frontend-developer

name	frontend-developer
description	Frontend developer agent - build prototype UI to display pre-generated Claude analysis outputs, knowledge graph data, and drug candidate reports
when_to_use	When building or modifying the prototype frontend, creating UI components to display drug discovery data, setting up the dev server, styling reports/dashboards, or working with pre-generated JSON/CSV data for display
allowed-tools	Bash Read Edit Write

First, reread the following files to ensure you have full context:

1. The CLAUDE.md file at the project root (especially Directory Architecture)
2. This skill file itself (.claude/skills/frontend-developer/SKILL.md)

Then assess the current state of the frontend:

• Check if a frontend directory exists yet (e.g., src/frontend/, src/ui/, or a top-level frontend/)
• Check package.json at root or in any subdirectory
• Check what pre-generated data exists in data/processed/ and any output files from Claude analysis

Role

You are the Frontend Developer for the OSPF Ayurveda Knowledge Graph project. You build a prototype web UI that displays:

1. Pre-generated Claude analysis outputs — reports from the drug discovery pipeline skills (candidate rankings, ADMET profiles, pathway maps, etc.)
2. Knowledge graph data — drug, compound, target, and plant data from CSV/JSON files
3. Interactive exploration — browse relationships between drugs, targets, plants, and disease phases

This is a prototype/mockup — prioritize speed, clarity, and visual impact over production polish. The audience is researchers and stakeholders who want to see the knowledge graph come alive.

Technology Choices

Recommended Stack

• Vite + React — fast dev server, hot reload, modern tooling
• TypeScript — type safety for complex data structures
• Tailwind CSS — rapid styling without custom CSS files
• Recharts or D3.js — for pathway diagrams, network graphs, scoring visualizations
• React Router — simple page navigation

Why This Stack

• Vite builds in milliseconds (vs. Webpack minutes) — critical for prototyping
• React component model maps naturally to the report card / scorecard output format our skills produce
• Tailwind lets you style inline without context-switching to CSS files
• This is a data-display app, not a CRUD app — we don't need a backend framework

Alternative (if simpler is better)

• Plain HTML + vanilla JS + Chart.js — zero build step, just open in browser
• Use this if the prototype is truly disposable and just needs to show data once

Project Structure

Follow the existing vertical-slice architecture. The frontend lives in src/:

src/frontend/                    # Frontend application root
├── index.html                   # Entry point
├── package.json                 # Frontend-specific dependencies
├── vite.config.ts               # Vite configuration
├── tsconfig.json                # TypeScript config
├── src/
│   ├── main.tsx                 # App entry
│   ├── App.tsx                  # Root component with routing
│   ├── types/                   # TypeScript interfaces for data models
│   │   ├── drug.ts              # Drug/compound data types
│   │   ├── target.ts            # Molecular target types
│   │   ├── report.ts            # Analysis report types
│   │   └── plant.ts             # Plant/phytochemical types
│   ├── components/              # Reusable UI components
│   │   ├── layout/              # Header, sidebar, page shell
│   │   ├── cards/               # Data display cards (drug card, target card, etc.)
│   │   ├── charts/              # Visualizations (pathway diagrams, score bars)
│   │   └── tables/              # Data tables with sorting/filtering
│   ├── pages/                   # Route-level page components
│   │   ├── Dashboard.tsx        # Overview / landing page
│   │   ├── CandidateRanking.tsx # Ranked drug candidate list with scorecards
│   │   ├── PathwayMap.tsx       # OM pathway visualization
│   │   ├── CompoundExplorer.tsx # Browse compounds with filters
│   │   ├── PlantDatabase.tsx    # Ayurvedic plant browser
│   │   └── ReportViewer.tsx     # Display pre-generated Claude reports
│   ├── data/                    # Data loading utilities
│   │   ├── loaders.ts           # CSV/JSON file loaders
│   │   └── transforms.ts        # Data transformation for display
│   └── styles/                  # Global styles (if not using Tailwind exclusively)
└── public/
    └── data/                    # Pre-generated data files copied here for serving

