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Measured entry

8bitcn-social-proof3

carouselskeuomorphismmotion on file

A client-side testimonial carousel styled like an arcade interface, with pixel-bordered cards, text ratings, badges, and arrow controls. It ships as a shadcn registry block alongside retro card, badge, button, carousel, and CSS pieces, and relies on React, Tailwind utilities, Embla, Radix UI, class variance helpers, and class-merging utilities.

Specimen
Motion capture of the mounted demo, recorded by the harness. No audio track.
Harness screenshot of 8bitcn-social-proof3 at 375 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 375 pixels wide. This viewport scrolled sideways.
Harness screenshot of 8bitcn-social-proof3 at 768 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 768 pixels wide. This viewport scrolled sideways.
Harness screenshot of 8bitcn-social-proof3 at 1440 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 1440 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.

Measured

Every value below was written by the harness on the run that produced the frames above. None of it is derived from the prose.

Harness measurements recorded for 8bitcn-social-proof3
BuildOK
MountOK
Console errors0
Uncaught page errors0
Horizontal overflowflagged at 375, 768
Axe critical0
Axe serious0
Axe moderate0
Axe minor0
Gzip marginal43.1 KB (108.5 KB build, 65.4 KB baseline)
Bare modeFAIL
Provider requiredNO
Demo usedwritten from the component source API

What the harness recorded

BARE BUILD

✗ Build failed in 1.07s
error during build:
[vite]: Rollup failed to resolve import "class-variance-authority" from "<sandbox>re-07b39a271950/src/components/ui/8bit/badge.tsx".

Verdict

A coherent, working retro carousel with editable content and no detected accessibility violations. It is a good thematic choice for arcade-like products, but the narrow-layout clipping is a release blocker until the outer spacing and off-canvas controls are corrected.

Use it if

  • You want a swipeable review section for a game, developer tool, or intentionally retro product.
  • Your project already uses shadcn conventions and can absorb the included retro wrappers and theme tokens.
  • You need editable testimonial data, optional badges, ratings, and keyboard-operable carousel controls.

Skip it if

  • Your design system calls for neutral typography or polished editorial testimonials rather than a pixel-art voice.
  • You need a drop-in section that is already contained on phone and tablet layouts, since the verified render clips horizontally there.
  • You want to avoid adding Embla and a small family of shadcn-derived primitives for one social-proof section.

Install

Installation record for 8bitcn-social-proof3
Declared dependenciesradix-ui, embla-carousel-react, clsx, tailwind-merge
Missing on installnone
Bare installfails once the shadcn-style helpers are removed, so it needs that setup
Providerno provider required in the harness

A non-shadcn project must add Tailwind and the expected path aliases, a cn class-merging helper, compatible button, badge, and card primitives, Embla carousel support, Radix UI, class variance helpers, clsx, and tailwind-merge. Copy the retro stylesheet, wire the theme color tokens, and allow or self-host its pixel font.

Source and credit

This page is a review, not a copy. The component source lives with its author and this site does not republish it. Read the license before you use anything.

Author repository

github.com/TheOrcDev/8bitcn-ui
License
MIT
Record published
2026-08-15

Alternatives

Other published entries for the carousel pattern, ordered by what they measured: mounts first, then clean axe scans, then bare-mode passes, then the smaller bundle.