component-architecture

A headless component architecture separates logic from styling, allowing teams to share behavior while applying custom themes. This split prevents visual coupling and ensures components remain reusable across different product designs without forcing style overrides.

Use compound components for shared state when you need flexible composition and implicit context passing. Configuration is restrictive for complex assemblies, whereas compound structures allow child parts to access shared state without prop drilling or rigid configuration objects.

Polymorphism patterns like `as` and `asChild` allow components to render as different elements or pass props through children. This prevents DOM nesting issues and ensures composability when building primitive components that need to adapt to various parent contexts.

Enforce correct layering by ensuring dependencies point strictly downward from product-specific assemblies to composites to primitives. This boundary isolation prevents circular dependencies and maintains clean reuse contracts across different abstraction levels in your library.