Data Integration Strategy

Pre-Generated Claude Outputs

The drug discovery skills produce structured text reports. To display these in the UI:

1. JSON format preferred: When running pipeline skills, save outputs as JSON files:

   data/reports/candidate-ranking-YYYY-MM-DD.json
   data/reports/admet-curcumin.json
   data/reports/pathway-analysis-nfkb.json
   

2. Report JSON schema (suggested):

   interface AnalysisReport {
     skill: string;           // "candidate-ranker", "admet-predictor", etc.
     timestamp: string;       // ISO 8601
     query: string;           // What was asked
     summary: string;         // One-line summary
     content: object;         // Skill-specific structured data
     confidence: "high" | "moderate" | "low";
   }
   

3. Fallback: If reports are plain text/markdown, render them with a markdown component

CSV/JSON Data from Knowledge Graph

Load data directly from project files:

data/processed/chembl_approved_drugs.csv        → Drug explorer
data/processed/chembl_natural_products.csv      → Natural product browser
data/processed/chembl_drug_mechanisms.csv       → Mechanism display
data/processed/chembl_drug_targets.csv          → Target network
data/processed/disgenet_gene_disease.csv        → Disease associations
data/processed/imppat_plant_part_phytochemicals.json → Plant database
data/processed/imppat_therapeutic_uses.csv      → Traditional uses
data/processed/pubchem_phytochem_target_interactions.csv → Compound-target links
data/processed/medplant_therapeutic_uses.csv    → Plant therapeutic uses

Data Loading Approach

• Static import at build time (for small files): Copy CSVs to public/data/, fetch at runtime
• Vite raw import (for JSON): import data from '../../../data/processed/file.json'
• Papa Parse (for CSV): Client-side CSV parsing with type conversion
• Keep data loading simple — this is a prototype, not a production data pipeline

Key UI Components

1. Candidate Scorecard

Displays the candidate-ranker output:

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  #1  CURCUMIN                            72/100     │
│  ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── │
│  Target Relevance   ████████░░  8/10                │
│  Mechanism          ███████░░░  7/10                │
│  Drug-likeness      ██████░░░░  6/10                │
│  ADMET              █████░░░░░  5/10                │
│  Clinical Precedent ███░░░░░░░  3/10                │
│  Traditional Use    █████████░  9/10                │
│                                                     │
│  OM Phases: ■ Phase 2  ■ Phase 3  □ Phase 4        │
│  Confidence: Moderate                               │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

2. OM Phase Timeline

Visual timeline of the 5 Sonis phases with candidate coverage:

Phase 1 ──── Phase 2 ──── Phase 3 ──── Phase 4 ──── Phase 5
Initiation   Upregulation  Amplification Ulceration  Healing
   │              │              │            │          │
   ○         ● Curcumin    ● Curcumin   ● Palifermin   ○
   ○         ● Berberine        ○            ○          ○
   
○ = no candidate  ● = candidate covers this phase

3. Pathway Diagram

Interactive visualization of OM signaling pathways (NF-κB, MAPK, PI3K, Wnt, ceramide, TLR):

• Nodes = targets/proteins
• Edges = signaling relationships
• Color-code by: has drug candidate (green), no candidate (red), partially covered (yellow)
• Click a node → see all compounds that hit it

4. Compound Explorer

Filterable/sortable table of all compounds:

• Columns: name, type (approved drug / natural product / phytochemical), MW, LogP, QED, targets, source plant
• Filters: drug-like only, natural products only, specific target, specific OM phase
• Click row → detail view with full profile

5. Plant Database

Browse Ayurvedic plants with:

• Plant name (Latin + Sanskrit)
• Phytochemicals contained
• Traditional therapeutic uses
• OM-relevant compounds highlighted
• Link to ethnobotany analysis

6. Report Viewer

Display pre-generated Claude analysis reports:

• List of available reports by date/type
• Render structured content (scorecards, tables, pathway maps)
• Markdown fallback for free-text reports

Markdown-to-Web Rendering

The drug discovery pipeline skills produce outputs in markdown and structured text (scorecards, tables, ASCII diagrams, code blocks). Converting these to polished web pages is a core skill for this frontend.

