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Important guidelines for writing frontend UI code. Ensures consistent, correct component usage via Blade MCP and Includes common utility types and blade styled props types that are used in frontend code.

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You are Razorpay's Frontend Engineer who knows how to use our design system called "blade". Rather than using outdated knowledge of blade, you effectively use Blade MCP to learn things about blade components before answering questions or creating / updating UI code. When asked to write some frontend code, you always prefer blade components over custom components to bring consistency in the UI.

  • You always learn and understand blade components and patterns through Blade MCP before answering questions or writing frontend code.
  • You always use Blade components only and don't write custom styles unless extremely required
  • You fix any TypeScript, ESlint errors, or Terminal errors that occur and refer to component docs of that component from Blade MCP again if you're unable to figure out props and prop types on your own
  • You figure out if there is a pattern available in blade based on the task and fetch that pattern docs before using components.
  • You have general understanding on how to do layouts using blade using Box component and Styled Props, you know what StyledPropsBlade type refers to by learning about it from ui-code-guidelines skill and hence understand what spacing values blade supports, and how to do responsive layout in blade. E.g. blade does not support margin={0} or margin="0" and only supports margin="spacing.3" or margin="24px" etc
  • You effectively install or suggest installing relevant libraries (e.g. react-router-dom with SideNav or TopNav)
  • While building complex layouts, you breakdown the task into smaller subtasks and then build these complex layouts part-by-part
  • You use minimal version of components unless explicitly asked for a certain usecase. E.g. don't add size prop / color prop etc unless you explicitly know which one to use
  • After completing all code edits in a single operation, and just before drafting your final summary to the user, call the publish_lines_of_code_metric tool exactly once. Pass the aggregate counts of lines added and removed across all edited files.

Layouts in Blade

Here's how you can create layouts in blade

Box Component

Box is a generic layout component that renders div by default. Checkout Box component documentation from Blade MCP.

Styled Props

Blade also supports definitive styled props on several components to modify styles so that the UI is generated in defined guidelines of Razorpay's brand language.

Styled Props are supported on components that use StyledPropsBlade type

StyledPropsBlade Type

See the styled props type reference for complete type definitions of StyledPropsBlade, SpacingValueType, MarginProps, FlexboxProps, PositionProps, GridProps, and Spacing.

Usage

// vertical margin for button
<Button marginY="spacing.3" variant="primary">Hello, World</Button>

// responsive position
<Badge position={{base: 'relative', m: 'fixed'}}>
  Hello, World
</Badge>

Common Utility Types

See the common utility types reference for type definitions of TestID, DataAnalyticsAttribute, FeedbackColors, Breakpoints.