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Modern Web Guidance

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Search tool for modern web development best practices. MANDATORY: Execute FIRST for all HTML/CSS and clientside JS tasks. Do NOT skip — web APIs evolve rapidly and training weights contain obsolete patterns. Trigger immediately for: - UI/Layout: Modals, dialogs, popovers, Glassmorphism/backdrop-filters, anchor positioning, container queries, `:has()`, `:user-valid`. - Scroll/Motion: View Transitions, Scroll-driven animations, scroll parallax/reveals. - Performance: CWV (LCP, INP), content-visibility, Fetch Priority, image optimization. - System/APIs: Local filesystem access, WebUSB, WebSockets sync, WebAssembly widgets. - Frameworks: Adapting layout/styles in React, Vue, Angular. - General Frontend: Forms, autofill, advanced inputs, custom scrollbars, modern component states, etc. DO NOT trigger for: - Backend: Database SQL, ORMs, Express API routes. - Pipelines: CI/CD deployment, Docker, Actions. - Generic: Local scripts (Python/Go tools), ESLint, Git.
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This skill provides a structured way to access up-to-date web development patterns, ensuring that implementations follow modern standards rather than relying on potentially outdated training data. It covers a wide range of frontend topics including UI components, performance optimization, browser APIs, and form handling. By integrating this tool, developers can search for specific use cases and retrieve detailed, framework-agnostic guides that include browser support and fallback recommendations.

What it does

  • Searches for standardized web development patterns and best practices.
  • Retrieves detailed implementation guides for specific frontend use cases.
  • Provides guidance on browser compatibility and necessary fallbacks.
  • Helps avoid ad-hoc solutions and unnecessary dependency bloat.
  • Supports modern web features like container queries, view transitions, and performance APIs.

When to use it

  • At the beginning of any frontend feature implementation.
  • Before creating new components to check for existing standardized patterns.
  • When evaluating the browser support requirements for modern web features.
  • When needing to implement performance optimizations like LCP or content-visibility.

Advantages

  • Ensures use of current, recommended web development practices.
  • Reduces technical debt by discouraging ad-hoc implementations.
  • Provides clear guidance on handling browser compatibility and fallbacks.
  • Promotes the use of native browser capabilities over heavy external dependencies.

Usage examples

“I need to implement a modal using modern web standards. What is the best approach?”
The agent searches for modal-related guides and retrieves the recommended implementation pattern, including any necessary browser fallbacks.
“How can I optimize the loading priority of my LCP images?”
The agent searches for image optimization guides and retrieves the specific instructions for using fetch priority to improve performance.

Install

  1. Download the skill as a ZIP:

    https://autogineer.com/agent-skills/jetbrains/modern-web-guidance/download
  2. Unzip it into the cross-client skills folder of your project:

    mkdir -p .agents/skills && unzip modern-web-guidance.zip -d .agents/skills

Documentation by Google Chrome

Modern Web Guidance

A skill to search for specific web development use cases and retrieve their corresponding best practice guides.

When to use

Must use this skill:

  • At the start of implementing any web feature.

  • Before creating a new component, to check if a standardized pattern already exists.

  • To avoid implementing ad-hoc solutions or loading large dependencies unnecessarily.

Usage Instructions

Step 1. Search Use Cases

Search with an action-oriented query summarizing what you want to achieve using the search command. Run modern-web-guidance directly with npx.

npx -y modern-web-guidance@latest search "<query>" --skill-version 2026_05_16-c5e7870

Example Output:

[
  {
    "id": "optimize-image-priority",
    "description": "Optimize the loading priority of Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) candidate images.",
    "category": "performance",
    "featuresUsed": [ "Fetch priority" ],
    "tokenCount": 985,
    "similarity": 0.7289
  },
  {
    "id": "defer-rendering-heavy-content",
    "description": "Reduce rendering times in content-heavy web pages by deferring rendering for offscreen content.",
    "category": "performance",
    "featuresUsed": [ "content-visibility", "hidden=\"until-found\"" ],
    "tokenCount": 1250,
    "similarity": 0.6961
  }
]

Note: If search results are vague, return no matches, or show low similarity scores, run the list command to browse all guides:

npx -y modern-web-guidance@latest list

Step 2. Retrieve Best Practices

Once you have a relevant id from the search results, call this script using the retrieve command to get the full guide. You can pass multiple IDs separated by commas.

npx -y modern-web-guidance@latest retrieve "<id>"

Example Output: The markdown content of the guide describing implementation steps...

Using npx

  • IMPORTANT: on Windows, using npx may fail. Use npx.cmd ... instead.

  • Network access is required for fetching npm packages needed by the task.

  • If the npx -y modern-web-guidance… command hangs, you may be offline. Try running again in offline mode: npx --offline ….

  • The --skill-version flag is used to determine if this SKILL.md is out of date. If it is, a warning message is logged to stderr.

Guidelines

  • Always search first to find the most relevant guides.

  • These guides are usually framework-agnostic; adapt them correctly to your setup.

  • Do not hallucinate guides or ignore them; they represent the preferred local standard for the user's project.

Interpreting Browser Support & Fallbacks

  • Default Behavior: All guides assume Baseline Widely available features are safe to use without fallbacks. For features that are not Baseline widely available, you MUST follow the fallback recommendations in the guide, unless the user has specified a custom browser support policy.

