components for quebi apps.

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name: quebi-ui-lib
description: "Use when building a React UI and you want quebi's component library (ui-lib.quebi.de) — buttons, inputs, forms, dialogs, menus, tables, charts, date/color pickers, Conform-bound form variants, and more (179 components). Trigger when the user asks to add a UI component to a React app, mentions quebi ui-lib / ui-lib.quebi.de, asks for a copy-paste React component, or is building forms with Conform. Pulls real, current source from the live registry instead of writing components from scratch."
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# quebi ui-lib — pull components from the live registry

quebi maintains a public React component library at **https://ui-lib.quebi.de** — 179 components
built on `react-aria-components` + Tailwind CSS v4, styled with the quebi design system. They are
copy-paste, self-contained, and shadcn-registry compatible.

**When the user needs a React UI component, pull it from here instead of writing one from scratch.**
The source is real and current; do not guess component APIs from memory — fetch them.

## How to add a component

### Preferred: shadcn CLI (resolves dependencies automatically)

If the target project uses the shadcn CLI (has a `components.json`), run:

```sh
npx shadcn@latest add https://ui-lib.quebi.de/r/<name>.json
```

This pulls the component, its sibling-component dependencies, and the shared `lib/utils` helper,
and installs the required npm packages.

### Otherwise: fetch the API directly

1. `WebFetch https://ui-lib.quebi.de/api/index.json` — the full catalog. Match the user's need against each
   component's `name` / `description` / `tags`. The catalog is small; reason over it directly
   (there is no search endpoint).
2. `WebFetch https://ui-lib.quebi.de/api/components/<name>.json` — returns metadata plus the inlined raw `source`.
   If it has a `usage` field, read it before placing the component: `whenNot` and `instead` say
   when a different component is the right answer.
3. Write `source` into the project (e.g. `components/ui/<name>.tsx`).
4. Resolve `registryDependencies` recursively — each entry is another component slug or a shared
   lib (`lib-utils` → `lib/utils.ts`, the `cn` helper). Fetch and add each the same way.
5. Install the npm packages in `dependencies`.

Always start from **https://ui-lib.quebi.de/llms.txt**, which documents the workflow and lists every component.

## Conventions to preserve

- Components import the shared `cn` helper from `@/lib/utils` and siblings from `@/components/<name>`.
  `@/` is the project `src/` alias — rewrite it if the target project uses a different alias.
- Form components have **Conform-bound variants** named `conform-*` (e.g. `conform-checkbox`,
  `conform-select`, `conform-date-picker`). Use these when building forms with the Conform library;
  they bind name/validity/errors from field metadata.
- The library assumes Tailwind v4 and the quebi theme (`quebi-bg`, `quebi-fg`,
  `quebi-hairline`, `quebi-action`, `quebi-signal`, `text-quebi-display-*`, …). If the target
  project lacks them, bring in the quebi theme too.
- The app surface: ink and paper with one hue. `quebi-action` (slate, `quebi-on-action` on top) fills
  the one primary button per view; `quebi-signal` (dusty blue) only ever means state — a checked box,
  progress, a link, focus — and a selected row or item is `bg-quebi-selected text-quebi-on-selected`;
  toasts and tooltips are `bg-quebi-overlay`. `quebi-hairline` separates and edges controls,
  `quebi-rule` is the structural line under a table header; `quebi-danger/warn/success` are text
  values reserved for state. Controls round through `rounded-(--q-radius-control)` (6px), cards and
  dialogs `rounded-(--q-radius-surface)` (10px); only floating surfaces take `shadow-quebi-float`.
  The website surface (Stage, the home page) lives inside `quebi-editorial`: square, ink, no hue.

## Rules — how to write JSX against this library

These rules are written for the code an agent writes. Not because agents are careless — because they optimise for the shortest path to something that looks right, and four specific detours are the predictable result.

- **It rebuilds what already exists.** Asked for a card, a button, a badge, an agent writes one. Producing four Tailwind classes is faster and more certain than discovering that the library ships the component — and the result renders correctly, so nothing in review objects. The same reflex reaches past the library for the values inside those components: toLocaleString() is one call, and it looks right on the machine that wrote it. Repeated across a codebase, that is how a design system stops being a system: not through one bad decision, but through fifty reasonable ones in fifty files. And once it has found the component, it uses it for every box — a card per section inside a card — which is the library's own surface, pressed into service as a layout.
- **It hand-rolls forms it was told to bind.** Forms are where an agent's training data pulls hardest against the project's conventions. It writes useState, value, onChange and a literal name because that is the shape it has seen most often, rather than reading the binding off Conform's field metadata or posting to a React Router action. The form submits, so it looks finished — while the error wiring, the default values, and the server-side validation are simply absent.
- **It takes the shortcut the runtime offers.** A global needs no import, no provider and no discovery. alert() is there; Array.prototype.sort is there; both produce something that works on the first click, in the one tab the agent can see. Neither is wrong as JavaScript, which is what makes them hard to catch in review. But alert() draws a dialog the design system does not own, cannot theme and cannot render in a test, and sorting the rows already in memory reorders the answer the server just gave rather than asking it a different question — so the table and the query behind it quietly stop agreeing. The shape that would have been right in both cases — a toast under a provider, an awaited confirmation under another, a re-query through the callback the component already exposes — costs an import and a round trip. The shortcut costs neither, and that is the whole of its appeal.
- **It appends until the file is unreadable.** Adding to the file already open is the cheapest edit available, and an agent never has to scroll the result. Nothing pushes back at 400 lines, or 900, or 2,000 — and past that point no human reviews the file properly and every later agent edit starts from a worse position, because reading it costs more and landing an edit in the right place is less certain.