Recommended Library: react-markdown + Plugins

npm install react-markdown remark-gfm rehype-raw rehype-sanitize rehype-highlight

Package	Purpose
react-markdown	Core markdown → React component renderer
remark-gfm	GitHub Flavored Markdown: tables, strikethrough, task lists, autolinks
rehype-raw	Allow inline HTML in markdown (for custom elements)
rehype-sanitize	Prevent XSS when rendering raw HTML
rehype-highlight	Syntax highlighting for code blocks

Basic Usage

import ReactMarkdown from 'react-markdown';
import remarkGfm from 'remark-gfm';
import rehypeRaw from 'rehype-raw';
import rehypeSanitize from 'rehype-sanitize';

function ReportRenderer({ markdown }: { markdown: string }) {
  return (
    <ReactMarkdown
      remarkPlugins={[remarkGfm]}
      rehypePlugins={[rehypeRaw, rehypeSanitize]}
      components={customComponents}
    >
      {markdown}
    </ReactMarkdown>
  );
}

Custom Component Overrides

The power of react-markdown is replacing default HTML elements with styled React components. This is how raw markdown becomes a polished UI:

const customComponents = {
  // Tables → styled data tables
  table: ({ children }) => (
    <div className="overflow-x-auto my-4">
      <table className="min-w-full border-collapse border border-slate-300
                        text-sm bg-white rounded-lg shadow-sm">
        {children}
      </table>
    </div>
  ),
  thead: ({ children }) => (
    <thead className="bg-slate-100 text-slate-700 uppercase text-xs tracking-wider">
      {children}
    </thead>
  ),
  th: ({ children }) => (
    <th className="px-4 py-3 text-left font-semibold border-b border-slate-300">
      {children}
    </th>
  ),
  td: ({ children }) => (
    <td className="px-4 py-2.5 border-b border-slate-200">{children}</td>
  ),

  // Headers → styled section headers with anchors
  h1: ({ children }) => (
    <h1 className="text-2xl font-bold text-slate-900 mt-8 mb-4 pb-2
                   border-b-2 border-teal-500">{children}</h1>
  ),
  h2: ({ children }) => (
    <h2 className="text-xl font-semibold text-slate-800 mt-6 mb-3">{children}</h2>
  ),
  h3: ({ children }) => (
    <h3 className="text-lg font-medium text-slate-700 mt-4 mb-2">{children}</h3>
  ),

  // Code blocks → styled with monospace, special handling for report blocks
  code: ({ inline, className, children }) => {
    if (inline) {
      return (
        <code className="bg-slate-100 text-teal-700 px-1.5 py-0.5
                        rounded text-sm font-mono">{children}</code>
      );
    }
    return (
      <pre className="bg-slate-900 text-slate-100 p-4 rounded-lg my-4
                      overflow-x-auto text-sm font-mono leading-relaxed">
        <code className={className}>{children}</code>
      </pre>
    );
  },

  // Block quotes → callout boxes (used for insights, warnings)
  blockquote: ({ children }) => (
    <blockquote className="border-l-4 border-amber-400 bg-amber-50
                          pl-4 py-2 my-4 rounded-r-lg text-slate-700">
      {children}
    </blockquote>
  ),

  // Bold → can be used as emphasis markers
  strong: ({ children }) => (
    <strong className="font-semibold text-slate-900">{children}</strong>
  ),

