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We built quality gates before expanding the component catalog because a successful build does not prove that a reusable component is complete, documented, accessible, or reliable across platforms. The gates separate two questions: whether every required surface exists, and whether those surfaces contain meaningful evidence for the component’s declared behavior.
Why add gates before growing the catalog?
A component count can make a design system look more mature without showing whether its public contract is dependable. A component may have an implementation but be missing from the package’s public exports. Its types may not reflect the props consumers can use. Tests may cover only the default state; stories may omit important variations; documentation may be stale; or a platform implementation may lag behind the declared support.
Each component can touch many surfaces: implementation, public types and exports, tests, Storybook, website and API documentation, examples, accessibility evidence, metadata, design tokens, and platform-specific validation. As the catalog grows, each surface creates another opportunity for drift. Building shared checks while the catalog is still bounded makes it easier to find gaps before they become a large, inconsistent backlog. It is similar to adding database constraints before invalid data accumulates.
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The goal is cheaper trust: automate repeated, deterministic checks so reviewers can spend their attention on component-specific decisions that need judgment. That is the rationale, not a measured claim about reduced defects or review time.
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What do the gates prove?
The checks distinguish completeness from quality evidence. Both matter, and neither can substitute for the other.
| Check | Question | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Completeness | Are all surfaces required by the declared contract present? | If metadata declares React Native support, is there a native implementation as well as the expected types, exports, tests, stories, and documentation? |
| Quality evidence | Do those surfaces credibly support the component’s stated behavior? | For a form component, is there evidence for controlled and uncontrolled use, disabled and required states, and invalid behavior—not merely a test file? |
Completeness: compare the contract with the repository
Start from canonical metadata that describes a component’s platforms and required surfaces. Derive the expected files or repository artifacts from that declaration, then compare them with what actually exists. This makes omissions deterministic to detect: a declared platform cannot silently lack its implementation, and required exports, tests, stories, docs, accessibility surfaces, or tokens can be checked systematically.
Quality evidence: verify more than file presence
Existence is not proof of useful coverage. A test can be present but exercise only a happy path. A Storybook entry can show only the default state. Documentation can exist but no longer match the API. Quality checks should therefore look for evidence of important declared behavior, not just the presence of a file with the right name.
Why isn’t a green build enough?
A successful build is important: it shows that the code can be transformed into valid output. It does not necessarily show that consumers can import the intended component from the package root, that public types accurately describe its props, or that its behavior is tested beyond the default case. Nor does it establish that stories expose representative states, documentation is current, or platform-specific accessibility semantics are correct.
For a reusable library, package exports and public type contracts are part of the product boundary. A component that compiles internally but is missing from the package-root exports is not available to consumers in the intended way. Likewise, a build cannot stand in for behavioral, documentation, or accessibility evidence.
How should Web and Native be validated?
Shared product responsibilities do not require identical source code or identical evidence. Each runtime needs validation in its own terms.
| Area | Web evidence | React Native evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | Appropriate semantic HTML, roles, and ARIA where needed | Appropriate properties such as accessibilityRole, accessibilityLabel, accessibilityState, and accessibilityHint |
| Interaction | Keyboard behavior and focus management in the web runtime | Platform-appropriate keyboard, focus, and gesture behavior |
| Overlays | Evidence for the web overlay mechanism, which may use a portal | Evidence for the native mechanism, such as Modal or another appropriate approach |
The useful question is whether each runtime fulfills the same user-facing responsibility with credible, platform-appropriate evidence—not whether its implementation resembles the other one.
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Keep checks small enough that a failure points to a useful answer. Buildability, public API access, repository completeness, evidence quality, documentation structure, and runtime behavior answer different questions. Combining them into one opaque “validate everything” script makes failures harder to diagnose and findings harder to reuse.
When a rule represents a stable engineering judgment, return structured findings rather than vague log text. A finding can identify the rule, dimension, severity, platform, status, message, and evidence. Those results can then be reused in CI, review summaries, issue routing, or historical reporting. As the Vellira article puts it: “Once a quality rule represents a stable engineering judgment, its result should be reusable.”
Independent reader supportYour contribution helps us test, update, and keep practical guides available for everyone.What should remain a human decision?
Automate repeated, deterministic invariants; do not mistake their presence for a complete quality judgment. A checker can verify that a props contract exists, but it cannot establish that every prop is well designed. It can detect accessibility semantics, but cannot prove that every real user experience is accessible. It can confirm story states, but cannot decide whether examples explain the component well.
Human review still needs to assess API design, clarity, usability, and whether the evidence is convincing for the component’s actual responsibilities. If several components fail in the same way, look for a reusable system-level cause—such as generator templates, metadata, test contracts, quality rules, documentation generation, or CI—rather than treating every instance as an isolated fix.
Why choose 20 components?
Twenty is a bounded target, not a magic threshold or a research finding. A catalog of that size can include enough variety to exercise primitives, form controls, compound APIs, navigation, overlays, two runtimes, controlled state, keyboard interactions, focus management, tokens, and icons, while remaining small enough for a full audit. The point is to establish and test the definition of done before scaling—not to claim that every library should stop at or grow to the same number.
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