react-best-practices

react-best-practices is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from open-gsd/gsd-pi. It costs 65 tokens per session (1,497 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of vercel-react-best-practices, MIT.

A set of performance guidelines for React, a JavaScript interface library, and Next.js, a framework built around React. It covers patterns for data loading, browser rendering, server work, re-renders, and JavaScript bundle size.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build or review React components and Next.js pages, improve data fetching, reduce bundle size, and address slow rendering or repeated updates.
Why use it?
It helps identify code patterns that can make pages load slowly or do unnecessary work. The guidance can be used while writing, reviewing, or restructuring React and Next.js code.

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About the project

GSD Pi is a command-line coding agent and project workflow system that plans, implements, verifies, and tracks software work through milestones, tasks, Git worktrees, and stored project notes. It is for developers who want structured, longer-running agent sessions using different model providers. The catalogue entries extend GSD Pi with skills and agents.

open-gsd/gsd-pi · 1,198 stars · on GitHub · opengsd.net

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/open-gsd/gsd-pi/react-best-practices
Any agent
npx skills add open-gsd/gsd-pi --skill react-best-practices
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/open-gsd/gsd-pi

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,497 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 78% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 5.1 $0.00065 $0.01497
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00749
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00299
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00150

Measured 6d ago against content hash 9450fcb27259, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, 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 6d 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

78% identical to vercel-react-best-practices — 36 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.

src/resources/skills/react-best-practices/SKILL.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 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 57 rules across 8 categories, prioritized by impact to guide automated refactoring and code generation.

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-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)

  • bundle-barrel-imports - Import directly, avoid barrel files
  • bundle-dynamic-imports - Use next/dynamic for heavy components
  • bundle-defer-third-party - Load analytics/logging after hydration
  • bundle-conditional - Load modules only when feature is activated
  • bundle-preload - Preload on hover/focus for perceived speed

3. Server-Side Performance (HIGH)

  • server-auth-actions - Authenticate server actions like API routes
  • server-cache-react - Use React.cache() for per-request deduplication
  • server-cache-lru - Use LRU cache for cross-request caching
  • server-dedup-props - Avoid duplicate serialization in RSC props
  • server-serialization - Minimize data passed to client components
  • server-parallel-fetching - Restructure components to parallelize fetches
  • server-after-nonblocking - Use after() for non-blocking operations

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 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. 6d ago First seen · 137 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 9450fcb27259

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react-best-practices is a skill published in the GitHub repository open-gsd/gsd-pi (1,198 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,497 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 78% identical to vercel-react-best-practices, differing in 36 lines, and is treated as a copy.