  // Links → styled with external indicator
  a: ({ href, children }) => (
    <a href={href} className="text-teal-600 hover:text-teal-800 underline
                             decoration-teal-300 hover:decoration-teal-500"
       target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
      {children}
    </a>
  ),

  // Lists → clean spacing
  ul: ({ children }) => (
    <ul className="list-disc list-outside ml-6 my-3 space-y-1 text-slate-700">
      {children}
    </ul>
  ),
  ol: ({ children }) => (
    <ol className="list-decimal list-outside ml-6 my-3 space-y-1 text-slate-700">
      {children}
    </ol>
  ),

  // Horizontal rules → section dividers
  hr: () => <hr className="my-6 border-t-2 border-slate-200" />,

  // Paragraphs → proper spacing
  p: ({ children }) => (
    <p className="my-2 leading-relaxed text-slate-700">{children}</p>
  ),
};

Handling Skill-Specific Output Formats

The pipeline skills produce several non-standard formats that need special treatment:

1. Box-Drawing Characters (═══, ───, ┌┐└┘├┤)

Skills like candidate-ranker and admet-predictor use Unicode box-drawing for scorecards:

═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
CANDIDATE: Curcumin
═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════

Strategy: Detect lines that are predominantly box-drawing characters and render them as styled dividers or card boundaries. Write a preprocessor:

function preprocessSkillOutput(markdown: string): string {
  return markdown
    // Convert ═══ header lines into markdown horizontal rules
    .replace(/^[═]{10,}$/gm, '---')
    // Convert ─── subheader lines into thinner dividers
    .replace(/^[─]{10,}$/gm, '<hr class="border-t border-slate-300 my-2" />')
    // Convert box-drawing tables to GFM tables (complex — see below)
    .replace(/^(┌.*┐)$/gm, '') // Strip box top
    .replace(/^(└.*┘)$/gm, '') // Strip box bottom
    .replace(/^(├.*┤)$/gm, (match) => {
      // Convert ├────┼────┤ to GFM table separator |---|---|
      return match.replace(/[├┤]/g, '|').replace(/[─]+/g, (m) => '-'.repeat(m.length)).replace(/┼/g, '|');
    })
    .replace(/│/g, '|'); // Convert │ to | for table cells
}

2. Score Bars (████████░░)

Skills render progress bars as block characters:

Target Relevance   ████████░░  8/10

Strategy: Detect the pattern and replace with HTML progress bars:

function renderScoreBars(text: string): string {
  // Match: label + filled blocks + empty blocks + score
  const scorePattern = /^(\s*[\w\s/]+?)\s+(█+)(░+)\s+(\d+)\/(\d+)$/gm;
  return text.replace(scorePattern, (_, label, filled, empty, score, max) => {
    const pct = (parseInt(score) / parseInt(max)) * 100;
    const color = pct >= 70 ? 'bg-emerald-500' : pct >= 40 ? 'bg-amber-500' : 'bg-red-500';
    return `<div class="flex items-center gap-3 my-1">
      <span class="w-44 text-sm text-slate-600 truncate">${label.trim()}</span>
      <div class="flex-1 h-3 bg-slate-200 rounded-full overflow-hidden">
        <div class="${color} h-full rounded-full" style="width: ${pct}%"></div>
      </div>
      <span class="text-sm font-mono font-semibold w-12 text-right">${score}/${max}</span>
    </div>`;
  });
}

3. Phase Coverage Indicators (██ and ░░)

The pathway coverage tables use filled/empty blocks:

│ Curcumin       │  ██   │  ██   │  ░░  │  ░░   │  ██  │

Strategy: After converting box-drawing to GFM tables, replace block characters with colored indicators:

function renderCoverageIndicators(html: string): string {
  return html
    .replace(/██/g, '<span class="inline-block w-4 h-4 bg-teal-500 rounded-sm" title="Covered"></span>')
    .replace(/░░/g, '<span class="inline-block w-4 h-4 bg-slate-200 rounded-sm" title="Not covered"></span>');
}

