--- title: Vercel Launches React Best Practices Skill with 40+... description: Vercel has open-sourced 'react-best-practices', a repository containing 40+ performance optimization rules for React and Next.js applications. Organized into... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/tdp9dshd3 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Vercel Launches React Best Practices Skill with 40+ Performance Optimization Rules for AI Code Assistants | daily.dev og:description: Vercel has open-sourced 'react-best-practices', a repository containing 40+ performance optimization rules for React and Next.js applications. Organized into... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/tdp9dshd3 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/tdp9dsHd3.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Vercel Launches React Best Practices Skill with 40+ Performance Optimization Rules for AI Code Assistants **[Coders Desk](https://daily.dev/sources/codersdesk)** · [@ritiks236](https://daily.dev/ritiks236) · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Vercel has open-sourced 'react-best-practices', a repository containing 40+ performance optimization rules for React and Next.js applications. Organized into eight categories, the rules cover async waterfall elimination, bundle size reduction, re-render optimization, and JavaScript micro-optimizations, each with before-and-after code examples. A key feature is an AGENTS.md file that packages all rules into a format queryable by AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and OpenCode via a single install command. The repo has gained over 21k GitHub stars and 150k weekly installs, though some community members raise concerns about supply chain security and whether codified rules effectively address AI agent failure modes. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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