Measured entry

neobrutalism-breadcrumb

breadcrumbbrutalism

A composable React breadcrumb shipped as a TypeScript shadcn registry item. It provides navigation, list, item, link, current-page, separator, and ellipsis primitives, with Tailwind theme classes, a local class-merging helper, Radix Slot for custom link elements, and Lucide icons.

Specimen
Harness screenshot of neobrutalism-breadcrumb at 375 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 375 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of neobrutalism-breadcrumb at 768 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 768 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of neobrutalism-breadcrumb 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 neobrutalism-breadcrumb
BuildOK
MountOK
Console errors0
Uncaught page errors0
Horizontal overflowclean at 375, 768, 1440
Axe critical0
Axe serious0
Axe moderate0
Axe minor0
Gzip marginal31.8 KB (97.3 KB build, 65.5 KB baseline)
Bare modeFAIL
Provider requiredNO
Demo usedwritten from the component source API

What the harness recorded

BARE BUILD

✗ Build failed in 718ms
error during build:
[vite]: Rollup failed to resolve import "lucide-react" from "<sandbox>re-e1ccc7504f78/src/cut/components/ui/breadcrumb.tsx".

Verdict

A dependable, accessible breadcrumb foundation that builds and mounts cleanly, including outside the full shadcn scaffold. Choose it for composability and router-link flexibility, but expect to supply route logic, overflow behavior, and most of the brutalist character yourself.

Use it if

  • You want breadcrumb primitives that can be assembled for routes of varying depth.
  • Your React interface already uses Tailwind utility classes and shadcn-style conventions.
  • You need links to support custom router components through child composition.
  • You want wrapping navigation that remains usable in narrow layouts.

Skip it if

  • You need an automatic breadcrumb generated from router state rather than a presentational primitive.
  • Your project avoids Tailwind theme tokens or path aliases and you do not want to adapt the source.
  • You need the ellipsis to open an overflow menu, since this component renders only a visual placeholder.
  • You want a distinctive brutalist treatment out of the box, since most of the visual identity comes from surrounding theme styles.

Install

Installation record for neobrutalism-breadcrumb
Declared dependencies@radix-ui/react-slot, 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

In a non-shadcn project, add React, Radix Slot, Lucide React, Tailwind CSS, and a local class-merging helper backed by clsx and tailwind-merge. Replace the source alias or configure it, and define the referenced foreground and font theme utilities.

Source and credit

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License
MIT
Record published
2026-08-16

Alternatives

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