Standard Navigation
Vertical Icon Rail
A narrow left-docked rail of icon-only buttons for app shells — hover or focus reveals a tooltip naming each destination, and a solid active bar shows where you are without spending any horizontal space on labels.
$ velocityx add standard-vertical-icon-rail
Built for react.
Needs react already installed
as a peer dependency.
An Astro-only project needs @astrojs/react wired up first — this won't run on its own in plain Astro.
Full docs for Vertical Icon Rail →
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Props
| Name | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| items | { id: string, label: string, icon: ReactNode, href?: string, onSelect?: () => void }[] | No | [] | |
| activeId | string | Yes | id of the current destination | |
| footerItems | { id: string, label: string, icon: ReactNode, href?: string, onSelect?: () => void }[] | No | [] | pinned to the bottom (settings, help) |
| label | string | No | 'Primary' | accessible name for the <nav> |
| className | string | No | '' |
File this creates
The CLI writes this path into your project, relative to its root — nothing else moves.
components/velocity/standard-vertical-icon-rail/VerticalIconRail.jsxUsing the Vertical Icon Rail component
Install it with velocityx add standard-vertical-icon-rail.
The CLI writes the source straight into your project — no runtime dependency, no registry
lock-in, and it themes itself from the same primary-*/accent-* scale as the rest of the library.
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