Measured entry

shadcn-block-sidebar-10

sidebarminimal-flat

A Notion-like dashboard shell with a collapsible sidebar, team switcher, favorites, nested workspaces, breadcrumbs, and a page-action popover. It ships as a shadcn registry block split across a page and client components, and depends on the shadcn sidebar stack, Radix UI, class-variance-authority, and Lucide icons.

Specimen
Harness screenshot of shadcn-block-sidebar-10 at 375 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 375 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of shadcn-block-sidebar-10 at 768 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 768 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of shadcn-block-sidebar-10 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 shadcn-block-sidebar-10
BuildOK
MountOK
Console errors0
Uncaught page errors0
Horizontal overflowclean at 375, 768, 1440
Axe critical1
Axe serious2
Axe moderate2
Axe minor0
Gzip marginal72.2 KB (137.6 KB build, 65.4 KB baseline)
Bare modeFAIL
Provider requiredNO
Demo usednone

What the harness recorded

BARE BUILD

✗ Build failed in 26.03s
error during build:
[vite:load-fallback] Could not load <sandbox>/src/lib/utils (imported by src/components/ui/breadcrumb.tsx): ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '<sandbox>/src/lib/utils'

Verdict

A capable starting shell for shadcn-based workspace apps, but not production-ready as shipped because several icon controls lack accessible names and the markup has list and landmark problems. It needs a shadcn-style setup, followed by an accessibility pass and replacement of placeholder behavior.

Use it if

  • You need a content-heavy workspace or knowledge-app shell with nested navigation.
  • Your app already uses shadcn conventions and can replace the sample links and data with real routing.
  • You want desktop and narrow-screen behavior packaged with menus, collapsible groups, and team switching.

Skip it if

  • You need an accessible production component without first labeling icon-only controls and repairing list and landmark structure.
  • Your project does not use Tailwind utilities, shadcn theme tokens, or path aliases and you want a drop-in component.
  • You only need a small navigation rail and do not want the added menu, popover, breadcrumb, and icon dependencies.

Install

Installation record for shadcn-block-sidebar-10
Declared dependenciesradix-ui, class-variance-authority, lucide-react
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 and the expected theme variables, configure the at-sign path alias, provide the shared lib/utils class-merging helper, install Radix UI, class-variance-authority, and Lucide React, then bring in the sidebar, breadcrumb, separator, popover, collapsible, dropdown-menu, and button primitives. Add accessible labels and correct the list and main-landmark nesting before release.

Source and credit

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Author repository

github.com/shadcn-ui/ui
License
MIT
Record published
2026-08-13

Alternatives

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