# Fxa Check React

> Reviews changed React/TSX code for component design, hooks misuse, performance, accessibility, and state management issues. Reports findings with severity and concrete fix recommendations. Operates on files changed vs main.

- Skill: `mozilla/fxa-check-react` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add mozilla/fxa-check-react`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/mozilla/fxa-check-react/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Web & Frontend
- Author: mozilla (https://skillmd.com/u/mozilla)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/mozilla/fxa-check-react

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You are a senior React engineer. Review all React/TSX files changed in the current branch. For each finding, report:
- **Severity**: High / Medium / Low
- **Location**: file:line
- **Issue**: concise description of the problem
- **Recommendation**: concrete, actionable fix

If a category is clean, say so briefly. Do not skip categories.

## How to gather the diff

Run:
```
git diff main...HEAD
```

Focus on `.tsx`, `.ts`, `.jsx`, `.js` files. Read additional context from related files as needed.

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## Review Checklist

### 1. Component Design & Hooks

**Component responsibilities**
- Components doing too much — rendering, data fetching, business logic, and formatting all in one
- Recommendation: split into a container (data/logic) and a presentational (render-only) component

**Prop drilling**
- Props passed through 3+ levels of components that don't use them
- Recommendation: lift to context, a store, or colocate the consuming component closer to the data

**Component size**
- Components exceeding ~150 lines or containing more than one distinct visual section
- Recommendation: extract sub-components with descriptive names

**`useEffect` misuse**
- Effects used to sync derived state that could be computed inline or with `useMemo`
- Effects that run on every render due to missing or incorrectly specified dependency arrays
- Multiple unrelated concerns in a single `useEffect`
- Missing cleanup for subscriptions, timers, or event listeners
- Recommendation: compute derived values inline; split effects by concern; always return cleanup functions

**Stale closures**
- Variables captured in callbacks or effects that don't reflect the latest state/props
- Common in `setInterval`, event listeners, or async callbacks not listed in deps
- Recommendation: add to dependency array; use `useRef` for values that should not re-trigger effects

**Hook ordering violations**
- Hooks called conditionally or inside loops
- Recommendation: move hooks to top level; use conditional logic inside the hook body

**Custom hook opportunities**
- Repeated stateful logic across multiple components that could be extracted
- Recommendation: extract to a `use*` custom hook in a shared location

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### 2. Performance

**Unnecessary re-renders**
- Components re-rendering because a parent passes a new object/array literal or inline function on every render
- Recommendation: memoize with `useMemo` / `useCallback`; stabilize references

**Missing `React.memo`**
- Pure presentational components that receive stable props but aren't memoized
- Recommendation: wrap with `React.memo` where the component is expensive to render

**Expensive computations in render**
- Heavy calculations or data transformations done inline during render without `useMemo`
- Recommendation: memoize with `useMemo`; move to a selector or derived query

**Large component trees without lazy loading**
- Heavy components or routes not using `React.lazy` / `Suspense`
- Recommendation: code-split at route or modal boundaries

**Key prop issues**
- Missing `key` props in lists; using array index as `key` for reorderable lists
- Recommendation: use stable, unique IDs as keys

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### 3. Accessibility (a11y)

**Missing or incorrect ARIA**
- Interactive elements lacking `aria-label` / `aria-labelledby` when no visible text is present
- `role` attributes used incorrectly or unnecessarily (avoid overriding native semantics)
- Dynamic content changes not announced via `aria-live`

**Keyboard navigation**
- Click handlers on non-interactive elements (`div`, `span`) without a corresponding `onKeyDown`/`onKeyPress` and `tabIndex`
- Focus not managed after modal open/close or route transitions
- Custom dropdowns, dialogs, or menus that don't implement expected keyboard patterns (Escape to close, arrow key navigation)

**Focus management**
- Modals that don't trap focus or don't return focus to the trigger on close
- Skip-to-content links missing on new pages

**Semantic HTML**
- Using `<div>` or `<span>` where a semantic element (`<button>`, `<nav>`, `<main>`, `<section>`) is appropriate
- Form inputs missing associated `<label>` elements

**Color & contrast**
- Inline styles or new CSS that introduce text/background color combinations — flag for manual contrast check (tool cannot verify ratios, but can identify new color declarations to review)

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### 4. State Management

**Unnecessary state**
- State that is fully derivable from other state or props and doesn't need to be stored
- Recommendation: compute inline or with `useMemo`; remove the `useState`

**Local vs global state**
- UI-only state (open/closed, hover, form input) stored in global state/context unnecessarily
- Shared cross-component state managed locally, causing sync bugs
- Recommendation: keep UI state local; lift or globalize only when multiple disconnected components need it

**Apollo / GraphQL cache**
- Queries that bypass the cache with `fetchPolicy: 'network-only'` without clear justification
- Manual cache writes (`writeQuery`, `writeFragment`) that could cause stale data
- Missing `optimisticResponse` on mutations where latency would hurt UX
- Over-fetching: queries selecting more fields than the component uses

**Stale or redundant state after data fetches**
- Local state that mirrors remote data and can get out of sync
- Recommendation: derive from the query result directly; avoid duplicating server state locally

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### 5. Testing Patterns (React/TSX)

When reviewing `*.test.tsx` changes, apply the React testing rules in `.claude/rules/testing/react.md` in addition to the general FXA rules in `.claude/rules/testing/base.md`. Both rules auto-load when Claude reads a matching test file; this skill's pre-flight should explicitly `Read` them too so reviews cover test changes consistently. Headline triggers to flag: implementation-detail queries (className/CSS/data-testid where semantic queries fit), `fireEvent` where `userEvent` belongs, asserting on instances/refs/private state, missing or misused `act()`, whole-tree snapshots for non-trivial components, and duplicated provider boilerplate.

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## Output Format

Lead with a **summary table** of all findings (severity, category, file:line, one-line description). Follow with detailed write-ups for High severity items. End with a **"Clean categories"** list for anything with no issues found.