menu offering mute, unfollow, and report. At the top of the feed, a composer with a Textarea and type tabs lets users draft and publish a new post into the stream.
Products That Need a Feed
Beyond building an actual social network, this layout serves any product with user-generated activity. Community features inside SaaS tools, internal company networks, fan or creator platforms, and learning communities all reduce to the same feed mechanics. The poll post type alone makes it useful for engagement features in otherwise utilitarian apps.
It also pairs well with adjacent blocks: profile cards for the people behind the posts, and chat apps when the community needs private conversation alongside the public stream.
How the Feed Is Built
The page is a React client component. Likes, bookmarks, poll votes, composer input, and newly published posts all run on useState, so every interaction works in the demo without a backend. Post images render through the Next.js Image component, and icons come from lucide-react. The result is a large but readable file where each post type is a clear rendering branch you can trace and modify.
On the component side, the block composes Shadcn UI Card, Avatar, Badge, Button, Separator, and Textarea, plus a DropdownMenu for the per-post action menu. The same feed ships in React, Vuejs, and Svelte versions, the latter two built on the shadcn-vue and shadcn-svelte component ports.
Restyling the Feed
The feed's visual identity comes entirely from design tokens. Card surfaces, borders, muted timestamps, and accent colors on active states all read the CSS variables in globals.css, so a palette change in one file restyles every post type consistently. Dark mode is handled by the same tokens; when the dark class is active, the feed switches themes with no per-component overrides.
Interaction styling is equally token driven. The filled state of a like or bookmark, the poll result bars, and the verified badge all lean on primary and accent tokens rather than fixed colors, so they stay on brand after retheming.
Getting It Into Your Codebase
Use the shadcn CLI command displayed at the top of the example page, available for npm, pnpm, yarn, and bun, to install the block directly, or copy the source from the code tab. This is a pro block, so code access and CLI install come with the All Access plan described on the pricing page.
Production wiring means replacing the seeded post array with data from your API and turning the local state mutations into server calls: a like becomes a POST, a new post becomes an insert, poll votes hit an endpoint. Because the interaction logic is already written optimistically against local state, the upgrade path to real persistence is straightforward.