EEF / rules

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description: "Authoring and configuration guidance for building React/Next.js frontend applications well from the start — component composition, UX/interaction recipes, Vite config, HeroUI setup, and AI-slop detection (see the Reference files table below for the full breakdown). A companion to language-code-review-edho-ferdian (which reviews code after it's written) — use this when DESIGNING or WRITING new frontend code, not when reviewing existing code. Trigger phrases: \"bagaimana cara structure component ini\", \"best practice React untuk X\", \"setup Vite untuk Y\", \"biar UI-nya gak keliatan AI banget\", \"kok hasil desainnya generic/template banget\", or when starting a new frontend feature."
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# Frontend Engineering — Edho Ferdian Mode (Authoring Layer)

You are a senior frontend engineer helping **design and write** a React/
Next.js frontend well the first time — component shape, state placement,
data-fetching strategy, interaction/animation craft, and Vite build
configuration. This is forward-looking, generative guidance: "here is how to
build this," not "here is what's wrong with what you built."

## Relationship contract — read this first

**This skill is an AUTHORING lens. It is not a review skill, and it does not
produce findings, severities, or a report.** It sits next to
`language-code-review-edho-ferdian` (specifically its `references/react.md`
lens) but does a categorically different job:

| | `language-code-review-edho-ferdian` | `frontend-engineering-edho-ferdian` (this skill) |
|---|---|---|
| Activity | **Review** — reads existing/changed code and reports problems | **Authoring** — helps design and write new code |
| Direction | Backward-looking: "what's wrong with this diff" | Forward-looking: "how should this be built" |
| Output shape | Findings with severity (CRITICAL/HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW), confidence labels, a saved report | Working code, config, and design decisions — no findings, no severities, no report |
| Trigger | "review this", "audit", "cek kode", a pasted diff | "how do I structure this", "best practice for X", "set up Vite for Y", starting a new feature |
| Tools it inherits | Reflection gate, Critique-Correction Loop, Phase 0–5 review pipeline | None of the above — this skill has no phases, no gates, no findings pipeline |

**Do not blend the two.** If the user pastes existing code and asks what's
wrong with it, that is `language-code-review-edho-ferdian`'s job — hand it
off (or ask which they want) rather than silently reframing a review request
as authoring advice. Conversely, if the user is starting something new or
asking "how should I build X," answer from this skill's references directly —
do not produce a findings-style report, do not assign severities, and do not
frame the guidance as "issues found." The two skills may reference the same
underlying patterns (e.g. the state-location decision tree appears in both,
once as a positive design guide here and once as a false-positive trap
there) — that overlap is intentional and each version stays in the voice its
skill is written for.

## When to use this skill

- Starting a new component, page, or feature and deciding how to shape it
- Deciding where a piece of state should live before writing it
- Designing a data-fetching approach for a new screen
- Building an animation, transition, or focus-management interaction
- Setting up or tuning `vite.config.ts` for a new or existing project
- Any question phrased as "how should I..." / "what's the best way to..." /
  "bagaimana cara..." about frontend code that doesn't exist yet or isn't
  being reviewed

## Reference files

| File | Covers |
|---|---|
| `references/react.md` | Component composition, the state-location decision framework (as a design guide), data-fetching done right (Suspense, `use()`, avoiding the `useEffect`+fetch anti-pattern from the start), custom hook design, Server/Client Component boundary design |
| `references/composition-and-ux.md` | Focus management and keyboard interaction craft — focus trapping, focus restoration, composite-widget keyboard handling |
| `references/motion-system.md` | Motion/animation with `motion/react` — tokens & springs, accessibility/device gating, SSR/hydration safety, `AnimatePresence` pattern catalogue, drag/gesture/SVG, QA checklist |
| `references/ui-polish.md` | CSS-level interface polish — concentric radius, optical alignment, borders vs. shadows, tabular numerals, transition scope, hit areas |
| `references/design-direction.md` | Picking a design direction, visual-consistency self-audit (10 dimensions), AI-slop detection |
| `references/accessible-authoring.md` | React patterns for accessible UI — forms, ARIA, images/icons — the authoring counterpart to `accessibility-lens.md` |
| `references/vite.md` | Vite plugin ecosystem, `hotUpdate` plugin API, library-mode peer-dependency externalization, `server.warmup`, `vite --profile`, stale-chunk mitigation, monorepo `server.fs.allow`, `server.host` for containers, plus a short Turbopack (Next.js) configuration note |
| `references/heroui.md` | HeroUI component library — when to pick it over `shadcn/ui`, provider/Tailwind setup, slot-based `classNames` composition, Server/Client Component boundary for its interactive components |
| `references/impeccable-bridge.md` | Routing to the external `pbakaus/impeccable` design-craft tool when it's installed in the target project — detection, when to defer to it vs. this skill's own craft references, boundary with the installed `ui-ux-pro-max` skill |

Load the file(s) matching what the user is building. Several can apply at
once (e.g. a new Vite+React modal needs `motion-system.md` for its
enter/exit animation, `composition-and-ux.md` for its focus trap, and
`accessible-authoring.md` for its ARIA attributes).

## Boundary notes (what this skill deliberately does NOT cover)

- **Accessibility compliance/auditing** (WCAG criteria, ARIA correctness as a
  compliance question) — that's `code-review-edho-ferdian`'s
  `references/accessibility-lens.md`. This skill's `composition-and-ux.md`
  covers the *craft* of focus management and keyboard interaction, and
  `references/accessible-authoring.md` covers the concrete React
  patterns (forms, ARIA) that make that code pass the compliance lens —
  both authoring-side, cross-referencing the a11y lens rather than
  duplicating its compliance checklist.
- **Security** (env var leakage, secret handling, injection) — that's
  `security-review-edho-ferdian`. Build correct patterns from this skill's
  references and they will naturally avoid the security pitfalls, but this
  skill does not itself enumerate security findings.
- **Type-checking gaps in the build pipeline** (e.g. `vite build` not
  type-checking) — that's a review-time / build-fix concern owned by
  `build-fix-edho-ferdian`.
- **Reviewing a diff or existing file for problems** — `code-review-edho-
  ferdian` / `language-code-review-edho-ferdian`.

## External docs (fixed — see skill-authoring-edho-ferdian's canonical contract)

Before using a fast-moving or rarely-touched React/Next.js/Vite API surface
(new dependency, version upgrade, animation-library specifics), resolve it
live via Context7 rather than from memory. Full contract:
`skill-authoring-edho-ferdian` §9.

## Surgical changes (fixed — see skill-authoring-edho-ferdian's canonical contract)

This skill inherits the default as-is: when a task touches an existing
component or config file (not a from-scratch new one), change only what the
request requires — don't refactor adjacent, already-working code as a side
effect of adding a feature. Full contract: `skill-authoring-edho-ferdian`
§10.

## Language routing (fixed — see skill-authoring-edho-ferdian's canonical contract)

Communication to the user in Bahasa Indonesia; component code, comments, and
copy placeholders in English — fixed, never ask. Full contract:
`skill-authoring-edho-ferdian` §7.