Measured entry

tripled-animated-sidebar-shadcnui

sidebarminimal-flatmotion on file

A client-side React off-canvas navigation drawer with its own trigger, backdrop, local open state, and animated menu entrance. It ships as a shadcn registry component and uses Framer Motion, Lucide icons, Tailwind utilities, and shadcn-style color tokens; the menu labels and actions are fixed in the source.

Specimen
Motion capture of the mounted demo, recorded by the harness. No audio track.
Harness screenshot of tripled-animated-sidebar-shadcnui at 375 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 375 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of tripled-animated-sidebar-shadcnui at 768 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 768 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of tripled-animated-sidebar-shadcnui 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 tripled-animated-sidebar-shadcnui
BuildOK
MountOK
Console errors0
Uncaught page errors0
Horizontal overflowclean at 375, 768, 1440
Axe critical1
Axe serious0
Axe moderate0
Axe minor0
Gzip marginal64.4 KB (129.9 KB build, 65.5 KB baseline)
Bare modeOK
Provider requiredNO
Demo usedwritten from the component source API

Verdict

A functional visual starter that builds and mounts cleanly, but it is not ready to ship as accessible navigation. Add names to the icon buttons, proper drawer dialog behavior, focus handling, keyboard dismissal, and real link or action wiring before production use.

Use it if

  • You want a compact slide-in navigation treatment and are prepared to replace the placeholder menu actions.
  • Your app already uses Framer Motion and Lucide, so the component does not introduce an otherwise unwanted animation stack.
  • Local open state and a fixed left-side drawer fit your layout without needing a controlled API.

Skip it if

  • You need production-ready accessible navigation without modification, because the icon-only open and close buttons lack accessible names.
  • You require dialog semantics, focus containment, focus restoration, or keyboard dismissal out of the box.
  • You need configurable items, routing hooks, placement, or externally controlled state rather than editing the component source.
  • You are minimizing client-side animation dependencies and do not otherwise use Framer Motion.

Install

Installation record for tripled-animated-sidebar-shadcnui
Declared dependenciesframer-motion, lucide-react, react, radix-ui, clsx, tailwind-merge
Missing on installnone
Bare installbuilds and mounts without the shadcn-style helpers
Providerno provider required in the harness

Outside shadcn, copy the client component, install React, Framer Motion, and Lucide React, then provide Tailwind utilities and the accent, card, foreground, and muted-foreground theme tokens it references. The registry declares a shadcn button dependency, but this source does not import that component.

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

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.