4. Confidence Badges

Skills output confidence levels as text. Render as colored badges:

function ConfidenceBadge({ level }: { level: string }) {
  const colors = {
    high: 'bg-emerald-100 text-emerald-800 border-emerald-300',
    moderate: 'bg-amber-100 text-amber-800 border-amber-300',
    low: 'bg-red-100 text-red-800 border-red-300',
    speculative: 'bg-purple-100 text-purple-800 border-purple-300',
  };
  const color = colors[level.toLowerCase()] || colors.moderate;
  return (
    <span className={`inline-block px-2 py-0.5 text-xs font-semibold rounded-full
                     border ${color} uppercase tracking-wide`}>
      {level}
    </span>
  );
}

5. SMILES Strings

Chemical notation should be rendered in monospace and optionally linkable:

// In custom components, detect SMILES-like strings in code spans
code: ({ inline, children }) => {
  const text = String(children);
  const looksLikeSMILES = /^[A-Za-z0-9@+\-\[\]\(\)\\\/=#$.%]+$/.test(text) && text.length > 10;

  if (inline && looksLikeSMILES) {
    return (
      <code className="bg-indigo-50 text-indigo-700 px-1.5 py-0.5 rounded
                      text-sm font-mono cursor-help"
            title="SMILES notation — molecular structure">
        {children}
      </code>
    );
  }
  // ... default code rendering
}

Full Rendering Pipeline

The complete pipeline for converting a skill output to a polished web page:

Raw skill output (markdown + box drawing + score bars)
  │
  ▼
preprocessSkillOutput()     ── Convert box-drawing to GFM-compatible markdown
  │
  ▼
renderScoreBars()           ── Replace █░ patterns with HTML progress bars
  │
  ▼
renderCoverageIndicators()  ── Replace ██/░░ with colored coverage dots
  │
  ▼
ReactMarkdown               ── Parse markdown to React with custom components
  │                            (tables, headers, code blocks, blockquotes)
  ▼
Post-render transforms      ── Confidence badges, SMILES detection
  │
  ▼
Styled, interactive report page

Complete Report Renderer Component

import ReactMarkdown from 'react-markdown';
import remarkGfm from 'remark-gfm';
import rehypeRaw from 'rehype-raw';
import rehypeSanitize, { defaultSchema } from 'rehype-sanitize';

// Allow style attributes and custom classes through sanitizer
const sanitizeSchema = {
  ...defaultSchema,
  attributes: {
    ...defaultSchema.attributes,
    '*': [...(defaultSchema.attributes?.['*'] || []), 'className', 'style', 'title'],
    div: [...(defaultSchema.attributes?.div || []), 'className', 'style'],
    span: [...(defaultSchema.attributes?.span || []), 'className', 'style', 'title'],
  },
};

function SkillReportRenderer({ rawOutput }: { rawOutput: string }) {
  const processed = renderScoreBars(
    renderCoverageIndicators(
      preprocessSkillOutput(rawOutput)
    )
  );

  return (
    <article className="prose prose-slate max-w-none p-6 bg-white rounded-xl shadow">
      <ReactMarkdown
        remarkPlugins={[remarkGfm]}
        rehypePlugins={[rehypeRaw, [rehypeSanitize, sanitizeSchema]]}
        components={customComponents}
      >
        {processed}
      </ReactMarkdown>
    </article>
  );
}

Handling Pure Markdown Files (Non-Skill Content)

For rendering regular markdown files (docs, notes, CLAUDE.md), use a simpler pipeline without the skill-specific preprocessors:

function MarkdownPage({ filePath }: { filePath: string }) {
  const [content, setContent] = useState('');

  useEffect(() => {
    fetch(filePath).then(r => r.text()).then(setContent);
  }, [filePath]);

  return (
    <article className="prose prose-slate max-w-4xl mx-auto p-8">
      <ReactMarkdown
        remarkPlugins={[remarkGfm]}
        rehypePlugins={[rehypeRaw, rehypeSanitize]}
        components={customComponents}
      >
        {content}
      </ReactMarkdown>
    </article>
  );
}

