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Component creation checklist and ai-client-specific patterns for React .tsx files in opentrons-ai-client/ and protocol-designer/. Use when creating new React components in these packages.

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React Component Creation Checklist

General TypeScript, React, styling, testing, and import conventions are in the opentrons-typescript skill. PD-specific architecture is in the protocol-designer skill. CSS Modules details are in the css-modules skill. This file covers the component creation workflow and opentrons-ai-client specifics.

Before Creating a New Component

  1. Consider the component's purpose, functionality, and design
  2. Check if a similar component already exists in:
    • components/src/atoms/, components/src/molecules/, components/src/organisms/ (shared library)
    • <project>/src/components/atoms/, molecules/, organisms/ (project-local)
  3. If an existing component can be extended or composed, prefer that over creating a new one

Component File Structure

ComponentName/
├── index.tsx
├── componentname.module.css
└── __tests__/
    └── ComponentName.test.tsx

opentrons-ai-client Specifics

Path Alias

The ai-client uses /ai-client/ as its path alias (mapped to opentrons-ai-client/src/):

import { AttachedFileItem } from '/ai-client/atoms/AttachedFileItem'

import type { ChatData } from '/ai-client/resources/types'

Testing

Use renderWithProviders from the ai-client testing utils:

import { renderWithProviders } from '/ai-client/__testing-utils__'

Running Tests

pnpm vitest opentrons-ai-client/src/path/to/file
pnpm vitest opentrons-ai-client/src/folder/

Running Stylelint

pnpm stylelint opentrons-ai-client/src/path/to/file.module.css