Generate a Reusable React Component

Learn how to generate reusable, production-ready React components using AI tools like Cursor, Windsurf, Claude, and v0.dev. Includes prompt, example, best practices, and FAQs.

🧠 What This Prompt Does

This AI prompt helps developers create reusable, production-ready React components quickly while maintaining quality, accessibility, and code readability.
It’s particularly useful when prototyping new UIs or refactoring existing codebases using TailwindCSS and TypeScript.

You’ll get cleanly structured components compatible with frameworks like Next.js and can run this directly inside Cursor, Windsurf, Claude, or v0.dev.

💬 The Prompt

You are a senior React developer.
Given the following requirements, generate a reusable and production-ready React component with TypeScript and TailwindCSS.

Requirements:

- {{component_purpose}}
- Use functional components with hooks.
- Include prop types or interfaces.
- Apply Tailwind classes for layout and styling.
- Ensure accessibility (ARIA) and mobile responsiveness.
- Include a short explanation of the design choices.

⚙️ Example Input

{
  "component_purpose": "Responsive Navbar with a dropdown for user profile"
}

🚀 Example Output (AI Generated)

import React from 'react';

interface NavbarProps {
  userName?: string;
}

const Navbar: React.FC<NavbarProps> = ({ userName }) => {
  return (
    <nav className='flex items-center justify-between bg-gray-900 text-white px-6 py-3'>
      <h1 className='text-xl font-semibold'>MyApp</h1>
      <div className='relative group'>
        <button className='flex items-center space-x-2 focus:outline-none'>
          <span>{userName || 'Guest'}</span>
          <svg
            className='w-4 h-4 transform group-hover:rotate-180 transition-transform'
            xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'
            fill='none'
            viewBox='0 0 24 24'
            stroke='currentColor'>
            <path
              strokeLinecap='round'
              strokeLinejoin='round'
              strokeWidth={2}
              d='M19 9l-7 7-7-7'
            />
          </svg>
        </button>
        <div className='absolute right-0 hidden group-hover:block bg-gray-800 mt-2 w-40 rounded-md shadow-lg'>
          <a href='#' className='block px-4 py-2 text-sm hover:bg-gray-700'>
            Profile
          </a>
          <a href='#' className='block px-4 py-2 text-sm hover:bg-gray-700'>
            Settings
          </a>
          <a href='#' className='block px-4 py-2 text-sm hover:bg-gray-700'>
            Logout
          </a>
        </div>
      </div>
    </nav>
  );
};

export default Navbar;

📘 When to Use This Prompt

Use this when you want to:

  • Bootstrap a new React component rapidly.
  • Maintain consistent styling with TailwindCSS.
  • Refactor legacy components into reusable ones.
  • Prototype ideas using AI IDEs like Cursor or Claude.

It’s also excellent for generating UI code to later refactor with your team’s internal design system.

💡 Best Practices

  • Include your design system constraints (colors, fonts, spacing) inside the Requirements: section.
  • Always test generated components in isolation (Storybook or local sandbox).
  • For accessibility, verify output using tools like axe-core or Lighthouse.
  • Ask the AI to generate PropTypes for JS projects if you’re not using TypeScript.

🏁 Summary

This prompt is your go-to template for producing clean, reusable React components with TypeScript, Tailwind, and accessibility standards baked in.
By using this structured prompt, developers can save hours in component scaffolding while maintaining readability, modularity, and UX quality.

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