Docyrus Dashboard Design

Build dashboards, analytics, and reporting UIs for Docyrus-backed React apps with one fixed component stack. This skill is intentionally opinionated: when a dashboard surface is in scope, these three choices are mandatory, not suggestions.

This overrides the default guidance in docyrus-app-dev-react ("Prefer Recharts / shadcn chart", generic Card). On dashboard/analytics/reporting work, do not reach for Recharts, the shadcn chart primitive, raw <Card>, or hand-rolled stat tiles. Use the stack above.

The One Rule

Do not invent dashboard primitives. Charts come from Bklit, cards come from AwesomeCard, stat tiles come from AwesomeStats. If a need seems unmet, read the component's docs first — it is almost always already supported via props.

• ❌ import { BarChart } from 'recharts' → ✅ npx shadcn@latest add @bklit/bar-chart then import { BarChart } from '@bklitui/ui/charts'
• ❌ import { ChartContainer } from '@/components/ui/chart' (shadcn) → ✅ Bklit chart composition
• ❌ <Card><CardHeader>…</Card> for a dashboard panel → ✅ <AwesomeCard><AwesomeCardHeader>…</AwesomeCard>
• ❌ hand-built <div> grids of "value + label + arrow" KPI tiles → ✅ <AwesomeStats items={…} layout={…} />

Decision Guide — which one?

Rule of thumb: 3+ comparable metrics → AwesomeStats. One metric or mixed content → AwesomeCard. Anything plotted → Bklit.

Workflow

1. Detect the dashboard surface. Dashboard / analytics / overview / KPI / reporting page → this skill applies.
2. Check what's installed, then install the missing pieces:

``bash npx shadcn@latest info --json # framework, aliases, registries pnpm dlx @docyrus/cli add @docyrus/ui-awesome-card # if not present pnpm dlx @docyrus/cli add @docyrus/ui-awesome-stats # if not present npx shadcn@latest add @bklit/<slug> # per chart you use ` Confirm the @bklit registry is configured in components.json` before adding charts (see the bklit-ui skill).

1. Lay out the page top-down: KPI strip (AwesomeStats) → chart panels (AwesomeCard wrapping Bklit charts) → tables/detail.
2. Feed real data via Docyrus collections/queries (use the docyrus-app-dev-react skill for .list() + calculations/pivot/formulas). Shape it into AwesomeStats items and Bklit data arrays.
3. Theme & compose correctly — Bklit composition + chartCssVars; AwesomeStats format for tenant-aware number/currency formatting.
4. Verify typecheck + a quick visual check.

Charts — Bklit UI (mandatory for all data-viz)

Charts are installed as source from the @bklit shadcn registry and composed (root → Grid → series → axes → ChartTooltip).

import { LineChart, Line, Grid, XAxis, ChartTooltip, chartCssVars } from '@bklitui/ui/charts';

<LineChart data={data} xDataKey="date">
  <Grid horizontal />
  <Line dataKey="users" stroke={chartCssVars.linePrimary} />
  <XAxis />
  <ChartTooltip />
</LineChart>

For anything beyond a trivial chart — composition rules, theming tokens, animation, tooltips, the full chart catalog (area, bar, line, live-line, composed, scatter, candlestick, pie, ring, radar, gauge, funnel, sankey, choropleth), and install/registry setup — defer to the dedicated bklit-ui skill. Read its SKILL.md and rules/*.md rather than guessing chart props. Each chart also has docs at https://ui.bklit.com/docs/components/<slug>.

Pick the chart by the story the data tells:

Gotchas confirmed from the live Bklit docs: import everything from @bklitui/ui/charts; bar charts use BarXAxis (line/area use XAxis); root props include data, xDataKey, margin, animationDuration, status. Always confirm a chart's exact sub-components on its doc page before composing.

Mini-charts inside stat cards are different: AwesomeStats has its own built-in miniChart (sparkline/bar/area) — see below. Use Bklit for the page's primary, full-size charts.

Cards — AwesomeCard (mandatory for all dashboard panels)

A card with a hatched-stripe header and an inset content area. Wrap every dashboard panel in it. Details: references/awesome-card.md. Import: @docyrus/ui/components/awesome-card (package) or @/components/docyrus/awesome-card (CLI-installed app source) — examples below use the app path.

import {
  AwesomeCard, AwesomeCardHeader, AwesomeCardTitle, AwesomeCardIcon,
  AwesomeCardBody, AwesomeCardValue, AwesomeCardTrend,
} from '@/components/docyrus/awesome-card';

