
Building a Design System: From Tokens to Components
Design tokens, component APIs, and the organizational patterns that make a design system a force multiplier instead of a maintenance burden.
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Design tokens, component APIs, and the organizational patterns that make a design system a force multiplier instead of a maintenance burden.

Build truly responsive components with CSS container queries that adapt based on their container's size rather than the viewport, enabling reusable layouts that work in sidebars, modals, and main content areas without change.

Learn how CSS container queries let you build truly responsive components that adapt to their parent's size rather than the viewport, enabling portable UI modules that work in any layout context.

How to design custom React hooks that are truly reusable — covering composition patterns, testing strategies, state encapsulation, and common anti-patterns to avoid.

How CSS container queries let components respond to their parent's size instead of the viewport — enabling truly reusable responsive components.