--- title: "@langgenius/dify-ui" description: "Shared UI primitives, design tokens, Tailwind preset, and the `cn()` utility consumed by Dify's `web/` app." type: skill canonical_url: https://claudary.paisolsolutions.com/skills/readme-412 source: "Claudary" difficulty: intermediate author: "Claude Code Knowledge Pack" date: 2026-07-10T11:36:31.089Z license: CC-BY-4.0 attribution: "@langgenius/dify-ui — Claudary (https://claudary.paisolsolutions.com/skills/readme-412)" --- # @langgenius/dify-ui Shared UI primitives, design tokens, Tailwind preset, and the `cn()` utility consumed by Dify's `web/` app. ## Overview # @langgenius/dify-ui Shared UI primitives, design tokens, Tailwind preset, and the `cn()` utility consumed by Dify's `web/` app. The primitives are thin, opinionated wrappers around [Base UI] headless components, styled with `cva` + `cn` and Dify design tokens. > `private: true` — this package is consumed by `web/` via the pnpm workspace and is not published to npm. Treat the API as internal to Dify, but stable within the workspace. ## Installation Already wired as a workspace dependency in `web/package.json`. Nothing to install. For a new workspace consumer, add: ```jsonc { "dependencies": { "@langgenius/dify-ui": "workspace:*" } } ``` ## Imports Always import from a **subpath export** — there is no barrel: ```ts import { Button } from '@langgenius/dify-ui/button' import { cn } from '@langgenius/dify-ui/cn' import { Dialog, DialogContent, DialogTrigger } from '@langgenius/dify-ui/dialog' import { Popover, PopoverContent, PopoverTrigger } from '@langgenius/dify-ui/popover' import '@langgenius/dify-ui/styles.css' // once, in the app root ``` Importing from `@langgenius/dify-ui` (no subpath) is intentionally not supported — it keeps tree-shaking trivial and makes Storybook / test coverage attribution per-primitive. ## Primitives | Category | Subpath | Notes | | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------- | | Overlay | `./alert-dialog`, `./context-menu`, `./dialog`, `./dropdown-menu`, `./popover`, `./select`, `./toast`, `./tooltip` | Portalled. See [Overlay & portal contract] below. | | Form | `./number-field`, `./slider`, `./switch` | Controlled / uncontrolled per Base UI defaults. | | Layout | `./scroll-area` | Custom-styled scrollbar over the host viewport. | | Media | `./avatar`, `./button` | Button exposes `cva` variants. | Utilities: - `./cn` — `clsx` + `tailwind-merge` wrapper. Use this for conditional class composition. - `./tailwind-preset` — Tailwind v4 preset with Dify tokens. Apps extend it from their own `tailwind.config.ts`. - `./styles.css` — the one CSS entry that ships the design tokens, theme variables, and base reset. Import it once from the app root. ## Overlay & portal contract All overlay primitives (`dialog`, `alert-dialog`, `popover`, `dropdown-menu`, `context-menu`, `select`, `tooltip`, `toast`) render their content inside a [Base UI Portal] attached to `document.body`. This is the Base UI default — see the upstream [Portals][Base UI Portal] docs for the underlying behavior. Consumers **do not** need to wrap anything in a portal manually. ### Root isolation requirement The host app **must** establish an isolated stacking context at its root so the portalled overlay layer is not clipped or re-ordered by ancestor `transform` / `filter` / `contain` styles. In the Dify web app this is done in `web/app/layout.tsx`: ```tsx

{children}

``` Equivalent: any root element with `isolation: isolate` in CSS. Without it, overlays can be visually clipped on Safari when a descendant creates a new stacking context. ### z-index layering Every overlay primitive uses a single, shared z-index. Do **not** override it at call sites. | Layer | z-index | Where | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Overlays (Dialog, AlertDialog, Popover, DropdownMenu, ContextMenu, Select, Tooltip) | `z-1002` | Positioner / Backdrop | | Toast viewport | `z-1003` | One layer above overlays so notifications are never hidden under a dialog. | Rationale: during Dify's migration from legacy `portal-to-follow-elem` / `base/modal` / `base/dialog` overlays to this package, new and old overlays coexist in the DOM. `z-1002` sits above any common legacy layer, eliminating per-call-site z-index hacks. Among themselves, new primitives share the same z-index and **rely on DOM order** for stacking — the portal mounted later wins. See `[web/docs/overlay-migration.md](../../web/docs/overlay-migration.md)` for the Dify-web migration history and the remaining legacy allowlist. Once the legacy overlays are gone, the values in this table can drop back to `z-50` / `z-51`. ### Rules - Never add `z-1003` / `z-9999` / etc. overrides on primitives from this package. If something is getting clipped, the **parent** overlay (typically a legacy one) is the problem and should be migrated. - Never portal an overlay manually on top of our primitives — use `DialogTrigger`, `PopoverTrigger`, etc. Base UI handles focus management, scroll-locking, and dismissal. - When a primitive needs additional presentation chrome (e.g. a custom backdrop), add it **inside** the exported component, not at call sites. ## Development - `pnpm -C packages/dify-ui test` — Vitest unit tests for primitives. - `pnpm -C packages/dify-ui storybook` — Storybook on the default port. Each primitive has `index.stories.tsx`. - `pnpm -C packages/dify-ui type-check` — `tsgo --noEmit` for this package only. ### Disabling Animations In Tests Base UI can wait for `element.getAnimations()` to finish before it unmounts overlays, panels, and transition-driven components. Browser-based test runners can make that timing unstable, especially when tests assert final DOM state rather than animation behavior. Set the Base UI test flag in a Vitest setup file to skip those waits: ```ts ( globalThis as typeof globalThis & { BASE_UI_ANIMATIONS_DISABLED: boolean } ).BASE_UI_ANIMATIONS_DISABLED = true ``` `packages/dify-ui/vitest.setup.ts` already applies this for primitive tests. See `[AGENTS.md](./AGENTS.md)` for: - Component authoring rules (one-component-per-folder, `cva` + `cn`, relative imports inside the package, subpath imports from consumers). - Figma `--radius/`* token → Tailwind `rounded-*` class mapping. ## Not part of this package - Application state (`jotai`, `zustand`), data fetching (`ky`, `@tanstack/react-query`, `@orpc/*`), i18n (`next-i18next` / `react-i18next`), and routing (`next`) all live in `web/`. This package has zero dependencies on them and must stay that way so it can eventually be consumed by other apps or extracted. - Business components (chat, workflow, dataset views, etc.). Those belong in `web/app/components/...`. [Base UI Portal]: https://base-ui.com/react/overview/quick-start#portals [Base UI]: https://base-ui.com/react [Overlay & portal contract]: #overlay--portal-contract --- Source: [Claudary](https://claudary.paisolsolutions.com/skills/readme-412) · https://claudary.paisolsolutions.com