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Ground-truth map of the Inkline monorepo — packages, layout, commands, conventions, known traps, and the styleframe ecosystem. Read before any work in the inkline codebase.

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Inkline project map

Inkline: a write-once, compile-everywhere component framework. Author components once in .ink.tsx (signal-based reactivity); the compiler emits idiomatic React, Vue 3, Svelte 5, Solid, Angular, Qwik, and Astro output. No @inkline/core runtime ships to consumers — the authoring package is inert stubs the compiler erases. Repo: github.com/inkline/inkline. Monorepo: pnpm 11 workspaces + Vite+ (vp CLI). Node ≥22.12. All packages at 0.0.0 — pre-release; nothing is published to npm yet.

Layout

core/      core (authoring stubs + JSX runtime), compiler (TSX → 7 targets via typed IR),
           config-loader (c12), plugin (unplugin, 6 bundlers), inkline (public barrel + bin)
tooling/   cli (citty: compile/check/init/add), storybook (defineStories + CSF generator),
           test-utils (cross-target harnesses), agents-check (doc link-integrity test)
testing/   e2e — Playwright cross-framework visual parity (pixel-diff vs live React reference)
ui/        components (single source of truth, private) + react/vue/svelte/solid/angular/
           qwik/astro (published output packages; compiled code lands in .inkline/)
apps/      storybook (composition aggregator :6100 over the 7 framework Storybooks
           :6006–:6012), website (docs site — today a Vite vanilla placeholder)
docs/      architecture, conventions, contributing, release-process, maintenance, authoring
.changeset/  pending changesets    .github/  ci.yml + changesets.yml
.old/      archived v0 codebase — read-only reference, never edit or link into

Catalog today (snapshot 2026-07-12 — verify with ls ui/components/src/components): 5 component families — badge, button, field-group, hamburger-menu, input — 9 headless parts, 5 styled components, 13 barrel exports. The catalog build-out is the core mission.

Commands (root)

vp install                   # setup (pnpm install + git hooks)
vp run ready                 # build + check + test — the CI gate shape
vp check | vp test | vp lint | vp fmt   # check = fmt + lint + typecheck
pnpm run storybook           # compile watcher + 7 framework Storybooks + :6100 aggregator
pnpm run test:e2e            # Playwright visual parity (boots/reuses the storybook)
vp test --coverage           # per-package; full local runs enforce ~100% thresholds
cd ui/components && pnpm build   # compile .ink.tsx → all 7 targets (+ stories CSF)

Per-package: vp test / vp check / vp pack (library builds) / vp build (app builds). OXLint + Oxfmt via vp — not ESLint, not Prettier.

Conventions

  • Commits: conventional, package-scoped — feat(compiler): …, fix(components): …, ci: ….
  • Tests: colocated <file>.test.ts (components: <file>.ink.test.ts). Never a separate tests/ dir. Playwright e2e is the one exception (own package, test:e2e script so vp test never collects it).
  • Changesets: every change to a published package needs one. Ignore list: website, @inkline/components — component changes ship through the framework packages, so one component change = changesets for each affected @inkline/<framework>.
  • Generated dirs — never hand-edit: ui/<framework>/.inkline/, ui/<framework>/.styleframe/, all dist/, coverage/, storybook-static/.
  • Repo guidelines (root AGENTS.md): think before coding, simplicity first, surgical changes, goal-driven execution. Enforced at review.

Known traps

  1. Doc drift is real here. Live examples: several AGENTS.md files say output lands in generated/ — the real directory is .inkline/ (see ui/components/inkline.config.ts); the compiler README's CLI section describes build/diagnose while the shipped commands are compile/check/init/add; its "v0 limitations" still lists Angular/Qwik/Astro as deferred though all 7 targets ship; docs/authoring-components.md has drifted from the live badge/button/input source. Trust source over docs; when they disagree, proceed from source and file a docs-drift issue.
  2. vp check fixture noise: a standing baseline of ~290 pre-existing TS17004 errors on .ink.tsx compiler fixtures. Not yours. Trust vp test for correctness; never try to "fix" the baseline in passing.
  3. Stale dist bites consumers. The CLI, Storybook, and ui/components consume core/compiler (and core/core) from dist/. After editing compiler source, run vp pack in core/compiler before expecting inkline compile/Storybook to reflect it.
  4. Two compile paths diverge by design: the CLI inkline compile path (writes files into .inkline/, generates barrels + per-framework story CSF) vs the @inkline/plugin path (in-memory compileIncremental transform; no barrels, no stories). "Works via CLI" ≠ "works via plugin" — and the plugin has zero direct tests today.
  5. Per-target test isolation is enforced: one test file per target under codegen/targets/<name>/, never a loop over a target list (testing/per-target-tests.test.ts fails CI on violations). Only the scenario layer compiles across all targets at once.
  6. e2e boot is picky: use pnpm run storybook:test (no compile watcher — it races cold boots with ENOTEMPTY), kill stale processes on ports 6006–6012/6100 first, wait for :6100. React is the live reference — no committed baselines.
  7. Expected compiler notices are part of the contract: INK0045 (Astro two-way) and INK0068 (Qwik/Angular hasSlot) are asserted by tests. Anything else in diagnostics is a real defect. Full registry: core/compiler/src/core/diagnostics/codes.ts (INK0001–INK0120).

The styleframe ecosystem

Inkline's styling is styleframe (github.com/styleframe-dev/styleframe, local ~/Workspace/styleframe) — the sibling project, with its own agent guild. Inkline is styleframe's customer zero: styled components call use<Name>Recipe from @styleframe/theme in .styleframe.ts files; versions are pinned in the pnpm-workspace.yaml catalog (@styleframe/theme ^3.8.x, styleframe ^3.9.x — verify before relying). Recipe gaps upstream block components downstream; upstream breaking changes arrive with migration notes and get same-day triage (Bridge is the ambassador). The styleframe first-party packages are excluded from pnpm's minimumReleaseAge supply-chain guard on purpose; everything else is guarded — treat new exclusions as decisions, not conveniences.

Direction: ~/Workspace/uxfront — the future AI design-system builder (Studio) on top of Inkline + styleframe. Strategic context, not yet implementation.