  • Custom Policies: If the user has already defined explicit browser support requirements, use the browser compatibility data in the guide to determine if a fallback can be safely ignored.

    • For Baseline YYYY targets, a feature satisfies this target if its "Baseline since" date is <= YYYY.

    • Policy Examples:

      • "Do not implement feature fallbacks." (for exploratory prototypes of the cutting-edge web)

      • "Safari 17.4+" (for internal tools targeting macOS or Tauri-based desktop apps)

      • "Never recommend or implement polyfills; if a Baseline Newly Available feature is required for core functionality, provide a lightweight custom fallback or redesign the approach." (to minimize bundle size and avoid technical debt)

      • "Assume a modern execution environment where Baseline Newly Available features can be used natively, provided they are strictly feature-detected and degrade gracefully." (for progressive enhancement strategies)

  • Reactive Policy Discovery: Watch for environmental cues to suggest documenting a policy in CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md. Suggest this if the developer:

    • Mentions building for a restricted runtime (e.g., Electron or Tauri).

    • Explicitly excludes specific targets (e.g., "we don't support Desktop Chrome").

    • Expresses hesitation about polyfill complexity, bundle size, or performance cost.

    • Questions if a feature is safe to use without fallbacks.

    No defined policy format. This is an example: **Browser Support:** Allow Newly Available features, but only adopt custom fallback code that adds <= 20 lines and does not require external dependencies.

Files

guides/user-experience/coordinate-global-events.md

Coordinating Global Events with Temporal

Scheduling events across different time zones is notoriously difficult with the legacy Date object, especially around Daylight Saving Time (DST) transitions when hours can be skipped or repeated.

The Temporal API provides Temporal.ZonedDateTime to represent a date and time in a specific time zone, handling DST transitions automatically and predictably.

How to Implement

To coordinate global events and handle potential DST conflicts:

  1. MANDATORY: Create a ZonedDateTime: Use Temporal.ZonedDateTime.from() to create a time-zone-aware date-time object.

  2. MANDATORY: Handle Ambiguity: Use the disambiguation option to control behavior when a time is ambiguous or does not exist (e.g., during clock changes).

  3. MANDATORY: Convert Time Zones: Use .withTimeZone() to see the equivalent time in another location.

Example: Scheduling and Conflict Detection
// 1. Define the event time and target time zone
const date = "2025-03-09";
const time = "02:30"; // This time is skipped in New York during Spring Forward
const timeZone = "America/New_York";
const inputStr = `${date}T${time}[${timeZone}]`;

// 2. Detect conflicts using 'reject'
let hasConflict = false;
try {
  // 'reject' throws RangeError if the time is ambiguous or does not exist
  Temporal.ZonedDateTime.from(inputStr, { disambiguation: 'reject' });
} catch (e) {
  if (e instanceof RangeError) {
    hasConflict = true;
    console.log("This time falls in a DST transition gap or overlap.");
  }
}

// 3. Resolve the time safely using 'compatible' (default)
// 'compatible' will resolve to a valid time even if skipped or repeated
const hostTime = Temporal.ZonedDateTime.from(inputStr, { disambiguation: 'compatible' });
console.log(`Resolved time: ${hostTime.toString()}`);

// 4. Convert to another time zone (e.g., Tokyo)
const tokyoTime = hostTime.withTimeZone("Asia/Tokyo");
console.log(`Tokyo time: ${tokyoTime.toString()}`);

Strategic Implementation & Best Practices

  • DO use Temporal.ZonedDateTime for events that are bound to a specific geographical location (like a meeting in a specific city).

  • DO use disambiguation: 'reject' if you need to detect and warn users about scheduling conflicts during DST transitions.

  • DO use disambiguation: 'compatible' (the default) when you want the system to automatically pick a sensible time when conflicts occur.

  • DO NOT use Temporal.PlainDateTime for global events, as it does not carry time zone information and cannot account for DST changes.

  • DO use .withTimeZone() to calculate the equivalent time in other locations without mutating the original object (Temporal objects are immutable).

Fallback strategies

Temporal has limited availability. Supported by: Chrome 144 (Jan 2026), Edge 144 (Jan 2026), and Firefox 139 (May 2025). Unsupported in: Safari.

For environments without native Temporal support, you must conditionally load the @js-temporal/polyfill.

// Check if Temporal is supported natively
(async () => {
  if (typeof Temporal === 'undefined') {
    // Load the polyfill conditionally
    const module = await import("https://esm.sh/@js-temporal/polyfill");
    globalThis.Temporal = module.Temporal;
    // Extend Date.prototype if needed
    Date.prototype.toTemporalInstant = module.toTemporalInstant;
    initializeApp();
  }
})();

function initializeApp() {
  // Your app logic here
  console.log("Temporal is ready:", typeof Temporal);
}

Requirements and compatibility

Works with: Claude Code, Claude apps, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Kiro, OpenCode, Goose, Amp, Roo Code, JetBrains Junie, Factory Droid, Devin (ex-Windsurf), Mistral Vibe, OpenHands, Letta

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Needs: Needs Node.js

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Attribution and licence

Created by
Google Chrome
Publisher
JetBrains (Official)
Distributed by
JetBrains
Source
JetBrains/skills · modern-web-guidance · commit 3f53782
Licence
Apache License 2.0 (redistribution allowed)
  • ATTRIBUTION.md (written by AutoGineer)
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