Measured entry

ruixen-breadcrumb-icon

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A client-side React breadcrumb distributed as a shadcn registry component. It renders optional Lucide icons, chevron separators, and a hover-tracking highlight, with Tailwind utility classes and a project-local cn helper backed by clsx and tailwind-merge.

Specimen
Harness screenshot of ruixen-breadcrumb-icon at 375 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 375 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of ruixen-breadcrumb-icon at 768 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 768 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of ruixen-breadcrumb-icon 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 ruixen-breadcrumb-icon
BuildOK
MountOK
Console errors0
Uncaught page errors0
Horizontal overflowclean at 375, 768, 1440
Axe critical0
Axe serious2
Axe moderate1
Axe minor0
Gzip marginal31.4 KB (96.9 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 1m 12s
error during build:
[vite:load-fallback] Could not load <sandbox>/src/lib/utils (imported by src/cut/components/ruixen/breadcrumb-icon.tsx): ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '<sandbox>/src/lib/utils'

Verdict

Visually useful and stable across the tested layouts, but not ready to ship unchanged because its icon-only links and list structure trigger serious accessibility findings. It also needs a shadcn-style setup to build.

Use it if

  • You want an icon-assisted breadcrumb whose intermediate items are ordinary anchor links.
  • Your app already uses Tailwind and a shadcn-style cn utility.
  • You can correct its list semantics and accessible naming before release.

Skip it if

  • You need an accessible icon-only mode out of the box, because its links lose their discernible names.
  • You require valid list markup without modification, because the animated highlight is a direct non-list child of the ordered list.
  • You expect the hover highlight to provide equivalent keyboard-focus feedback.
  • You need the final breadcrumb item to remain clickable, since the component always renders it as the current-page span.

Install

Installation record for ruixen-breadcrumb-icon
Declared dependencieslucide-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

In a non-shadcn project, add Tailwind, Lucide React, clsx, and tailwind-merge, then provide the expected cn utility or replace its alias import with your own class-merging helper. Also ensure the client-component directive fits your framework.

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.

Alternatives

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