frontend-patterns

A collection of frontend development patterns for React and Next.js, tools for building web interfaces. It covers components, reusable hooks, shared state, performance, forms, errors, animation, and accessibility.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or reviewing React or Next.js interfaces, managing state, optimizing large lists, handling forms and errors, or improving keyboard and screen-reader support.
Why use it?
It helps choose established ways to organize interface code and avoid unnecessary rerenders, hard-to-use forms, and accessibility problems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cloudnative-co/claude-code-starter-kit/frontend-patterns
Any agent
npx skills add cloudnative-co/claude-code-starter-kit --skill frontend-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cloudnative-co/claude-code-starter-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 443 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00024 $0.00443
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00221
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00089
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00044

Measured 2d ago against content hash 00dad8ce6d9a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

frontend-patterns scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/frontend-patterns/SKILL.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

Frontend Development Patterns

Modern frontend patterns for React, Next.js, and performant user interfaces.

Pattern Categories

Component Patterns

Composition over inheritance, compound components, render props. See references/component-patterns.md for implementations.

Custom Hooks

Reusable hooks: useToggle, useDebounce; server state via TanStack Query / SWR. See references/hooks-patterns.md for implementations.

State Management & Performance

Context + Reducer pattern, memoization, code splitting, virtualization. See references/state-performance.md for implementations.

Forms, Error Boundaries, Animation & Accessibility

Controlled forms with validation, ErrorBoundary, motion (formerly Framer Motion), keyboard navigation, focus management. See references/forms-errors-a11y.md for implementations.

Quick Decision Guide

Need Pattern
Shared state across siblings Context + Reducer
Expensive computation (no React Compiler) useMemo
Stable callback reference (no React Compiler) useCallback
Prevent unnecessary re-renders (no React Compiler) React.memo
Large list rendering Virtualization (@tanstack/react-virtual)
Heavy component lazy() + Suspense
Form validation Controlled form + error state
Graceful error handling ErrorBoundary class component
Keyboard accessible UI role, aria-*, onKeyDown handlers

Note: On projects using React Compiler, manual memoization (useMemo/useCallback/React.memo) is generally unnecessary; add it only when profiling shows a real problem.

Remember: Choose patterns that fit your project complexity. Not every project needs every pattern.

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 46 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 00dad8ce6d9a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

frontend-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository cloudnative-co/claude-code-starter-kit (147 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 443 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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