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Shortcuts Hook

@nimibyte/shortcuts-hook - Keyboard interaction primitives for React surfaces where command behavior must stay predictable.

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Design Intent

This package exists to centralize keyboard shortcut handling with explicit lifecycle ownership.

Shortcut logic is often duplicated, conflicting, and difficult to reason about at scale.

Trade-offs: It emphasizes predictable binding and cleanup over broad plugin-style extensibility.

Intentionally not solving: Global command palettes, complex macro systems, or framework-agnostic keyboard orchestration.

API Surface

API
  • Shortcut registration
  • Lifecycle-aware binding
  • Scoped handler execution
  • Deterministic cleanup

Use It When

  • Your product has repeated keyboard interactions across views.
  • You need deterministic cleanup when components mount and unmount.
  • You want keyboard behavior decoupled from rendering logic.

Avoid It When

  • Your UI has no meaningful keyboard navigation layer.
  • You need a full command-platform abstraction.
  • You are not operating in a React runtime.

Engineering Signal

This reflects Nimibyte's engineering posture: narrow APIs, explicit operational boundaries, and predictable behavior under lifecycle changes. We prioritize maintainability before feature breadth.

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