Coralite Guide Overview

Welcome to our guides. We've organized them to help you learn Coralite from the ground up.

• Getting Started

  Learn how to install Coralite, set up a project, author your first component and page, and run core scripts.

• Authoring Pattern

  Master the unified block structure, context keys, template rules, and serialization boundaries across Coralite.

• Quick Start (Installation)

  Learn how to install Coralite and bootstrap a new project quickly.

• Server-Side Rendering (SSR)

  Deep dive into Coralite's SSR architecture, server blocks, and performance patterns.

• Components (Static & Dynamic)

  Master both static HTML-based components and dynamic components with reactive logic.

• Managing the DOM (Refs)

  Learn how to easily target and manipulate DOM elements without querying.

• Page Metadata

  Manage SEO tags and page-specific metadata securely with the built-in plugin.

• Page Variables

  Understand the built-in path and URL context variables automatically injected into your pages.

• Reactivity & Context

  Master fine-grained reactivity, signals, getters, async getters, observe, updateComplete, and context injection.

• Styling & Slots

  Explore Light DOM CSS scoping, :host rewrites, reactive custom properties, slot projections, and slot transformations.

• Self-Healing Code & Diagnostics

  Leverage static analysis, 1-shot AST auto-fixing, AI pair-programming rules, and strict CI gates.

• Content Security Policy (CSP)

  Harden your applications with nonces, automated SHA-256 hashing, and external script bundling.

• Client-Side JavaScript

  Dive deep into complex client-side interactions and lifecycle hooks.

• Styling & CSS

  Master techniques for scoping styles and organizing your application's CSS.

• Authoring Plugins

  Learn how to create powerful custom plugins to extend the Coralite framework.

• Internationalization (i18n)

  Discover internationalization patterns including locale routing, message bundles, native Intl formatting, and RTL support.

• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

  Learn about built-in metadata extraction, plugin-driven sitemaps and RSS feeds, robots.txt, and SEO framework boundaries.

• Handling Binary Assets

  Best practices for importing and managing images, fonts, and other static files.

• SPA Router

  Build single-page applications on static output: outlets and persistent elements, guards, navigation events, and state that survives route swaps.

• Building Applications

  Learn how to architect Coralite apps across Pure SSG, Hybrid data fetching, and SPA modes.

• Testing & Deployment

  Comprehensive guide to unit testing, E2E testing with Playwright, static deployment, and CSP configuration.

• E2E Testing & Hydration

  Learn how to test Coralite apps using Playwright or Cypress by waiting for hydration.