Prompting Best Practices
Prompting Strategies for Frontend Developers
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PlayerZero AI Chat: Frontend Developer Guide
As a frontend developer, PlayerZero AI Chat transforms how you interact with codebases by providing intelligent, context‑aware assistance that understands both your code structure and user‑experience challenges.- Semantic Code Understanding: Find React components, styling patterns, and UI logic based on natural‑language descriptions rather than exact keyword matches.
- Cross‑Repository Intelligence: Navigate complex frontend architectures spanning multiple repositories, packages, and micro‑services.
- Component Discovery: Locate reusable UI components, design‑system elements, and styling patterns across your entire codebase.
- Integration Insights: Understand how frontend components interact with APIs, state management, and backend services.
Prompting Best Practices and Examples
Effective Prompting Strategies
Use Natural‑Language Descriptions
Use Natural‑Language Descriptions
- GOOD: “Find the component that handles user authentication and shows loading states.”
- BETTER: “Show me how the login form manages loading states and error messages during authentication.”
Provide Context About Your Goal
Provide Context About Your Goal
- GOOD: “Find the responsive navigation component.”
- BETTER: “I need to add a mobile‑menu toggle to the main navigation. Show me the current responsive navigation implementation and recent changes.”
Combine Code Structure with User Experience
Combine Code Structure with User Experience
- GOOD: “Find components that handle form validation.”
- BETTER: “Show me how we handle form‑validation errors in the user‑registration flow, including error‑messaging and accessibility features.”
Ask for Specific Implementation Details
Ask for Specific Implementation Details
- GOOD: “How does the dashboard component work?”
- BETTER: “Walk me through the dashboard component’s state management, API calls, and how it handles loading and error states.”
Unsatisfactory Prompting Examples
Overly Generic Requests
Overly Generic Requests
- POOR: “Show me all components.”
- WHY: Too broad, no clear objective.
- BETTER: “Show me all form components that handle user‑input validation.”
Keyword‑Only Searches
Keyword‑Only Searches
- POOR: “button click handler”
- WHY: Misses the semantic‑understanding capabilities.
- BETTER: “Show me how we handle button interactions and state changes in the product‑selection flow.”
Single‑Tool Thinking
Single‑Tool Thinking
- POOR: “Search for ‘useState’ in the codebase.”
- WHY: Doesn’t leverage the AI’s understanding of context and relationships.
- BETTER: “Show me how we manage component state in the shopping cart, including local state and any global state management.”
Vague Problem Descriptions
Vague Problem Descriptions
- BAD: “Something is broken.”
- WHY: Not enough context for the AI to help effectively.
- BETTER: “Users report that the checkout button doesn’t respond on mobile devices. Show me that component and recent changes to the checkout flow.”
Frontend Use Cases
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Component Discovery & Architecture
Component Library Exploration
Component Library Exploration
- “Show me all components that use the primary‑button design‑system pattern.”
- “Find all form components and show me how they handle validation and error states.”
- “Locate all modal components and show me their different variations and usage patterns.”
Design System Implementation
Design System Implementation
- “Show me how we implement loading states across different UI components.”
- “Find all components that use the deprecated modal component that needs to be updated.”
- “Show me all color and spacing tokens used in our component library.”
Component Relationship Mapping
Component Relationship Mapping
- “Show me how the product‑card component is used across different pages and what props it accepts.”
- “Find all components that depend on the user‑authentication context.”
- “Map out the component hierarchy for the checkout flow.”
Architecture Pattern Analysis
Architecture Pattern Analysis
- “Show me how we organize components between shared, feature‑specific, and page‑level directories.”
- “Find all higher‑order components and show me what functionality they provide.”
- “Analyze how we structure component exports and imports across the application.”
UI/UX Implementation & Optimization
User Interface Patterns
User Interface Patterns
- “Show me how we implement responsive breakpoints in our CSS‑in‑JS components.”
- “Find all instances of custom styling instead of design‑system tokens.”
- “Show me how we handle dark‑mode theming across different components.”
User Experience Flows
User Experience Flows
- “Trace the complete user‑registration experience from form display through validation to success confirmation.”
- “Show me how we handle empty states and loading indicators in the product listing.”
- “Find all user‑onboarding flows and show me their implementation patterns.”
Accessibility Implementation
Accessibility Implementation
- “Show me how we implement keyboard navigation in our dropdown components.”
- “Find all form components and analyze their accessibility features like ARIA labels and screen‑reader support.”
- “Show me how we handle focus management in modal dialogs.”
Mobile and Responsive Design
Mobile and Responsive Design
- “Show me how the navigation component adapts to mobile devices and what interaction patterns we use.”
- “Find all components that use media queries and show me our responsive‑design patterns.”
- “Analyze how we handle touch interactions and gesture support in mobile interfaces.”
State Management & Data Flow
Local State Management
Local State Management
- “Show me how we manage component state in the shopping cart, including local and global state.”
- “Find all components that use complex state logic and show me their patterns.”
- “Trace how form state is managed in the user‑profile update flow.”
Global State Analysis
Global State Analysis
- “Show me how user‑authentication state is managed and shared across the application.”
- “Find all Redux/Zustand stores and show me how they’re organized.”
- “Trace how product data flows from the API through global state to components.”
