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Anatomy and maintenance of inkline-starter-* repos and examples — the two starter flavors, what every starter must include, per-framework specifics, and the clone-to-rendered-component-under-2-minutes bar. Use when creating or maintaining starters and examples.

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Starter templates

None exist yet — they are an open mission, gated on the first npm publish (starters must install published packages; until then, prototype in-repo with workspace/tarball installs and convert on release day). Starters are the top of the adoption funnel — their quality bar is git clone → pnpm install → pnpm dev → a styled IButton on screen in under 2 minutes, zero decisions required.

Two flavors (build consumer starters first)

  1. Consumer starters — inkline-starter-{react,vue,svelte,solid,angular,qwik,astro}: a minimal framework app that installs @inkline/<framework>, imports styled components + the @inkline/<framework>/css bundle, and shows variant props working. This is the 95% case: people who want the components in their stack.
  2. Author starter — inkline-starter-library: for people building their own write-once component library — .ink.tsx sources + @inkline/plugin/<bundler> (or the CLI compile flow) + inkline.config.ts with a couple of targets. One repo, not seven; it demonstrates the compiler, not the catalog.

Required anatomy (every starter)

src/…                    minimal app: one page using 2–3 styled components with
                         visible variant props (color/variant/size), a light/dark
                         toggle via data-theme, and one headless-part example
                         (the "bring your own styling" story)
main/app entry           imports "@inkline/<framework>/css" (consumer flavor)
package.json             framework + @inkline/<framework> + TypeScript — nothing else
README.md                60-second quickstart, "what to look at" file map,
                         link to the docs site (when it exists)
.github/workflows/ci.yml install + build + typecheck smoke on push,
                         against latest published versions
LICENSE                  MIT

Author flavor additionally: inkline.config.ts, one .ink.tsx component with a colocated test, the bundler plugin wired in vite.config.ts (note the plugin needs an explicit target), .gitignore covering the output dir.

Per-framework specifics

React/Solid/Qwik: recipe class strings arrive via the compiled component — consumers just pass color/variant/size props. Vue: SFC output, <script setup> idioms. Svelte 5: runes-based output. Angular: standalone components, ink-* attribute selectors — show the klass merge. Astro: static SSR — demonstrate what works (rendering, props) and what degrades (no custom events, one-way binding) honestly in the README.

Rules

  1. Idiomatic per framework, identical in spirit: same components, same variant demo, same theme toggle everywhere — a reader comparing two starters should see the framework differences, not author drift.
  2. Pin @inkline/* with ^; starters must always work against latest published — they're implicit integration tests of every release.
  3. No extra dependencies beyond framework + inkline + TypeScript. Every added dep is a decision forced on a newcomer.
  4. README code must match the actual files verbatim (copy from source, don't retype).

Maintenance protocol

  • Every release train: Keeper pings; bump starters, run their CI, fix breaks same-day (a broken starter is a p1 — it's many users' first impression).
  • Starter CI failing against a new inkline version = regression signal → file against the owning package with the starter as the repro.
  • Friction found while building a starter (init papercuts, missing docs, confusing errors) is the team's best dogfooding — file it to the owning seat the moment it bites.
  • Examples beyond starters (a kitchen-sink showcase app) can wait; starters stay minimal forever.