// Headline metric panel
<AwesomeCard patternStyle="stripes">
  <AwesomeCardHeader>
    <AwesomeCardTitle>Total Revenue</AwesomeCardTitle>
    <AwesomeCardIcon><Wallet className="size-4" /></AwesomeCardIcon>
  </AwesomeCardHeader>
  <AwesomeCardBody>
    <AwesomeCardValue>{formatCurrency(total, 'USD')}</AwesomeCardValue>
    <AwesomeCardTrend positive>+12.4% vs last month</AwesomeCardTrend>
  </AwesomeCardBody>
</AwesomeCard>

// Chart panel — AwesomeCard wraps a Bklit chart
<AwesomeCard patternStyle="dots">
  <AwesomeCardHeader>
    <AwesomeCardTitle>Revenue Trend</AwesomeCardTitle>
  </AwesomeCardHeader>
  <AwesomeCardBody>
    <AreaChart data={monthly} xDataKey="month"> … </AreaChart>
  </AwesomeCardBody>
</AwesomeCard>

Key props: patternStyle ('stripes' | 'dots' | …), collapsible, expandable (expandTrigger, expandDirection, expandedWidth/Height). Full prop list and slot reference in references/awesome-card.md.

Stat cards — AwesomeStats (mandatory for all KPI/metric tiles)

Data-driven metric cards: pass an items array and a layout. Renders grid / flex (wrap or scroll) / tabs, with comparison deltas, built-in mini-charts, Intl.NumberFormat value formatting, drag-and-drop reordering, and per-card menus. Details: references/awesome-stats.md.

import { AwesomeStats } from '@/components/docyrus/awesome-stats';
import type { AwesomeStatItem } from '@/components/docyrus/awesome-stats';

const items: AwesomeStatItem[] = [
  {
    id: 'revenue',
    eyebrow: 'USD',
    title: 'Gross Total',
    subtitle: '128 reports',
    icon: 'fal sack-dollar',            // DocyrusIcon string or ReactNode
    color: 'emerald',
    value: 184250,
    format: { style: 'currency', currency: 'USD', notation: 'compact', maximumFractionDigits: 1 },
    comparison: { previousValue: 164000, period: 'last-month', positiveDirection: 'up' },
    miniChart: { type: 'area', data: [12, 18, 14, 22, 19, 26], position: 'right' },
  },
  // …more metrics
];

<AwesomeStats
  items={items}
  layout={{ type: 'flex', behavior: 'scroll', cardWidth: 280, gap: '0.75rem' }}
  cardVariant="awesome"   // 'awesome' = AwesomeCard styling, 'default' = plain card
/>

Layouts: { type: 'grid', columns, maxCardWidth?, gap? } · { type: 'flex', behavior: 'wrap' | 'scroll', cardWidth, gap? } · { type: 'tabs', defaultTabId? }. Full item/layout/comparison/format/menu reference in references/awesome-stats.md.

Critical Rules

1. Charts = Bklit, always. No Recharts, no shadcn chart, no hand-rolled SVG on dashboards.
2. Dashboard panels = AwesomeCard, always. No raw <Card> for dashboard sections.
3. KPI/metric tiles = AwesomeStats, always. Don't hand-build value+trend grids.
4. Install, don't reimplement. Add from the registries; compose with props.
5. Read the docs before guessing props. Bklit → bklit-ui skill + ui.bklit.com/docs. AwesomeCard/AwesomeStats → the reference files here + https://alpha-ui.docy.app/docs/web/components/<name>/llms.txt.
6. Tenant-aware formatting. Use AwesomeStats format (Intl) and @docyrus/app-utils numberUtils/dateUtils — never hardcode locale, currency, or separators when tenant preferences should drive them. (See docyrus-app-dev-react.)
7. Real data via Docyrus collections. Compute metrics with .list() + calculations / pivot / formulas; shape into stat items and chart data. (See docyrus-app-dev-react.)
8. Icons follow the project order: hugeicons → fontawesome light → lucide.

Relationship to other skills

• bklit-ui — the authoritative chart skill. Defer to it for all chart composition, theming, animation, tooltips, and the registry setup. This skill only mandates that you use Bklit and points you there.
• docyrus-app-dev-react — app architecture, auth, collections, queries, formatting. Use it for the data layer that feeds these dashboards. This skill overrides only its chart/card/stat component choices for dashboard surfaces.
• docyrus-data-grid-page-design — for the table/list parts of a screen (a dashboard often pairs a KPI strip + charts on top with a grid below).

References

• references/awesome-card.md — full AwesomeCard prop & slot reference, patterns, collapsible/expandable usage.
• references/awesome-stats.md — full AwesomeStats item/layout/comparison/format/miniChart/menu reference and recipes.
• references/dashboard-recipes.md — end-to-end page layouts wiring all three together with Docyrus data.
• the bklit-ui skill — charts (composition, theming, animation, catalog).