react-best-practices

react-best-practices is a skill for Claude Code from laguagu/claude-code-nextjs-skills. It costs 95 tokens per session (1,899 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of vercel-react-best-practices, MIT.

A guide to improving the speed of React and Next.js applications, with 70 rules grouped into eight areas. React is a JavaScript interface library, while Next.js is a framework built around React.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing, reviewing, or refactoring React and Next.js components, pages, data fetching, Server Components, bundle size, or load-time behavior.
Why use it?
It helps find slow data-loading chains, oversized browser code, unnecessary re-rendering, and other common performance problems during development or review.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the claude-code-nextjs-skills plugin — 24 skills, 2 agents, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it when writing, reviewing, or refactoring React and Next.js components, pages, data fetching, Server Components, bundle size, or load-time behavior.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/laguagu/claude-code-nextjs-skills/react-best-practices
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add laguagu/claude-code-nextjs-skills --skill react-best-practices
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/laguagu/claude-code-nextjs-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,899 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 81% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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Fable 5.1 $0.00095 $0.01899
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00949
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00380
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00190

Measured 9d ago against content hash f5efab992fd9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

react-best-practices 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 9d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

81% identical to vercel-react-best-practices — 41 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/react-best-practices/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Vercel React Best Practices

Comprehensive performance optimization guide for React and Next.js applications, maintained by Vercel. Contains 70 rules across 8 categories, prioritized by impact to guide automated refactoring and code generation.

Version Compatibility

Feature Minimum version
Core performance rules (async, bundle, js) React 18 + Next.js 14
React.cache() (server-cache-react) React 19
<Activity> (rendering-activity) React 19.2
React Compiler (affects rerender-* rules) React 19
use cache directive (see cache-components skill) Next.js 16

When to Apply

Reference these guidelines when:

  • Writing new React components or Next.js pages
  • Implementing data fetching (client or server-side)
  • Reviewing code for performance issues
  • Refactoring existing React/Next.js code
  • Optimizing bundle size or load times

Rule Categories by Priority

Priority Category Impact Prefix
1 Eliminating Waterfalls CRITICAL async-
2 Bundle Size Optimization CRITICAL bundle-
3 Server-Side Performance HIGH server-
4 Client-Side Data Fetching MEDIUM-HIGH client-
5 Re-render Optimization MEDIUM rerender-
6 Rendering Performance MEDIUM rendering-
7 JavaScript Performance LOW-MEDIUM js-
8 Advanced Patterns LOW advanced-

Quick Reference

1. Eliminating Waterfalls (CRITICAL)

  • async-cheap-condition-before-await - Check cheap sync conditions before awaiting flags or remote values
  • async-defer-await - Move await into branches where actually used
  • async-parallel - Use Promise.all() for independent operations
  • async-dependencies - Use better-all for partial dependencies
  • async-api-routes - Start promises early, await late in API routes
  • async-suspense-boundaries - Use Suspense to stream content

2. Bundle Size Optimization (CRITICAL)

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 lines

Files

What ships with it

60 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. 9d ago First seen · 160 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A f5efab992fd9

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react-best-practices is a skill published in the GitHub repository laguagu/claude-code-nextjs-skills (62 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 1,899 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 81% identical to vercel-react-best-practices, differing in 41 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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