Tab-Style Navbar

Navbar36: Tab-Style Navbar

An app-shell navbar built for section-based interfaces, where each nav item renders as a tab instead of a plain link. A tabStyle prop switches the whole row between an underlined-tab look (bottom border on hover/active, border removed from the navbar itself) and a rounded pill look with a filled active pill. Each NavItem carries its own isActive flag rather than the navbar comparing against a separate "current" prop.

Installation

Swap YOUR_EMAIL and YOUR_KEY for the email and license key on your account. Find your license key on your account page.

Radix flavor

npx shadcn add "https://ui.beste.co/r/navbar36?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

Base UI flavor

npx shadcn add "https://ui.beste.co/r-base/navbar36?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

This installs the block to components/beste/block/navbar36.tsx and the shadcn/ui dependencies it needs (button).

Quick start

The installed file exports navbar36Demo alongside the block: the exact props behind the preview above. Spread it to get a working navbar in one line.

import { Navbar36, navbar36Demo } from "@/components/beste/block/navbar36";

export default function Layout() {
  return <Navbar36 {...navbar36Demo} />;
}

Then replace the demo with your own props. Written out, a trimmed setup looks like this:

import { Navbar36 } from "@/components/beste/block/navbar36";

export default function Layout() {
  return (
    <Navbar36
      logo={{ text: "TabNav", href: "/" }}
      navItems={[
        { label: "Dashboard", href: "/dashboard", isActive: true },
        { label: "Projects", href: "/projects" },
        { label: "Settings", href: "/settings" },
      ]}
      buttons={[{ label: "Upgrade", variant: "default", href: "/upgrade" }]}
      tabStyle="pill"
    />
  );
}

Props

type NavItem = {
  label: string;
  href?: string;
  isActive?: boolean;
};

Behavior notes

• tabStyle is read once per render to pick a Tailwind class set: underline adds a bottom-border pseudo-element (after:) on the active tab and on hover of inactive tabs; pill fills the active tab with bg-primary and rounds it fully, and drops the navbar's own bottom border since the pills carry their own shape.
• Active state comes entirely from each item's own isActive, not from string-matching a separate prop, so multiple call sites can share the same navItems array and only toggle the flag.
• The navbar is sticky top-0; desktop tabs and buttons show at lg and above.
• Below lg, a hamburger button toggles a conditionally rendered panel ({mobileMenuOpen && ...}) that repeats the nav items (active ones get a tinted background) and stacks the buttons full-width; tapping a link closes the panel.