Managing Skill Dependencies

Skills rarely exist in complete isolation. A skill about deploying a Next.js app implicitly depends on knowledge of Node.js, Docker, and cloud platforms. Managing these dependencies — making them explicit, minimizing them where possible, and handling them gracefully — determines whether a skill pack feels cohesive or frustrating. This skill covers identifying, documenting, and managing inter-skill dependencies.

## Key Points

- JavaScript fundamentals (variables, functions, async/await)
- React component basics (JSX, props, rendering)
- "React Fundamentals" — for component lifecycle understanding
- "TypeScript Basics" — if using TypeScript (optional)
- Node.js 20+ installed
- npm or yarn package manager
- A React project initialized (Create React App or Vite)
- Code editor with React/JSX support
- Browser with React DevTools extension
- `useState(initialValue)` — returns [state, setState]
- `useEffect(callback, deps)` — runs side effects
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