shadcn init failing with an error

[kalcodes]

This may be because I'm behind a proxy, but the proxy environment variables have been exported correctly on my shell.

$ pnpm dlx shadcn init
✔ Select a component library › Radix
✔ Which preset would you like to use? › Nova


Something went wrong. Please check the error below for more details.
If the problem persists, please open an issue on GitHub.

request to https://ui.shadcn.com/init?base=radix&style=nova&baseColor=neutral&theme=neutral&iconLibrary=lucide&font=geist&rtl=false&menuAccent=subtle&menuColor=default&radius=default&template=vite&track=1 failed, reason: read ECONNRESET

You can also try a previous version to see if that works:
pnpm dlx shadcn@4.8.0 init

[Adit-Jain-srm]

This is almost certainly a corporate proxy/firewall issue. shadcn init makes HTTPS requests to ui.shadcn.com and the proxy environment variables (HTTP_PROXY/HTTPS_PROXY) don't always get picked up by all Node.js HTTP clients.

Try these fixes in order:

1. Use NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0 temporarily (if behind an SSL-inspecting proxy):

NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0 pnpm dlx shadcn init

2. Set the proxy explicitly for Node:

export NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS=/path/to/your/corporate-ca.pem
pnpm dlx shadcn init

3. Use --proxy flag with pnpm itself:

pnpm config set proxy http://your-proxy:port
pnpm config set https-proxy http://your-proxy:port
pnpm dlx shadcn init

4. If none of the above work, download the init payload manually:

curl -x http://your-proxy:port 'https://ui.shadcn.com/init?base=radix&style=nova&baseColor=neutral&theme=neutral&iconLibrary=lucide&font=geist&rtl=false' -o init.json

Then check what error curl gives — that'll tell you exactly what the proxy is blocking.

@kalcodes What does curl -I https://ui.shadcn.com return in your shell? That'll confirm if the proxy is passing HTTPS through correctly.

[kalcodes]

Thanks for you support!

After additional searching, I found out, I need to enable node's native proxy support with export NODE_USE_ENV_PROXY=1 environment variable. Since the proxy variables HTTP[S]_PROXY are already available all that's left to do was enable node's native support.

This works

$ export NODE_USE_ENV_PROXY=1
$ pnpm dlx shadcn init