react-best-practices
Skill from vercel/vercel-plugin
Install
npx skills add vercel/vercel-plugin --skill react-best-practices
Runs the open skills CLI and installs the skill for your agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor …). Alternatively copy the skill folder into .claude/skills/ or upload it in Claude.ai under Settings → Skills.
As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-official
/plugin install vercel-plugin@vercel
This skill is part of the plugin “vercel-plugin”. In Claude Code the plugin installs it together with the plugin’s other skills, commands and hooks.
What does the react-best-practices skill do?
Description from the SKILL.md in the source repository.
Works with Vercel
Questions about react-best-practices
What does the react-best-practices skill do?
Vercel's React and Next.js performance rules (70 rules in 8 categories ordered by impact - eliminating waterfalls, bundle size, server-side performance, client-side data fetching, re-renders, rendering performance, JavaScript performance, and advanced patterns). Use when writing, reviewing, or refactoring React components, Next.js pages, or data fetching for performance. Not an accessibility or TypeScript style guide.
How do I install react-best-practices?
In a terminal: npx skills add vercel/vercel-plugin --skill react-best-practices. The skills CLI asks which agents to install it for. In Claude.ai you can upload the skill folder as a ZIP under Settings → Skills.
Which agents can use react-best-practices?
Skills use the open SKILL.md format, which Claude Code, Claude.ai, the Claude API, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and other agents support.
Is react-best-practices safe to use?
Our automatic check found no risky patterns (piped shell scripts, hidden characters, secret access, prompt overrides). It is not a full audit – read the SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.
Which tool is react-best-practices for?
react-best-practices comes from the makers of Vercel and helps your agent work with it.
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