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The Composition Pattern That Actually Survives Contact With a Real Product
5/4/2026
Most component APIs are designed for the demo, not the product. They look clean in Storybook, hold together in the docs, and then quietly fall apart the moment a second product surface needs the same component to behave slightly differently. The pattern that survives this is comp…
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