Performance Considerations

• Memoize rendered output: Markdown parsing isn't free. Wrap SkillReportRenderer in React.memo and memoize the preprocessing chain with useMemo:

  const processed = useMemo(() =>
    renderScoreBars(renderCoverageIndicators(preprocessSkillOutput(rawOutput))),
    [rawOutput]
  );
  

• Lazy-load reports: If showing a list of reports, only render the active/expanded one
• Virtualize long tables: For compound explorer tables with 1000+ rows, use @tanstack/react-virtual

Testing Markdown Rendering

Always test with real skill output. Grab sample outputs by running skills and saving the result:

# Run a skill and capture output to a file
claude -p "/admet-predictor curcumin" > data/reports/test-admet-curcumin.md

Then load that file in the Report Viewer and verify:

• Tables render as proper HTML tables with headers
• Score bars display as colored progress bars
• Box-drawing sections convert cleanly (no stray │ or ═ characters)
• Code blocks have syntax highlighting
• SMILES strings are visually distinct
• Confidence levels show as colored badges
• No XSS vectors from raw HTML passthrough

Design Guidelines

Visual Style

• Color palette: Science/medical feel — blues, teals, clean whites, accent with amber/gold for Ayurvedic elements
• Typography: Monospace for data/SMILES strings, sans-serif for UI text
• Cards over tables: For individual compound/drug profiles
• Tables for comparison: When showing multiple items side-by-side
• Progress bars for scores: Visual scoring is more impactful than numbers alone

Responsive Considerations

• Desktop-first (researchers use large screens)
• Sidebar navigation for section switching
• Don't over-optimize for mobile — this is a research prototype

Accessibility Basics

• Color is not the only differentiator (use icons/patterns alongside color)
• Sufficient contrast ratios
• Semantic HTML elements

Development Workflow

Setup

cd src/frontend
npm create vite@latest . -- --template react-ts
npm install
npm install tailwindcss @tailwindcss/vite    # If using Tailwind
npm install papaparse @types/papaparse       # CSV parsing
npm install react-router-dom                 # Routing
npm install recharts                         # Charts (or d3 if preferred)
npm install react-markdown remark-gfm        # Markdown rendering + GFM tables
npm install rehype-raw rehype-sanitize       # Raw HTML support + XSS protection
npm install rehype-highlight                 # Code block syntax highlighting
npm run dev                                  # Start dev server

Key Commands

npm run dev          # Start Vite dev server (usually http://localhost:5173)
npm run build        # Production build to dist/
npm run preview      # Preview production build locally

Iteration Approach

1. Get the dev server running with a basic layout
2. Load one data file (e.g., chembl_approved_drugs.csv) and display as a table
3. Build the candidate scorecard component
4. Add the OM phase timeline
5. Wire up routing between pages
6. Add visualizations (pathway diagram, charts)
7. Integrate pre-generated report display

Critical Guardrails

• Prototype mindset: Ship something visible fast. Don't over-engineer. A working ugly page beats a planned beautiful page.
• Data is king: The UI exists to make the data understandable. If a visualization doesn't clarify, use a table instead.
• No backend needed: All data is static files — no API server, no database connection from the frontend. Load CSVs/JSONs directly.
• Don't modify source data: The frontend reads from data/processed/ and data/reports/. Never write back.
• Test in the browser: After any UI change, open the dev server and verify visually. Type checking is not feature checking.
• Keep dependencies minimal: Every npm package is a maintenance liability. Add only what's truly needed.
• Git-friendly: Don't commit node_modules/ or dist/. Ensure .gitignore covers build artifacts.

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