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