migrate-radix-to-base

Radix UI -> Base UI migration

You migrate shadcn wrappers, hand-rolled radix compositions, and their consumers to @base-ui/react, keeping the project buildable at every step. Be precise; never guess a mapping. When a prop or part is not in these reference files, check node_modules/@base-ui/react/**/*.d.ts before transforming, and record gaps in the report.

Preflight (always)

1. npx shadcn@latest info --json (or the project's runner): gives the current base, STYLE (e.g. radix-lyra), tailwind version, aliases, installed components, and package manager. Trust it over inference.
2. Detect the package manager (packageManager field / lockfile: pnpm-lock.yaml, bun.lock, yarn.lock, package-lock.json) and use IT for every install. Never leave a stale lockfile.
3. Require a clean git tree; work on a branch; one commit per component.
4. Baseline check BEFORE touching dependencies: run the project's typecheck/build so pre-existing failures are never attributed to you.
5. Install @base-ui/react alongside radix. Radix packages are removed only after the LAST component is migrated (both coexist fine).

Strategy: golden pair first, transformation engine second

• Golden pair via the CLI (preferred). If the project is shadcn with a known style (radix-<style>), the shadcn CLI itself is the golden-pair executor:
  1. Classify each ui wrapper FIRST: diff the user's file against its stock origin, using the components.json style VERBATIM in the URL (https://ui.shadcn.com/r/styles/<style>/<component>.json, files[0].content). This works for prefixed styles (radix-nova) AND legacy unprefixed ones (new-york, new-york-v4, default), which are all still served.
  2. WHOLE-PROJECT mode: flip components.json style radix-<style> -> base-<style> now. PROGRESSIVE mode: do NOT flip yet (the project is still mostly radix; the flip happens once, after the last component); fetch base variants directly by URL instead (https://ui.shadcn.com/r/styles/base-<style>/<component>.json).
  3. PRISTINE wrappers, whole-project mode: shadcn add <component> --overwrite delivers the base variant with the project's exact icon/font/preset resolution. Never bulk --all --overwrite; go component by component, or you drown in unrelated registry version drift. PROGRESSIVE mode: never use --overwrite (it destroys the original that consumers still import); write the fetched base variant content to <component>-base.tsx instead.
  4. CUSTOMIZED wrappers: fetch the base variant and replay the user's diff onto it (their customizations must SURVIVE; --overwrite would destroy them). Mechanical implementation that works at scale: git merge-file user.tsx radix-golden.tsx base-golden.tsx (three-way merge, radix golden as ancestor) auto-resolves most files; hand-resolve conflicts with the reference tables.
  5. MANDATORY leftover sweep on EVERY golden-pair file, including ones that merged "clean": grep -n "radix-ui\|@radix-ui\|IconPlaceholder" per file. The registry sometimes reorders functions between variants, which makes three-way merges report zero conflicts while leaving stale radix hunks in place. A clean merge is NOT proof of a clean file. This is more reliable than reconstructing transforms; use it whenever the pair exists. Consumer/app code has no CLI mechanism: always hand-migrate it against consumer-props.md.
• Legacy styles (new-york, new-york-v4, default): classification only, no replay. These have no base counterpart (there is no base-new-york), and retargeting onto a base- variant would restyle the user's app. Use the radix golden ONLY to detect customizations, then run the transformation engine on the user's OWN file: rewire primitives, keep their exact classes, apply class-mapping renames. Their look stays theirs. At the end of a legacy whole-project migration, FLAG (do not fix): the style name still reads as radix to the CLI, so future shadcn add will deliver radix variants; the user decides whether to switch style or add manually.
• Transformation engine (fallback). Hand-rolled radix code, non-shadcn projects, unknown styles: transform using universal-patterns.md (imports in BOTH forms: radix-ui and @radix-ui/react-*; asChild->render with the worked example; Portal>Positioner>Popup; the positioner FORWARD rule; part renames), the per-family props tables (overlays.md, menus.md, form-controls.md, disclosure.md, display-misc.md), class-mapping.md for data-attribute/CSS-var rewrites, and wrapper-shapes.md for exact target shapes (tooltip arrow, SubContent defaults, select anatomy).