Measured entry

neobrutalism-dropdown-menu

dropdownbrutalism

A React and TypeScript dropdown menu shipped as a shadcn registry component. It wraps Radix Dropdown Menu primitives with neobrutalist Tailwind classes and includes items, nested menus, checkbox and radio choices, labels, separators, and shortcuts. It depends on Radix, React, Lucide icons, a cn helper, and project theme utilities.

Specimen
Harness screenshot of neobrutalism-dropdown-menu at 375 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 375 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of neobrutalism-dropdown-menu at 768 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 768 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of neobrutalism-dropdown-menu 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-dropdown-menu
BuildOK
MountOK
Console errors0
Uncaught page errors0
Horizontal overflowclean at 375, 768, 1440
Axe critical0
Axe serious0
Axe moderate0
Axe minor0
Gzip marginal58.5 KB (123.9 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 37.07s
error during build:
[vite:load-fallback] Could not load <sandbox>/src/lib/utils (imported by src/cut/components/ui/dropdown-menu.tsx): ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '<sandbox>/src/lib/utils'

Verdict

A capable, complete dropdown foundation with sound Radix behavior and clean harness results. It is not a drop-in standalone file: the bare mount fails, so it needs a shadcn-style setup with aliases, utilities, and theme classes in place.

Use it if

  • You need an accessible action menu with keyboard behavior delegated to Radix.
  • Your interface already uses the neobrutalism theme tokens and matching rounded, bordered controls.
  • You need nested menus, selectable items, or shortcut labels from one component module.

Skip it if

  • Your project does not use Tailwind or cannot adopt the component's custom theme tokens.
  • You want a lightweight native menu and do not need the full Radix interaction model.
  • Your design system requires understated surfaces rather than thick borders and high-contrast focus states.

Install

Installation record for neobrutalism-dropdown-menu
Declared dependencies@radix-ui/react-dropdown-menu
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, install the Radix dropdown package and Lucide React, add the cn class-merging helper, configure the source alias, and define the Tailwind theme tokens and animation utilities referenced by the component. Ensure the file is compiled as a client-side React component.

Source and credit

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License
MIT
Record published
2026-08-14

Alternatives

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