Frontend Development Guidelines

Purpose

Comprehensive guide for modern React development, emphasizing Suspense-based data fetching, lazy loading, proper file organization, and performance optimization.

When to Use This Skill

• Creating new components or pages
• Building new features
• Fetching data with TanStack Query
• Setting up routing with TanStack Router
• Styling components with MUI v7
• Performance optimization
• Organizing frontend code
• TypeScript best practices

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Quick Start

New Component Checklist

Creating a component? Follow this checklist:

• [ ] Use React.FC<Props> pattern with TypeScript
• [ ] Lazy load if heavy component: React.lazy(() => import())
• [ ] Wrap in <SuspenseLoader> for loading states
• [ ] Use useSuspenseQuery for data fetching
• [ ] Import aliases (@/, ~types, ~components)
• [ ] Event handlers with useCallback
• [ ] No early returns for loading states

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Core Patterns

Component Pattern

import React, { useState, useCallback } from 'react';
import { Box, Paper } from '@mui/material';
import { useSuspenseQuery } from '@tanstack/react-query';
import { featureApi } from '../api/featureApi';
import type { FeatureData } from '~types/feature';

interface MyComponentProps {
    id: number;
    onAction?: () => void;
}

export const MyComponent: React.FC<MyComponentProps> = ({ id, onAction }) => {
    const [state, setState] = useState<string>('');

    const { data } = useSuspenseQuery({
        queryKey: ['feature', id],
        queryFn: () => featureApi.getFeature(id),
    });

    const handleAction = useCallback(() => {
        setState('updated');
        onAction?.();
    }, [onAction]);

    return (
        <Box sx={{ p: 2 }}>
            <Paper sx={{ p: 3 }}>
                {/* Content */}
            </Paper>
        </Box>
    );
};

export default MyComponent;

Data Fetching

// Use useSuspenseQuery - No isLoading checks needed!
const { data } = useSuspenseQuery({
    queryKey: ['myEntity', id],
    queryFn: () => myFeatureApi.getEntity(id),
});

// data is ALWAYS defined (Suspense handles loading)

Lazy Loading

// Lazy load heavy components
const HeavyComponent = React.lazy(() => import('./HeavyComponent'));

// Wrap in SuspenseLoader
<SuspenseLoader>
    <HeavyComponent />
</SuspenseLoader>

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Anti-Patterns

❌ NEVER

• Early returns for loading states (causes layout shift)
• Use any type
• Use makeStyles or styled() (use sx prop)
• Use react-toastify (use useMuiSnackbar)
• Direct API calls for auth (use useAuth hook)

✅ ALWAYS

• React.FC<Props> with TypeScript
• useSuspenseQuery for data fetching
• Suspense boundaries for loading states
• MUI v7 sx prop for styling
• Import type for type imports

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File Organization

features/ Directory

For domain-specific features with own logic and API:

features/
  my-feature/
    api/
      myFeatureApi.ts
    components/
      MyFeatureMain.tsx
    hooks/
      useMyFeature.ts
    types/
      index.ts
    index.ts

components/ Directory

For truly reusable UI components:

components/
  SuspenseLoader/
  CustomAppBar/
  ErrorBoundary/

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Resource Files

| Topic | File | |-------|------| | Common patterns | common-patterns.md | | Component patterns | component-patterns.md | | Data fetching | data-fetching.md | | File organization | file-organization.md | | Loading and errors | loading-and-error-states.md | | Routing guide | routing-guide.md | | Styling guide | styling-guide.md | | TypeScript standards | typescript-standards.md |

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Related Skills

• frontend-design: Visual design and aesthetics
• backend-dev-guidelines: Backend API patterns that frontend consumes

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