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Streamlit-rail-nav: a collapsible icon-rail sidebar that expands on hover — no iframe, no frontend build

calendar_today September 17, 2026 person @ai11 Bernhard domain streamlit

Hey everyone, I’m excited to share streamlit-rail-nav : a configurable icon-rail sidebar for Streamlit apps. The sidebar collapses down to a thin strip of icons and smoothly expands into a full labeled menu on hover — the pattern you see in a lot of modern SaaS dashboards. Demo Live demo → GitHub repo github.com/aizech/streamlit-rail-nav PyPI streamlit-rail-nav · PyPI Installation pip install streamlit-rail-nav Quick start import streamlit as st from streamlit_rail_nav import render st.set_page_config(layout=”wide”, initial_sidebar_state=”expanded”) render({ “items”: [ {“kind”: “link”, “label”

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