Data Flow Patterns
Data Flow Patterns
- “Show me how data flows from the product API to the UI.”
- “Find all context providers and show me what data they manage.”
- “Trace how user actions trigger state updates and component re‑renders.”
State Synchronization
State Synchronization
- “Show me how we keep local component state in sync with server data.”
- “Find all optimistic‑update patterns and show me their rollback strategies.”
- “Analyze how we manage state persistence across browser sessions.”
Integration & API Management
API Integration Patterns
API Integration Patterns
- “Show me how the product‑listing component fetches data and handles pagination.”
- “Find all API calls related to user management and show me their error‑handling patterns.”
- “Trace how we handle authentication tokens in API requests.”
Error Handling and Recovery
Error Handling and Recovery
- “Show me how we handle API errors in the user‑profile section and our error‑boundary implementation.”
- “Find all places where we display error messages and analyze consistency.”
- “Show me how we implement retry logic for failed API calls.”
Loading and Async States
Loading and Async States
- “Show me how we handle loading states during API calls and the indicators we show.”
- “Find all components that manage async operations and show me their patterns.”
- “Trace how we handle race conditions in API calls and prevent stale data display.”
Data Caching and Optimization
Data Caching and Optimization
- “Show me how we cache API responses and our freshness strategies.”
- “Find all data‑prefetching implementations and show performance impact.”
- “Analyze how we handle data invalidation and cache updates.”
Performance & Optimization
Bundle Analysis and Code Splitting
Bundle Analysis and Code Splitting
- “Show me how we implement code‑splitting and lazy loading for routes.”
- “Find all large dependencies and show how they’re loaded.”
- “Analyze our bundle structure and identify optimization opportunities.”
Rendering Performance
Rendering Performance
- “Show me how we prevent unnecessary re‑renders in the product‑listing component.”
- “Find all components with expensive calculations and show memoization patterns.”
- “Analyze how we handle large lists and implement virtualization.”
Asset Optimization
Asset Optimization
- “Show me how we handle image loading and optimization.”
- “Find all CSS/styling approaches and analyze performance impact.”
- “Show me how we implement font loading and prevent layout shifts.”
User‑Experience Performance
User‑Experience Performance
- “Analyze the critical‑rendering path for our main dashboard.”
- “Show me how we implement progressive loading and skeleton screens.”
- “Find all animations and analyze their performance characteristics.”
Debugging & Issue Resolution
User‑Reported Issues
User‑Reported Issues
- “The checkout button doesn’t respond on mobile. Show me the button component and recent changes.”
- “Product images aren’t loading. Show me image‑handling components and recent changes.”
- “Search functionality is slow. Show me the search implementation and performance bottlenecks.”
Console‑Error Investigation
Console‑Error Investigation
- “Show me components causing ‘Cannot read property of undefined’ errors.”
- “Find all nested‑property accesses and show safety checks.”
- “Analyze error boundaries and show how they handle component failures.”
Cross‑Browser Compatibility
Cross‑Browser Compatibility
- “Show me all browser‑specific code and polyfills.”
- “Find components using modern JS features and their browser support.”
- “Analyze CSS that might cause cross‑browser issues.”
Performance Debugging
Performance Debugging
- “Show me components that might be causing memory leaks and their cleanup patterns.”
- “Find all event listeners and show how they’re removed.”
- “Analyze components that might cause UI performance bottlenecks.”
Testing & Quality Assurance
Component Testing Strategy
Component Testing Strategy
- “Show me how we test the user‑registration form, including validation and error scenarios.”
- “Find all components needing integration tests and show dependencies.”
- “Analyze testing patterns and identify components lacking coverage.”
User Interaction Testing
User Interaction Testing
- “Show me how we test interactions in the shopping‑cart component.”
- “Find all form components and show validation‑testing strategies.”
- “Analyze how we test responsive behavior and mobile interactions.”
Accessibility Testing
Accessibility Testing
- “Show me how we test keyboard navigation and screen‑reader compatibility.”
- “Find all components needing accessibility tests and show ARIA implementations.”
- “Analyze focus management and show testing methods.”
Visual Regression Testing
Visual Regression Testing
- “Show me components benefiting from visual‑regression testing.”
- “Find styling patterns at risk with CSS changes and show how to test them.”
- “Analyze design‑system components and show methods to prevent visual regressions.”
Maintenance & Technical Debt
Legacy Code Migration
Legacy Code Migration
- “Show me all components using the old styling system that must migrate to new design tokens.”
- “Find all class components that should convert to functional components with hooks.”
- “Analyze deprecated dependencies and show their usage patterns for migration planning.”
Code Quality Improvement
Code Quality Improvement
- “Show me components with high complexity that could benefit from refactoring.”
- “Find all duplicated code patterns and show opportunities for reusable components.”
- “Analyze prop‑drilling patterns and show where we might need context or state management.”
Dependency Management
Dependency Management
- “Show me all external libraries and analyze their impact on bundle size.”
- “Find components using outdated patterns and show modernization strategies.”
- “Analyze our dependency tree and identify optimization opportunities.”
Documentation & Knowledge Transfer
Documentation & Knowledge Transfer
- “Show me components lacking documentation and help me create usage examples.”
- “Find all custom hooks and show their implementation and usage.”
- “Analyze our component‑API design and show how to improve developer experience.”