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hextaui-menubar

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A shadcn registry component that wraps Radix Menubar primitives in styled React and TypeScript building blocks for triggers, nested menus, selectable items, labels, separators, and shortcuts. It relies on Radix Menubar, Lucide icons, Tailwind utility classes, theme tokens, and a local class-name helper.

Specimen
Harness screenshot of hextaui-menubar at 375 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 375 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of hextaui-menubar at 768 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 768 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of hextaui-menubar 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 hextaui-menubar
BuildOK
MountOK
Console errors0
Uncaught page errors0
Horizontal overflowclean at 375, 768, 1440
Axe critical0
Axe serious0
Axe moderate0
Axe minor0
Gzip marginal59.6 KB (125.0 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 1m 1s
error during build:
[vite:load-fallback] Could not load <sandbox>/src/lib/utils (imported by src/cut/components/ui/menubar.tsx): ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '<sandbox>/src/lib/utils'

Verdict

A solid choice for shadcn-based application menus: it builds, mounts, avoids viewport overflow, and exposes the useful Radix variants. It needs a shadcn-style setup because the bare project cannot resolve its local utility import.

Use it if

  • You need an application-style menu bar with nested commands, checkbox items, radio choices, and keyboard behavior.
  • Your project already follows shadcn conventions for Tailwind theme tokens, import aliases, and the local class-name helper.
  • You want composable primitives whose labels, commands, shortcuts, and menu structure remain under your control.

Skip it if

  • You need a responsive site navigation header with links, branding, and a mobile drawer rather than a desktop-style command menu.
  • Your project does not use Tailwind or shadcn theme conventions and you do not want to translate the supplied utility classes.
  • You want a ready-made menu populated with product-specific actions rather than primitives that require composition.

Install

Installation record for hextaui-menubar
Declared dependencies@radix-ui/react-menubar
Missing on installnone
Bare installfails once the shadcn-style helpers are removed, so it needs that setup
Providerno provider required in the harness

In a non-shadcn project, add Radix Menubar and Lucide React, provide Tailwind with the referenced theme tokens and animation utilities, create the local class-name merge helper, configure its import alias or rewrite that import, and preserve the client-component boundary where required.

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/preetsuthar17/HextaUI
License
MIT
Record published
2026-08-14

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