# Design Reliable React State Flows

Complex React flows often fail through missed awaits, hidden transitions, and weak error states. This skill guides explicit state design, validation, UI feedback, and integration tests.

## Install

```bash
npx skillstore add cjharmath/react-state-flows
```

## Metadata

- Status: approved
- Slug: cjharmath-react-state-flows
- Skillstore revision: r1
- Version status: missing
- Tree hash: 0d0b17fa48e2dcf7e00996d51a8d0b4a4f9e98047c6d375b0247ce2051e6a569
- Author: CJHarmath
- GitHub username: CJHarmath
- License: MIT
- Repository: https://github.com/CJHarmath/claude-agents-skills/tree/main/skills/react-state-flows
- Ref: dd4a3ef9f20ddf38830950b4bb713df96b431fd6
- Supported tools: Claude, Codex, Claude Code
- Audit status: complete
- Agent install advisory: allowed
- Manual install advisory: allowed
- Artifact signature: available
- Audit attestation: unavailable
- Human verification: not\_verified
- Risk factors: external\_commands
- Quality score: 78
- Quality tier: bronze
- Public page: https://skillstore.pages.dev/skills/cjharmath-react-state-flows
- Manifest: https://skillstore.pages.dev/api/skills/cjharmath-react-state-flows/manifest

## Capabilities

- Maps multi-step React operations into explicit states and transitions.
- Defines preconditions, actions, postconditions, and error handling for each step.
- Shows async flow implementation patterns with validation and contextual logging.
- Models UI-facing flow state for loading, complete, and error screens.
- Guides integration tests for happy paths and failure cases.
- Explains when to consider XState for more complex state machines.

## Use Cases

- Implement Checkout Workflows: Plan validation, payment, confirmation, and recovery states before writing React flow logic.
- Debug Async Ordering Bugs: Trace missed awaits, invalid transitions, and weak postconditions in existing multi-step flows.
- Document Team Flow Decisions: Create shared flow diagrams, transition rules, and test expectations for complex product journeys.

## Prompt Templates

### Map A Simple Flow

```
Use react-state-flows to map my React flow into states, transitions, preconditions, postconditions, and error states.
```

### Refactor Hidden Steps

```
Review this multi-step React operation and suggest an explicit flow structure with validation after each step.
```

### Add UI Flow State

```
Design UI-facing flow states for loading, success, retry, and error handling in this React Native workflow.
```

### Audit Flow Test Coverage

```
Evaluate my integration test plan for this React flow and identify missing happy path and failure path coverage.
```

## Limitations

- It provides patterns and examples, not a complete state machine library.
- It does not generate production-ready payment or checkout integrations.
- It assumes React or React Native project knowledge.
- It does not replace security or compliance review for transactional flows.

## Best Practices

- Document each state before implementing flow logic.
- Validate postconditions after every async step.
- Test happy paths and failures at each step.

## Anti Patterns

- Do not hide ordering inside scattered callbacks.
- Do not update UI status without recording the active step.
- Do not rely only on unit tests for full flow behavior.

## Security Audit

- Audited at: 2026-07-06T05:14:42.796\+00:00
- Summary: All static findings are false positives from Markdown code fences and TypeScript template literals in SKILL.md. The skill is instructional React guidance and shows no executable scripts, network calls, prompt injection text, or shell command instructions.

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