civiltekk-react-quality-skill

---
name: civiltekk-react-quality-skill
description: >-
  React and Next.js quality, four routes. perf: waterfall elimination, bundle
  size, server-side caching, data fetching, re-render and rendering
  optimization — triggers: react performance, nextjs optimization, bundle
  size, waterfall, slow page, unnecessary re-renders. hooks-antipatterns:
  stale useState from props, StrictMode double-execution, dependency traps,
  stale refs, toast.promise leaks. render-antipatterns: missing fragment
  keys, unsafe JSON.parse, revalidatePath/redirect swallowing, ssr:false
  hydration. ts-dry: apply the DRY principle to eliminate TypeScript code
  duplication with refactoring patterns.
license: Apache-2.0
compatibility: opencode
metadata:
  protocol: autoresearch-opt-in
category: Framework-Specific
---

Consolidates react-best-practices-skill + react-hooks-antipatterns-skill + react-render-antipatterns-skill + typescript-dry-principle-skill (#603).

<!-- Provenance: perf route (#546) — source-inspired by vercel-labs/agent-skills (react-best-practices branch), Vercel Engineering — license: none found (verified 2026-09-24 via GitHub API). Rules paraphrased in original words; code snippets are minimal self-written idioms. No verbatim upstream text copied. Structure: upstream's split rules directory deliberately flattened into the single references/perf/react-performance-guidelines.md file. hooks/render/ts-dry routes — canvastekk-frontend-nextjs LEARNINGS; hooks + render split from react-nextjs-antipatterns-skill (PLAN-GIT-312). -->

## What I do

Fix React/Next.js performance problems and React/TypeScript correctness
anti-patterns, on four routes:

1. **Detect the route** (§Routes) — the request usually names it ("optimize
   this page", "slow page", "bundle size" → `perf`; "state is stale",
   "runs twice in StrictMode" → `hooks-antipatterns`; "key warning",
   "crash on drop", "redirect swallowed" → `render-antipatterns`; "these
   types are duplicated everywhere" → `ts-dry`). Match symptoms to routes
   directly — no ask needed for this family.
2. **Load the route's values file** (§Side files) and apply its patterns.
   The §Route `perf` method below (apply top-down by impact) applies on
   every `perf`-route run — it lives here, not in a values file.
3. The routes compose — a Next.js review may walk `perf` then
   `render-antipatterns` then `hooks-antipatterns`; load per request, not
   all four up front.

## Side files (load rules)

| Read | When | Use |
|------|------|-----|
| `references/perf/react-performance-guidelines.md` | route `perf` | 43 rules in 8 impact-ranked categories: waterfalls, bundle size, server-side, client data fetching, re-renders, rendering, JS micro-optimizations, advanced patterns |
| `references/hooks.md` | route `hooks-antipatterns` | Stale `useState` from props, StrictMode double-execution, `useCallback`/`useMemo` dependency traps, stale ref accumulators, `toast.promise` double-consumer leaks, hook decomposition |
| `references/render.md` | route `render-antipatterns` | Missing fragment keys, unsafe `JSON.parse` in handlers, visibility-toggle consistency, CSS-custom-property theming, Next.js runtime patterns (`revalidatePath`/`redirect` digest signals, `ssr: false` hydration, Playwright project routing) |
| `references/dry.md` | route `ts-dry` | Canonical type import, shared status mapping, circular-dep watch, verification loop |

Side files carry VALUES only; this file carries the METHOD — the perf
apply-top-down rule and route boundaries below are the method.

## Routes

| Situation | Route |
|-----------|-------|
| "react performance", "nextjs optimization", bundle size, waterfall, slow page, unnecessary re-renders; writing new React components or Next.js pages; implementing data fetching (client or server); reviewing/refactoring React/Next.js code for performance; optimizing load times or interaction responsiveness | `perf` |
| Debugging stale state after external data mutations; StrictMode double-execution bugs; `useCallback`/`useMemo` dependency warnings or stale closures; auditing `toast.promise` usage for double-error-reporting; decomposing large components into focused hooks | `hooks-antipatterns` |
| React key warnings in list rendering; UI crashes from malformed drag-and-drop data; inconsistent component visibility patterns; theme-driven (light/dark) component design; swallowed `revalidatePath`/`redirect` signals; hydration mismatches from browser-API components | `render-antipatterns` |
| Similar code blocks across `.ts`/`.tsx` files; copy-paste between modules; duplicate type definitions; scattered config values; repeated validation/fetch logic | `ts-dry` |
| Several symptoms match | run every matching route; no ask — this family's routes never conflict |

