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The Tailwind class that vanishes without an error

A custom type scale and a class merger that ignores it: the shipped HTML loses the class, and nothing says so.

A design system under constraint step 1

  • Tailwind
  • TypeScript
  • React

4 steps10 min

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React context does not cross an island boundary

Composing a compound component inside a .astro file breaks the build; the assembly has to live on the React side.

A design system under constraint step 2

  • Astro
  • React

4 steps9 min

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A dark theme that does not flash

The theme has to be applied before the first paint, which a deferred module cannot do.

Web foundations step 1

  • Astro
  • CSS
  • TypeScript

4 steps12 min

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A design system under constraint

What breaks when you wire a component library onto your own tokens, and how to see it before production does.

By the endA reusable component layer whose silent failures are caught by tests rather than by a visitor.

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