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Modern Web Guidance

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From the author

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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AutoGineer summary

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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web development patterns, ensuring that implementations follow modern standards rather than relying on potentially outdated training data.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://mp-staging.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/calculate-event-differentials.md

Calculating Event Differentials with Temporal

Calculating the time elapsed between events (such as trial expirations, subscription durations, or prorated costs) has historically been difficult with the legacy Date object due to complexities with time zones, daylight saving time (DST), and inconsistent parsing.

The Temporal API provides a modern, robust solution for date and time arithmetic. Specifically, Temporal.ZonedDateTime and Temporal.Duration enable exact, DST-safe calculations of time differences.

How to Implement

To calculate differentials between two events:

  1. Obtain ZonedDateTime objects: Convert your inputs (dates and times) into Temporal.ZonedDateTime objects. This ensures calculations are time-zone aware.

  2. Calculate active time with .since(): Use currentZonedDateTime.since(startZonedDateTime) to find the time elapsed since a start event.

  3. Calculate remaining time with .until(): Use currentZonedDateTime.until(endZonedDateTime) to find the time remaining until a future event.

  4. Control precision with options: Use largestUnit, smallestUnit, and roundingMode to control how the resulting duration is balanced and rounded.

Example: Trial Expiration Calculation
// 1. Get current time point in the system time zone
const now = Temporal.Now.zonedDateTimeISO();
const tz = now.timeZoneId;

// 2. Parse inputs (assuming ISO strings from form inputs)
const startDateStr = "2025-01-01";
const startTimeStr = "12:00:00";
const endDateStr = "2025-01-31";
const endTimeStr = "12:00:00";

const startDate = Temporal.PlainDate.from(startDateStr);
const startTime = Temporal.PlainTime.from(startTimeStr);
const start = startDate.toPlainDateTime(startTime).toZonedDateTime(tz);

const endDate = Temporal.PlainDate.from(endDateStr);
const endTime = Temporal.PlainTime.from(endTimeStr);
const end = endDate.toPlainDateTime(endTime).toZonedDateTime(tz);

// 3. Calculate difference using .since() and .until()
// By default, units larger than hours might not wrap automatically.
// Use largestUnit to ensure differences are expressed in larger units if applicable.
const timeActive = now.since(start, { largestUnit: 'year' });
const timeRemaining = now.until(end, { largestUnit: 'year' });

console.log(`Active: ${timeActive.days} days, ${timeActive.hours} hours`);
console.log(`Remaining: ${timeRemaining.days} days, ${timeRemaining.hours} hours`);

// 4. Compare dates
const isExpired = Temporal.ZonedDateTime.compare(now, end) > 0;
if (isExpired) {
  console.log("Subscription is expired.");
}

Strategic Implementation & Best Practices

  • DO use Temporal.ZonedDateTime for calculations involving real-world events that occur in specific time zones (like subscription renewals or event scheduling).

  • DO use largestUnit to specify the largest unit you want in the result (e.g., 'year' or 'month'). If you omit it, it defaults to 'auto' which might not always sum up to years/months as expected for human-readable durations.

  • DO use .since() when calculating time elapsed since a past event (e.g., now.since(start)), and .until() for time remaining until a future event (e.g., now.until(end)).

  • DO NOT modify instances directly; Temporal objects are immutable. Operations like add(), subtract(), or with() return a new instance.

  • DO use Temporal.ZonedDateTime.compare to check if one time point is after another. It returns 1 if the first is after the second, -1 if before, and 0 if equal.

Fallback Strategy

Fallbacks & browser support for Temporal

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

For browsers that do not yet support the native Temporal API, use feature detection and a polyfill. The standard reference polyfill is @js-temporal/polyfill.

Note that the polyfill does not automatically assign the Temporal object to the global scope to avoid conflicts. You must manually assign it if your code relies on the global Temporal object.

// 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();
  }
})();

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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