| name | component-catalog |
| description | How Inkline components are built and kept consistent — the headless/styled split, family anatomy, prop/axis conventions, recipe consumption, the current 5-family catalog and its gap list. Use when authoring, documenting, showcasing, or reviewing components. |
The Inkline component catalog
The catalog lives in ui/components/src/components/ — the single source of truth compiled to all 7 framework packages. It is what users adopt Inkline FOR. Consistency is the product: learning one component must teach all of them. The step-by-step build procedure lives in the phase skills (research/implement/stories/test/document-component, orchestrated by create-component); this skill is the catalog knowledge that keeps them coherent.
Family anatomy (the law of the land)
<name>/
├── headless/I<Name>Base.ink.tsx # behavior + accessibility, one per part, NO styling
├── styled/I<Name>.ink.tsx # ONE per family — composes all parts + recipe classes
├── styled/I<Name>.styleframe.ts # registers recipes + custom CSS for the family
├── stories/I<Name>.ink.stories.ts # defineStories meta (args, argTypes, variants)
├── stories/<Variant>.ink.tsx # render helpers (<div id="story"> grids)
└── */__snapshots__/, *.ink.test.ts # colocated tests per part + styled
- Headless parts own structure, slots, events, ARIA — zero tokens, zero recipe classes; a single host-element root so the styled layer's
class falls through. They are what consumers swap in to bring their own styling (exported as I<Name>*Base via the headless.ts barrel).
- One styled component per family, never one per part.
input/ is the model: five headless parts (shell, control, prefix, suffix, textarea), one IInput composing them. Optional addons gate on <Show when={hasSlot("prefix")}> with :empty collapse rules for Qwik/Angular.
- Registration: styled + headless exports in
src/components/index.ts; internal-only parts (e.g. IInputTextareaBase) may stay unexported — deliberate, not an omission.
Props & axes
interface <Name>Props extends <Name>BaseProps, <Name>StylingProps {} where styling props alias the recipe's own types from virtual:styleframe — one source of truth for axis values. When recipe types collide with native ones (disabled: "true" | "false" | boolean), enumerate styling props explicitly (see IInput) — the compiler only enumerates directly-named interfaces.- The standard axes come from
@styleframe/theme and are law: color (9: primary, secondary, success, info, warning, error, light, dark, neutral) × variant (6: solid, outline, soft, subtle, ghost, link) × size (5: xs–xl). A component with clever one-off axes is worth less than nothing; extra booleans (block, loading) are fine as layered modifiers.
- Recipe classes render as
<name> <name>--<axis>-<value> (e.g. button button--color-primary button--size-md); Angular SSR sorts class keys alphabetically — write assertions accordingly.
- TSDoc on every public prop — it feeds the future docs site and IDE surface.
Styleframe consumption (styled/I<Name>.styleframe.ts)
import { styleframe } from "virtual:styleframe";
import { useButtonRecipe } from "@styleframe/theme";
const s = styleframe();
s.selector(".button--block", { width: "100%" });
export const buttonRecipe = useButtonRecipe(s);
Reuse use<Name>Recipe from @styleframe/theme when it exists; author locally with the same axes when it doesn't (and file the upstream recipe request via @bridge). Custom values use tokens (ref()/@-refs), never hardcodes. Animations respect reduced motion. Slot-gated addons always ship :empty collapse rules.
Definition of done (a component ships as a set)
Source + stories (meta with typed args/argTypes + per-axis render helpers) + colocated tests (~100% on its executable code; Angular SSR real-DOM checks via mountStyledOnAngular) + TSDoc + changesets for each affected framework package (@inkline/components itself is ignore-listed). Compile must be clean across all 7 targets with only the expected notices (INK0045 Astro two-way, INK0068 Qwik/Angular hasSlot). Partial deliveries create the doc-drift disease this team was built to cure.
Catalog snapshot (5 families — verify with ls ui/components/src/components)
badge (1 part — the canonical single-part exemplar) · button (stateful + custom styles: spinner, block) · field-group (1) · hamburger-menu (1) · input (5 parts, two-way defineModel, slots — the multi-part exemplar). 13 barrel exports.
The gap list (the runway)
@styleframe/theme ships ~39 recipe families; Inkline has components for 5. Build next where the recipe already exists upstream, roughly: checkbox · radio · switch · select · textarea (standalone) · card · callout/alert · spinner · progress · avatar · chip · tooltip · tabs · accordion · dropdown · modal · drawer · popover · nav · breadcrumb · pagination · sidebar · skeleton/placeholder · slider · toggle · otp · calendar · media · color-picker · chat-message · context-menu · page-hero. Recipes styleframe lacks (toast, combobox, date-picker, data-table, command palette, stepper) block on upstream — coordinate via @bridge; don't author one-off local styles for a family styleframe is about to ship. Priority unclear → ask @maestro, don't pick a favorite.
