Breadcrumb

A hook for implementing Breadcrumb in your documentation, it returns the path to a page based on the given page tree.

If present, the index page of a folder will be used as the item

Usage

it exports a useBreadcrumb hook:

import { usePathname } from 'next/navigation';
import { useBreadcrumb } from 'fumadocs-core/breadcrumb';
 
const pathname = usePathname();
const 
const items: BreadcrumbItem[]items = useBreadcrumb(pathname, tree);

Example

A styled example.

'use client';
import { usePathname } from 'next/navigation';
import { useBreadcrumb } from 'fumadocs-core/breadcrumb';
import type { PageTree } from 'fumadocs-core/server';
import { Fragment } from 'react';
import { ChevronRight } from 'lucide-react';
import Link from 'next/link';
 
export function Breadcrumb({ tree }: { tree: PageTree.Root }) {
  const pathname = usePathname();
  const items = useBreadcrumb(pathname, tree);
 
  if (items.length === 0) return null;
 
  return (
    <div className="-mb-3 flex flex-row items-center gap-1 text-sm font-medium text-fd-muted-foreground">
      {items.map((item, i) => (
        <Fragment key={i}>
          {i !== 0 && (
            <ChevronRight className="size-4 shrink-0 rtl:rotate-180" />
          )}
          {item.url ? (
            <Link
              href={item.url}
              className="truncate hover:text-fd-accent-foreground"
            >
              {item.name}
            </Link>
          ) : (
            <span className="truncate">{item.name}</span>
          )}
        </Fragment>
      ))}
    </div>
  );
}

You can use it by passing the page tree via tree in a server component.

Prop	Type	Default
`name`	`ReactNode`	-
`url`	`string`	-

Usage

Example

Breadcrumb Item

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