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Coding conventions, architecture patterns, and testing rules for the SkillHub React frontend. Ensures agents follow Feature-Sliced Design and use the generated OpenAPI types.

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Frontend Conventions Skill

Trigger

Use this skill when:

  • Adding or modifying React/TypeScript frontend code
  • Creating new pages, features, entities, or shared components
  • Changing API client calls or data fetching patterns

Rules

Feature-Sliced Design

Place code at the lowest appropriate layer:

LayerPathPurpose
Pagesweb/src/pages/Route-level page components
Featuresweb/src/features/Business features (search, upload, review, etc.)
Entitiesweb/src/entities/Domain entity display logic (skill, user, namespace)
Sharedweb/src/shared/Reusable UI components, hooks, utilities

Current features:

  • admin — Admin panel (user management, labels, search)
  • auth — Login, OAuth flows, device auth
  • governance — Skill governance actions (hide, yank, archive)
  • namespace — Namespace management (members, settings)
  • notification — User notifications and inbox
  • promotion — Skill promotion between scopes
  • publish — Skill upload/publish UI
  • report — Skill reporting
  • review — Review workflow UI
  • search — Skill search and filtering
  • security-audit — Security audit viewer
  • skill — Skill detail, listing, cards
  • social — Stars, ratings, subscriptions
  • token — API token management

Data Fetching

  • Always use TanStack Query (@tanstack/react-query) for server state.
  • Never use useEffect for data fetching.
  • Use openapi-fetch client with generated types from web/src/api/generated/schema.d.ts.
  • Never use any types.

State Management

  • TanStack Query for server state (API data, caching, invalidation, optimistic updates)
  • Zustand for local/UI state (theme, sidebar, modals, form state)

Component Composition

  • Radix UI primitives: @radix-ui/react-dropdown-menu, @radix-ui/react-select
  • class-variance-authority (cva) for component variants
  • clsx + tailwind-merge for class merging
  • cn() utility: web/src/shared/lib/utils.ts
  • shadcn/ui is NOT used as a library

API Type Generation

When backend OpenAPI contracts change:

make generate-api

This runs openapi-typescript http://localhost:8080/v3/api-docs -o src/api/generated/schema.d.ts.

Commit the updated web/src/api/generated/schema.d.ts with the PR.

To verify the generated file is not stale:

./scripts/check-openapi-generated.sh

Styling

  • Tailwind CSS for all styling
  • cn() utility for conditional class merging
  • Follow existing component patterns in web/src/shared/components/

Internationalization

  • i18next + react-i18next for translations
  • All user-facing text must be translatable
  • Translation keys in web/src/i18n/

Build & Development

make dev-web                # Start Vite dev server (HMR enabled)
make build-frontend         # Production build
make typecheck-web          # TypeScript type check (tsc --noEmit)
make lint-web               # ESLint check
make test-frontend          # Vitest unit tests
make test-e2e-frontend      # Playwright E2E tests
make test-e2e-smoke-frontend # Playwright smoke tests

Vite HMR is enabled by default — save a file and the browser updates instantly.

Frontend Dependencies

Key dependencies (from web/package.json):

  • react 19, react-dom 19
  • @tanstack/react-query 5
  • @tanstack/react-router 1
  • @radix-ui/react-dropdown-menu, @radix-ui/react-select
  • class-variance-authority, clsx, tailwind-merge
  • openapi-fetch 0.13
  • i18next, react-i18next
  • zustand 5
  • react-markdown, rehype-highlight, rehype-sanitize
  • lucide-react (icons)
  • sonner (toasts)

Build tools: Vite 6, TypeScript 5.7, Vitest 3.2, Playwright 1.58