Bento Grid

The asymmetric panel grid behind most modern feature sections: a set of cards on one grid where a few cells are deliberately two columns wide or two rows tall, so the section reads as a composition instead of a row of identical boxes. Use it for a landing page features section, a product tour, a "why us" grid, a homepage hero collage, a portfolio or an app-store style showcase. Common asks it answers: "bento grid", "bento box layout", "bento cards", "bento section", "bento blocks", "features bento", "grid layout with different sized cards", "Apple/Linear-style feature grid", "masonry-ish marketing grid", "asymmetric card grid". shadcn/ui ships no layout components at all, so this grid is hand-rolled every time — and hand-rolling it fails in one specific way that is hard to spot: Tailwind only emits classes it can find written out in your source, so the natural `className={`col-span-${n}`}` compiles to nothing and every cell silently renders one column wide in the production build while looking correct in dev. This component keeps every span it can emit as a literal class in a lookup table, so `colSpan={2}` and `rowSpan={2}` survive the compiler. Two parts: `BentoGrid` takes `columns` (2, 3 or 4) and steps up from a single column on phones rather than fixing a track count, and `BentoGridItem` is the panel surface plus its span controls. Rows are sized minmax(11rem, auto) so equal cells line up and a tall cell is visibly twice the height; and because every layout is two columns at md and only widens at lg, each span is capped per breakpoint to the tracks that tier actually has — CSS Grid answers an over-wide span by adding an auto column, not by clamping it, and the first cell to land in that phantom column is sized by its own content. It is layout only and renders no card content of its own, so a cell can hold copy, an image, a chart or a feature-card. The grid deliberately does not use grid-auto-flow: dense — dense packing lets a later cell backfill an earlier gap, which leaves the Tab order and a screen reader reading the section in a different order than the eye sees it — and the cell is a plain div rather than a list item, so your own headings keep the document outline. No state, no effects and no "use client", so it renders as a server component, and it has zero npm dependencies; the surface uses shadcn tokens (card, card-foreground, border) so it follows light and dark themes. Distinct from feature-card, which is the icon/title/description content of one cell: this is the grid the cells sit on.