Reader Letters, Printed In Full

Testimonial47: Reader Letters, Printed In Full

Two long replies set as letters rather than pull quotes, each running at full length on a hairline and signed off with the sender's portrait, where they work and the date it arrived.

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/testimonial47?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

Base UI flavor

npx shadcn add "https://ui.beste.co/r-base/testimonial47?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

This installs the block to components/beste/block/testimonial47.tsx and the badge6 component it uses for the eyebrow (installed to components/beste/component/badge6.tsx).

Quick start

The installed file exports testimonial47Demo alongside the block: the exact props behind the preview above. Spread it to get a working letters section in one line.

import { Testimonial47, testimonial47Demo } from "@/components/beste/block/testimonial47";

export default function RepliesPage() {
  return <Testimonial47 {...testimonial47Demo} />;
}

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

import { Testimonial47 } from "@/components/beste/block/testimonial47";

export default function RepliesPage() {
  return (
    <Testimonial47
      eyebrow="Replies"
      heading="Letters we did not expect to get"
      description="These arrived as replies to an issue, not as testimonials."
      letters={[
        {
          body: "I did it your way for the last three quotes and two of them closed at the price on the page.",
          name: "Maria Santos",
          role: "Independent, Lisbon",
          received: "Received 12 March",
          avatar: { src: "/people/maria.jpg", alt: "Maria Santos" },
        },
      ]}
    />
  );
}

Props

type Letter = {
  body: string;
  name: string;
  role: string;
  received: string;
  avatar?: Avatar;
};

type Avatar = {
  src: string;
  alt: string;
};

Behavior notes

• The body is not truncated and carries no quotation marks of its own, which is what makes it read as a letter rather than as a pulled line.
• Each entry is a figure with a blockquote and a figcaption, so the attribution stays tied to the quote in the markup.
• received is free text, so it can carry a date, a channel or both.
• Two columns from md up. The layout is built for a small number of long replies rather than a wall of short ones.