react-patterns

A guide to organising React applications, including component design, reusable hooks, state management, data loading, performance, and TypeScript practices. React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing React components, extracting repeated behaviour into hooks, selecting state-management approaches, and separating server data from interface state.
Why use it?
It helps developers choose where logic and state belong and avoid large, tangled components or incorrect hook usage.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xenitv1/antigravity-workflows/react-patterns
Any agent
npx skills add xenitV1/Antigravity-Workflows --skill react-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xenitV1/Antigravity-Workflows

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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 885 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.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00021 $0.00885
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00443
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00177
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00089

Measured 2d ago against content hash b10579e408d1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

react-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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/react-patterns/SKILL.md · 199 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 199 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

React Patterns

Principles for building production-ready React applications.


1. Component Design Principles

Component Types

Type Use State
Server Data fetching, static None
Client Interactivity useState, effects
Presentational UI display Props only
Container Logic/state Heavy state

Design Rules

  • One responsibility per component
  • Props down, events up
  • Composition over inheritance
  • Prefer small, focused components

2. Hook Patterns

When to Extract Hooks

Pattern Extract When
useLocalStorage Same storage logic needed
useDebounce Multiple debounced values
useFetch Repeated fetch patterns
useForm Complex form state

Hook Rules

  • Hooks at top level only
  • Same order every render
  • Custom hooks start with "use"
  • Clean up effects on unmount

3. State Management Selection

Complexity Solution
Simple useState, useReducer
Shared local Context
Server state React Query, SWR
Complex global Zustand, Redux Toolkit

State Placement

Scope Where
Single component useState
Parent-child Lift state up
Subtree Context
App-wide Global store

4. React 19 Patterns

New Hooks

Hook Purpose
useActionState Form submission state
useOptimistic Optimistic UI updates
use Read resources in render

Compiler Benefits

  • Automatic memoization
  • Less manual useMemo/useCallback
  • Focus on pure components

5. Composition Patterns

Compound Components

  • Parent provides context
  • Children consume context
  • Flexible slot-based composition
  • Example: Tabs, Accordion, Dropdown

Render Props vs Hooks

Use Case Prefer
Reusable logic Custom hook
Render flexibility Render props
Cross-cutting Higher-order component

Read the full file on GitHub · 199 lines

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 · 199 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A b10579e408d1

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react-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository xenitV1/Antigravity-Workflows (130 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 885 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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