Archive By Year Columns

Feature274: Archive By Year Columns

One column per year on a hairline, each stating the year as a figure with its published count beside it, a sentence on what that year was about, and the pieces that defined it.

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/feature274?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

Base UI flavor

npx shadcn add "https://ui.beste.co/r-base/feature274?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

This installs the block to components/beste/block/feature274.tsx and the badge6 component it uses for the eyebrow (installed to components/beste/component/badge6.tsx).

Quick start

The installed file exports feature274Demo alongside the block: the exact props behind the preview above. Spread it to get a working year index in one line.

import { Feature274, feature274Demo } from "@/components/beste/block/feature274";

export default function ArchivePage() {
  return <Feature274 {...feature274Demo} />;
}

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

import { Feature274 } from "@/components/beste/block/feature274";

export default function ArchivePage() {
  return (
    <Feature274
      eyebrow="The archive"
      heading="Four years, read backwards"
      countLabel="pieces"
      years={[
        {
          year: "2026",
          count: "18",
          summary: "The year we published our prices.",
          posts: [
            { title: "The estimate is design work", href: "/essays/estimate" },
            { title: "The quote we lost on purpose", href: "/letters/042" },
          ],
        },
      ]}
    />
  );
}

Props

type YearColumn = {
  year: string;
  count: string;
  summary: string;
  posts: YearPost[];
};

type YearPost = {
  title: string;
  href: string;
};

Behavior notes

• year and count are strings, not numbers, so a column can read "2023" or "Before 2023" without the block trying to do arithmetic on it.
• Both carry tabular-nums, which keeps the figures aligned across columns even in a proportional typeface.
• Order comes from the array. The block does not sort, so a newest-first archive is a newest-first array.
• Columns are two across at md and four at lg, each on its own hairline, so a year with one post does not stretch to match its neighbour.