Admin dashboards are one of the most common real-world UI components you will build as a React developer. At the heart of nearly every dashboard is a sidebar, a persistent navigation panel that organi

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Step-by-step guide to building a fully functional admin dashboard sidebar using shadcn/ui and a pre-built community block from Shadcn Space. Covers project setup with Next.js and Base UI, installing the sidebar-06 block, defining navigation data as a flat typed array, rendering section labels, leaf items, and collapsible parent menus, tracking active parent and child state, and applying floating sidebar styling with an independent scroll area and a promotional card in the footer.

How to Build an Admin Dashboard Sidebar with shadcn/ui and Base UI

How to Handle Active States and Collapsible Menus