Measured entry

originui-comp-85

buttonminimal-flat

A compact ghost-style back button with a Lucide left-arrow icon that shifts on hover. It ships as a shadcn registry component and composes the shared Button primitive, so it inherits that primitive's Radix Slot, variant helper, utility function, and Tailwind theme setup.

Specimen
Harness screenshot of originui-comp-85 at 375 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 375 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of originui-comp-85 at 768 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 768 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of originui-comp-85 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 originui-comp-85
BuildOK
MountOK
Console errors0
Uncaught page errors0
Horizontal overflowclean at 375, 768, 1440
Axe critical0
Axe serious0
Axe moderate0
Axe minor0
Gzip marginal14.6 KB (80.0 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 4.50s
error during build:
[vite]: Rollup failed to resolve import "class-variance-authority" from "<sandbox>/src/components/ui/button.tsx".

Verdict

A sensible, focused back-action treatment with clean semantics and a modest hover cue. It mounts cleanly in its intended environment, but it needs a shadcn-style setup and is not a drop-in component for a bare React project.

Use it if

  • You need a restrained back action for a header, detail view, or nested workflow.
  • Your app already uses the matching shadcn Button primitive and utility conventions.
  • You want the whole control to remain a semantic button while keeping the arrow decorative.

Skip it if

  • Your navigation requires a real link and you do not plan to render the Button primitive through its child-slot option.
  • Your project does not use Tailwind theme tokens or shadcn-style component utilities.
  • You need a standalone button with no shared primitive or icon-library dependencies.

Install

Installation record for originui-comp-85
Declared dependenciesradix-ui
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 Lucide React, Radix UI, class-variance-authority, a compatible Button primitive, the cn class-merging utility, Tailwind styles and theme tokens, then replace the registry import alias with your local path.

Source and credit

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License
MIT
Record published
2026-08-13

Alternatives

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