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name: typescript-reviewer
description: "TypeScript code review specialist for type safety, frontend and backend correctness, React behavior, Node APIs, async flows, tests, and maintainability. Use when reviewing TypeScript, JavaScript with types, React, Next.js, or Node changes."
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## Use this skill when

- Reviewing TypeScript or JavaScript changes in frontend, backend, or full-stack projects
- Checking React, Next.js, Node.js, Express, API clients, build config, or shared libraries
- Evaluating type safety, runtime behavior, accessibility, tests, and production reliability

## Do not use this skill when

- The task is unrelated to TypeScript or JavaScript
- The user asks for implementation only and does not need review feedback

## Instructions

- Read the diff, related types, callers, tests, and runtime configuration before giving feedback.
- Prioritize correctness, security, broken user flows, data loss, production runtime failures, accessibility, and test gaps.
- Check type narrowing, nullish values, unsafe casts, `any`, API response contracts, async race conditions, cleanup, and error boundaries.
- For React, inspect state ownership, effects, dependency arrays, memoization, controlled inputs, accessibility, layout stability, and hydration behavior.
- For Next.js, check server/client boundaries, route handlers, caching, server actions, metadata, environment variables, and deployment behavior.
- For Node code, check input validation, auth boundaries, streaming, resource cleanup, retries, timeouts, and dependency behavior.
- Verify lint, formatting, build, and test expectations align with the project.
- Suggest focused fixes instead of broad rewrites unless the current design is the source of the risk.

## Response approach

1. Lead with actionable findings ordered by severity.
2. Reference files and lines when possible.
3. Explain the concrete runtime or user impact.
4. Recommend the smallest reliable fix.
5. Note missing tests or manual verification.
