Article Meta Bar

Author, date, read time, category and a last-updated stamp collapsed into one compact row you can drop anywhere a piece needs its provenance shown on its own — a reprint, an archive card, a changelog entry — without pulling in a full page header.

Long-form · Astro · Subscription · commercial licence · v1.0.1 · updated 2026-10-15 · Live demo

Install

velocityx add article-meta-bar

Subscription component. Run velocityx login with your key first — get one.

---
import ArticleMetaBar from '../components/velocity/article-meta-bar/ArticleMetaBar.astro';
---
<ArticleMetaBar />

Props

Prop	Type	Default	Description
author	{ name: string; href?: string }	—	—
date	string	—	ISO date for the <time datetime> attribute.
dateLabel	string	—	Human-readable form of date, e.g. “14 Oct 2026”. Falls back to date.
updatedDate	string	—	ISO date this piece was last updated, if different from date.
updatedLabel	string	—	Human-readable form of updatedDate. Falls back to updatedDate.
minutes	number	—	—
category	{ label: string; href?: string }	—	—

Files written

velocityx drops these into your project:

• components/velocity/article-meta-bar/ArticleMetaBar.astro

Peer dependencies

None.

Theming

Colours come from the primary-* / accent-* Tailwind scales, so this drops into a project that is not Velocity without dragging our brand in. Install the contract once:

velocityx theme

Then set your whole brand in one place — raw RGB channels, not hex (a hex here silently breaks every opacity variant):

:root {
  --vx-brand: custom;
  --vx-primary-600: 220 38 38;
}

There is no component-level font-family anywhere in the library — your font cascade wins.

Licence

Commercial, for the duration of an active Velocity X subscription. The source is served by the licence-gated endpoint, never by the public CDN.