Measured entry

shadcn-block-sidebar-13

sidebarminimal-flat

A React client block that places a settings sidebar inside a controlled dialog, with breadcrumb context and a scrollable content pane. It ships through the shadcn registry and composes the shadcn sidebar, dialog, breadcrumb, and button primitives, backed by Radix UI, class-variance-authority, Lucide icons, Tailwind utilities, and the project utility helper.

Specimen
Harness screenshot of shadcn-block-sidebar-13 at 375 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 375 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of shadcn-block-sidebar-13 at 768 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 768 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of shadcn-block-sidebar-13 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-13
BuildOK
MountOK
Console errors0
Uncaught page errors0
Horizontal overflowclean at 375, 768, 1440
Axe critical0
Axe serious0
Axe moderate0
Axe minor0
Gzip marginal59.4 KB (124.8 KB build, 65.4 KB baseline)
Bare modeFAIL
Provider requiredNO
Demo usednone

What the harness recorded

BARE BUILD

✗ Build failed in 28.70s
error during build:
[vite:load-fallback] Could not load <sandbox>/src/lib/utils (imported by src/components/ui/button.tsx): ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '<sandbox>/src/lib/utils'

Verdict

A credible starting point for desktop-oriented settings in a modal, with clean harness behavior and sensible primitive composition. It needs a shadcn-style setup and does not mount in a bare project; teams must also design mobile category navigation and replace the static demo state.

Use it if

  • You need a settings or preferences experience that stays inside a modal rather than taking over a full route.
  • Your app already uses the shadcn component conventions and can reuse its sidebar, dialog, breadcrumb, and button primitives.
  • A desktop navigation rail that hides on narrower screens matches the intended information architecture.

Skip it if

  • Mobile users must retain direct access to every settings category, since this block hides the category sidebar without supplying a replacement picker.
  • You need working category navigation out of the box, because the supplied links are placeholders and the active item is static.
  • Bundle restraint is a priority and your project does not already carry the underlying shadcn and icon dependencies.
  • Your settings flow needs a permanent route, deep links, or browser history rather than dialog-local state.

Install

Installation record for shadcn-block-sidebar-13
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 with the expected theme tokens, the shadcn utility helper that provides the class-name merge function, the registry sidebar, dialog, breadcrumb, and button components, and their Radix UI, class-variance-authority, and Lucide React dependencies. Configure the source alias used by the imports, then replace registry paths with local component paths.

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.