## Route `perf` — apply top-down

Priority-ordered React/Next.js performance guidance: 43 rules across 8
impact-ranked categories, from critical (request waterfalls, bundle bloat)
to incremental (micro-optimizations, advanced patterns). Full rule-by-rule
catalog with examples: `references/perf/react-performance-guidelines.md`.

| Priority | Category | Impact |
|----------|----------|--------|
| 1 | Eliminating waterfalls | CRITICAL |
| 2 | Bundle size | CRITICAL |
| 3 | Server-side performance | HIGH |
| 4 | Client-side data fetching | MEDIUM-HIGH |
| 5 | Re-render optimization | MEDIUM |
| 6 | Rendering performance | MEDIUM |
| 7 | JavaScript micro-optimizations | LOW-MEDIUM |
| 8 | Advanced patterns | LOW |

Apply top-down: a CRITICAL fix (parallelizing requests) dwarfs any number
of LOW fixes (hoisting regexps).

### Quick reference

**Waterfalls (CRITICAL)** — move each `await` into the branch that needs it; start independent work before awaiting (fire promises early, await late); `Promise.all()` for independent operations; Suspense boundaries so wrappers render while data streams; split dependency chains so slow steps don't gate fast ones.

**Bundle size (CRITICAL)** — import from source modules, not barrel files (icon/component libraries can re-export thousands of modules; 200-800ms cold-start cost); `next/dynamic` for heavy components; load analytics/logging after hydration; preload on user intent (hover/focus, feature-flag on).

**Server-side (HIGH)** — `React.cache()` deduplicates within a request; an LRU cache covers across requests; pass only the fields a client component uses across the RSC boundary; restructure trees so sibling server components fetch in parallel.

**Client data (MEDIUM-HIGH)** — SWR deduplicates and caches across instances; share global event listeners through one subscription instead of one per component instance.

**Re-renders (MEDIUM)** — read dynamic state where it's used, not at the top; extract expensive work into memoized components so early returns skip it; depend on primitives, not objects; subscribe to derived booleans, not continuous values; lazy `useState` initializers for expensive first values; `startTransition` for non-urgent updates.

**Rendering (MEDIUM)** — animate a wrapper `<div>`, not the `<svg>` element (GPU acceleration); `content-visibility: auto` + `contain-intrinsic-size` for long lists; hoist static JSX out of components; trim SVG coordinate precision; prevent hydration-mismatch flicker with a synchronous inline script instead of post-hydration `useEffect`; `<Activity>` to preserve state on frequent show/hide; explicit `? :` over `&&` (falsy `0`/`NaN` render literally).

**JavaScript (LOW-MEDIUM)** — batch style changes via classes or `cssText`; index Maps for repeated lookups; cache repeated function results at module level; cache storage-API reads; merge multi-pass array loops; length check before expensive comparisons; early returns; hoist RegExp out of render; single-pass loops for min/max instead of sort; `Set`/`Map` for membership checks; `toSorted()`/`toReversed()` instead of mutating `sort()` on React state.

**Advanced (LOW)** — keep event handlers in refs so effects don't resubscribe; a `useLatest` ref gives callbacks fresh values without dependency churn.

## Boundaries

- The four routes were formerly peer skills — those boundaries are internal
  now; the route table above is the boundary logic.
- Visual design/aesthetics → `frontend-design-skill`; ARIA patterns for
  dynamic error banners → `accessibility-a11y-skill`; visual/UX review of
  rendered output → `uiux-review-skill`. This skill fixes the code-level
  patterns that cause render bugs, not the visual result.
- Non-React performance (profiling, Redis/CDN caching, N+1 detection,
  module-scope cache leaks) → `performance-optimization-skill`; the `perf`
  route is React/Next.js-specific.
- Language-agnostic duplication smells (Rule of Three, extract-function)
  → `code-smells-skill` / `clean-code-skill`; route `ts-dry` is the
  TypeScript-specific recipe (canonical type imports, shared status maps).

## Agent behavior rules

- No route asks: match symptoms to routes directly; when several match,
  run each — performance work first when the request is about speed,
  correctness routes when it is about bugs.
- Never declare a `perf` run done while a CRITICAL-category rule still
  applies to the changed code; never declare a correctness-route run done
  until every in-scope before/after pattern is applied or explicitly
  waived with a reason.
- Values files load per route; never load all four for a single-symptom
  request.

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