Command Palette Navbar

Navbar39: Command Palette Navbar

A developer-tool style navbar built around a Cmd+K / Ctrl+K command palette instead of a wide link list. Desktop shows a short primary nav plus a search-looking trigger button with a ⌘K hint; clicking it (or the keyboard shortcut) opens a CommandDialog listing commandItems grouped by category, with fuzzy filtering and optional keyboard shortcut badges baked in by the underlying shadcn Command primitive.

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/navbar39?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

Base UI flavor

npx shadcn add "https://ui.beste.co/r-base/navbar39?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

This installs the block to components/beste/block/navbar39.tsx and the shadcn/ui dependencies it needs (button, command).

Quick start

The installed file exports navbar39Demo alongside the block: the exact props behind the preview above. Spread it to get a working navbar in one line.

import { Navbar39, navbar39Demo } from "@/components/beste/block/navbar39";

export default function Layout() {
  return <Navbar39 {...navbar39Demo} />;
}

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

import { Navbar39 } from "@/components/beste/block/navbar39";

export default function Layout() {
  return (
    <Navbar39
      logo={{ text: "CmdNav", href: "/" }}
      navItems={[
        { label: "Docs", href: "/docs" },
        { label: "Components", href: "/components" },
      ]}
      commandItems={[
        { label: "Home", href: "/", category: "Pages", shortcut: "H" },
        { label: "Documentation", href: "/docs", category: "Pages", shortcut: "D" },
        { label: "GitHub", href: "https://github.com", category: "Links" },
      ]}
      searchPlaceholder="Type a command or search..."
      buttons={[{ label: "Get Started", variant: "default", href: "/signup" }]}
    />
  );
}

Props

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

type CommandItemProps = {
  label: string;
  href?: string;
  category?: string;
  shortcut?: string;
};

Items with no category are grouped under "Other".

Behavior notes

• A keydown listener on document opens the palette on Cmd+K (Mac) or Ctrl+K (other platforms), calling preventDefault() so the browser's own shortcut doesn't fire; the listener is attached once via useEffect and cleaned up on unmount.
• The visible ⌘K trigger button (desktop, lg and up) and a plain icon button (below lg) both just call setCommandOpen(true); the dialog itself is the shared shadcn CommandDialog.
• commandItems are grouped client-side by category using reduce, so palette sections reflect whatever categories are present in the data, in first-seen order.
• Selecting a command item closes the dialog and navigates via window.location.href (a full page load, not client-side routing), which also fires for items without a category or shortcut.
• Desktop nav links and buttons show at md and above; below that a hamburger toggles a conditionally rendered mobile panel ({mobileMenuOpen && ...}) with stacked links and full-width buttons, separate from the command palette.