Cursor Rules for React: The Complete Guide to AI-Assisted React Development

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Cursor Rules for React: The Complete Guide to AI-Assisted React Development React is the framework where "it renders" hides the longest lie. The component mounts, the screen looks fine, and nothing in the build pipeline tells you the parent re-renders the whole tree on every keystroke, that a useEffect is fetching twice in de and you "fixed" it by removing a dependency, or that the context you reached for so a leaf could read a flag is re-rendering forty siblings every time a token refreshes. The app works.