Brand Switcher Bar

Navbar116: Brand Switcher Bar

A sticky bar for a family of products. The brand itself is a button with an up-down chevron: it drops a floating switcher listing every sibling product with an initial-letter mark, a name and a one-liner, the current one marked with a check, and an arrow link to the full catalogue. Links and buttons follow. On a phone the menu is a left drawer over a scrim that opens with the product switcher on top, then the links and the buttons at its foot.

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://beste.dev/r/navbar116?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

Base UI flavor

npx shadcn add "https://beste.dev/r-base/navbar116?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

This installs the block to components/beste/block/navbar116.tsx plus the shadcn button primitive it uses.

Quick start

The installed file exports navbar116Demo alongside the block: the exact props behind the preview above. Spread it to get a working navbar in one line.

import { Navbar116, navbar116Demo } from "@/components/beste/block/navbar116";

export default function Page() {
  return <Navbar116 {...navbar116Demo} />;
}

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

import { Navbar116 } from "@/components/beste/block/navbar116";

export default function Page() {
  return (
    <Navbar116
      brand="Alder"
      products={[
        { name: "Alder Forms", description: "Surveys that feel like a conversation.", href: "/forms" },
        { name: "Alder Sites", description: "Pages your whole team can edit.", href: "/sites", current: true },
      ]}
      allProducts={{ label: "All Alder products", href: "/products" }}
      links={[
        { label: "Templates", href: "/templates" },
        { label: "Pricing", href: "/pricing" },
      ]}
      actions={[
        { label: "Sign in", href: "/login", variant: "ghost" },
        { label: "Build a site", href: "/signup" },
      ]}
      labels={{ switcher: "Switch product", open: "Open menu", close: "Close menu", products: "Products" }}
    />
  );
}

Props

type Product = {
  name: string;
  description: string;
  href: string;
  current?: boolean;
};

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

type ActionButton = {
  label: string;
  href: string;
  variant?: "default" | "outline" | "ghost" | "secondary";
};

Behavior notes

• The switcher card and the mobile drawer are always rendered and toggled with CSS classes, so every product link is in the server-rendered HTML. Closed panels carry aria-hidden and inert.
• The brand button shows the product marked current, with a mark built from the first letter after the family name ("Alder Sites" becomes S); the same product carries aria-current="page" and a check in both lists.
• The switcher opens on hover and on click with aria-expanded and aria-controls, and closes on mouse leave, Escape, a pointer down outside the header or a click on a product.
• The drawer slides in from the left over a scrim; tapping the scrim, the close button, Escape or any link closes it, and body scroll is locked while it is open.