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Building Components
When to use this skill
Use when the user is:
- Building new UI components (primitives, components, blocks, templates)
- Implementing accessibility features (ARIA, keyboard navigation, focus management)
- Creating composable component APIs (slots, render props, controlled/uncontrolled state)
- Setting up design tokens and theming systems
- Publishing components to npm or a registry
- Writing component documentation
- Implementing polymorphism or as-child patterns
- Working with data attributes for styling/state
References
- definitions.mdx - Artifact taxonomy (primitives, components, blocks, templates)
- principles.mdx - Core principles for component design
- accessibility.mdx - ARIA, keyboard navigation, WCAG compliance
- composition.mdx - Composable component patterns
- as-child.mdx - The as-child pattern for element polymorphism
- polymorphism.mdx - Polymorphic component patterns
- types.mdx - TypeScript typing patterns for components
- state.mdx - Controlled vs uncontrolled state management
- data-attributes.mdx - Using data attributes for styling and state
- design-tokens.mdx - Design token systems and theming
- styling.mdx - Component styling approaches
- registry.mdx - shadcn-style registry distribution
- npm.mdx - Publishing components to npm
- marketplaces.mdx - Component marketplace distribution
- docs.mdx - Writing component documentation