They are lint rules rather than lines in a prompt because a rule is checked on every file, and its
message names the replacement at the point of the mistake. Run them (see below) and you get the
correction directly; you do not have to remember any of this.

**Layout is yours. Appearance is the library's.**

- Tier 1 — **Never render interactive or semantic HTML elements directly.** button, input, select, textarea, a, form, label, dialog and table are the library's. Import the component instead — this holds whether or not you style the element.
- Tier 2 — **Layout elements are yours — until their classes describe appearance.** div, span, section, ul, li and friends are fine and necessary. Keep their classes to layout and spacing; the moment you add bg-*, border-*, rounded-*, shadow-* or text sizing/colour you are rebuilding a component that already exists.
- Tier 3 — **Design values come from quebi tokens, never from literals.** No arbitrary values (bg-[#f00], text-[13px]), no raw Tailwind palette scales (text-gray-500), no hex in style props. Use the quebi token that means the thing — and if a value is genuinely domain-mandated, record it as an exception with its justification.
- Tier 4 — **Import the library's components, not the primitives underneath them.** react-aria-components is ui-lib's dependency, not yours. In app code import <Button> from @/components/button, never from react-aria-components — the primitive is unstyled and knows nothing about the quebi variants.
- Tier 5 — **Keep a route or component file under 500 lines.** A file past 500 lines is doing more than one job. Split it — extract the sub-components, move the helpers, lift the data. This is a warning, not an error: the number is a prompt to look, not a law.
- Tier 6 — **Format numbers and dates through the library, with an explicit locale.** toLocaleString() and a bare new Intl.NumberFormat() resolve against whatever locale the runtime happens to have, and a .toString() rendered as JSX text prints the wire format in all of them. Render FormattedNumber / FormattedDate, or call formatNumber / formatCurrency with a locale you passed in.
- Tier 7 — **A card inside a card is a section.** Never write a Card inside another Card. The inner one is separating part of the outer one from the rest, and a Heading does that — with a Separator if a line is needed. Items that share the same fields are rows in a Table or a list, not cards.

**Validation is yours. Wiring is the library's.**

- Tier 1 — **Bind fields through Conform, never by hand.** Take the binding off the field metadata: the conform-* variant, which every submittable control now has, getInputProps (or useControl) for anything else, and getFormProps on the form element. Per-field useState and a hand-passed name are the failure mode.
- Tier 2 — **Label, description and error come from the field — not from markup beside it.** Use the field's own slots: the label/description props on a conform-* variant, Label and Description inside a react-aria field, and for errors either FieldError (inside a field context) or an element carrying id={field.errorId}. A red paragraph next to a control is not attached to it.
- Tier 3 — **Validate on the server with the same schema.** Client validation is UX. Export one schema, parse it again in the route action, return submission.reply(), and feed that back through useForm({ lastResult }) — a form whose only validation is onValidate is an unvalidated form.
- Tier 4 — **Never spread getInputProps onto a Checkbox or Switch.** getInputProps emits the DOM names, defaultChecked and required; react-aria's Checkbox and Switch read defaultSelected (and isRequired, on Checkbox) and drop the others without a word. Use ConformCheckbox or ConformSwitch.
- Tier 5 — **Gate lastResult on an idle navigation.** Pass lastResult only while the navigation is idle — `navigation.state === "idle" ? lastResult : null`. Conform re-reports the result on every render, so an ungated one is applied before React Router has finished revalidating the loader data behind it.
- Tier 6 — **An intent button submits — never type="button".** getButtonProps supplies name, value, form and formNoValidate, but never type. A Conform intent button has to be type="submit": with type="button" no submit event fires and the insert, remove or reorder is dropped in silence.

**The platform will do it for you. That is not the same as your app doing it.**

- **Never alert(), confirm() or prompt().** These three draw the browser's own dialog: unthemed, blocking, and outside React's tree. Show feedback with a Toast under a ToastProvider, and ask a question with `await confirm(...)` from useConfirm() under a ConfirmProvider.
- **Sorting a server-driven table is a query, not an array method.** ServerTable is controlled: it reports the whole new query through onQueryChange and draws its header from the query it was given. Re-query and pass the rows back. If the whole dataset is already in the browser, that is a DataTable, not a ServerTable.

Full records (rationale, real wrong/right pairs from the library's own source, and documented
exceptions) at **https://ui-lib.quebi.de/api/rules.json**, or human-readable at **https://ui-lib.quebi.de/rules**.

To *check* code rather than just follow the rules, every record carries a `checks` array of runnable
snippets generated from it, and all of them are published merged as one Biome config:

```sh
curl -O https://ui-lib.quebi.de/api/rules/biome.jsonc
```

Biome parses TSX natively, so there is nothing else to configure. Rules Biome has no built-in for
ship as GritQL plugins listed in that file's `plugins` key — fetch each one alongside it. In a repo
with no linter at all, use the `ripgrep` entry in each rule's `checks` array; it needs nothing
installed.

## Don't

- ❌ Don't reinvent a component the library already has — check the catalog first.
- ❌ Don't hand-write the component API from memory — fetch the real source.
- ❌ Don't hand-roll a `<button>`, `<input>`, `<a>` or `<dialog>` in app code — import the component
  (see the rules above). This holds even when the element is unstyled.
- ❌ Don't wrap everything in a `Card` — no card in a card, no card per list item, no card grid for
  records that share their fields. Its `usage` names what to use instead.
- ❌ Don't forget the `registryDependencies` (the component won't compile without `lib/utils` and any
  sibling components).