Frontend Discipline (stack-agnostic)
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What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by alexpeclub/ai-coding-starter-kit in .claude/skills/frontend/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Trigger phrases: "frontend", "screen size", "component", "page", "UI", "state management", "interface"
Web (React/Next/Vue/Svelte/Angular), mobile (React Native/Flutter) or desktop — shared principles. The stack-specific "how" (native bridge, router choice, etc.) lives in the relevant project skill; this skill applies to all of them.
Architecture
- Presentation / logic separation: component/view is pure and thin; business logic lives in the hook/composable/service layer.
- Reusability: repeated UI is factored out; the prop contract is clear and typed.
- Folder: feature-based (
features/<name>/) — view, logic, and test together.
State & data
- Local state first (
useState/signal); if global is needed, the project's choice (store/context) — nothing imposed. - Data fetching: cache + error + loading states are considered; race/abort are handled.
State-complete UI (design it from the start)
Every data-bound view covers four states: loading · empty · error · full. Don't code only the "full" case; empty/error/loading are part of the experience.
i18n & accessibility (default, not decoration)
- User-visible text comes from the language file (project languages); no hard-coded strings (
i18n-integrity). - Meaningful labels/roles, sufficient contrast, keyboard/screen-reader access, appropriate touch/click target.
Visual & UX quality
This skill covers structure; the visual/UX design layer — hierarchy, spacing rhythm, typographic scale, a
restrained color system, and polished states — lives in frontend-design. Apply it when the work is about how the
interface looks and feels, not just how it's wired.
Responsive & performance
- Works across the target screen/device matrix (responsive/adaptive).
- Unnecessary renders (memo/callback), bundle size, lazy loading, virtualization for long lists.
Verify at runtime (contract)
Prove a change works by observing the running UI, structured — not by interpreting a screenshot. Have components
emit data-verify-* state attributes, register verifiable units with fixtures + invariants (≥1 adversarial probe
each), expose window.__verify, and adopt the PASS/FAIL/BLOCKED/SKIP taxonomy (when in doubt, FAIL). Then drive
the browser to check it. The full convention: references/verify-contract.md.
DoD (this skill's contribution)
/simplify; no dead styles/unused props.- The four states are covered;
i18n-integrityclean; accessibility passes the baseline matrix. review-agent-cskclean.
Constraints
- Surgical change; follow existing conventions, do not impose a stack/preference.
- Do not present data the platform does not provide as if it existed; do not promise a capability that isn't there.
- §4 applies: no AI trace or vendor template name in code/comments/strings.
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 373
- Forks
- 876
- Last commit
- Jun 2026
- Hacker News mentions
- 20
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- github.com/alexpeclub/ai-coding-starter-kit