`react-doctor/no-excessive-card-surfaces`

Page boxes too many groups into cards

Category: Maintainability
Severity: warn
Source: oxlint-plugin-react-doctor
Framework: global
Enabled when: always
Tags: design, test-noise
Default: Disabled until configured

Validate the diagnostic

Confirm the reported code matches this rule before you edit it.

Confirm the reported code matches react-doctor/no-excessive-card-surfaces. Compare it with the Before example and verify the same API, framework, and execution context. Treat it as a false positive only when one of those conditions differs.

Compare the code

The corrected pattern shows a focused way to address the diagnostic.

Reported pattern

const Dashboard = () => (
  <main>
    <section className="rounded-xl border p-6">Summary</section>
    <section className="rounded-xl border p-6">Activity</section>
    <section className="rounded-xl border p-6">Owners</section>
    <section className="rounded-xl border p-6">Timeline</section>
    <section className="rounded-xl border p-6">Risks</section>
    <section className="rounded-xl border p-6">Actions</section>
  </main>
);

Corrected pattern

const Dashboard = () => (
  <main>
    <header>Summary</header>
    <section>Activity</section>
    <section>Owners</section>
    <hr />
    <section>Timeline</section>
    <aside className="rounded-xl border p-6">Risks and actions</aside>
  </main>
);

How to fix

Use the corrected pattern as a reference. Preserve behavior that the rule does not require you to change.

Copyable fix prompt

Copy this self-contained prompt into your coding agent after you confirm the diagnostic.

Fix every confirmed react-doctor/no-excessive-card-surfaces diagnostic in the current repository. Required change: - Let related content share the page surface and use spacing, dividers, or typography before adding another card boundary.

Reference transformation:Before:

const Dashboard = () => (
  <main>
    <section className="rounded-xl border p-6">Summary</section>
    <section className="rounded-xl border p-6">Activity</section>
    <section className="rounded-xl border p-6">Owners</section>
    <section className="rounded-xl border p-6">Timeline</section>
    <section className="rounded-xl border p-6">Risks</section>
    <section className="rounded-xl border p-6">Actions</section>
  </main>
);

After:

const Dashboard = () => (
  <main>
    <header>Summary</header>
    <section>Activity</section>
    <section>Owners</section>
    <hr />
    <section>Timeline</section>
    <aside className="rounded-xl border p-6">Risks and actions</aside>
  </main>
);

Constraints: - Confirm the reported code matches the Before pattern. - Make the smallest change that fixes the root cause. - Preserve behavior and interfaces unrelated to this diagnostic. - Reuse existing project components, utilities, and conventions. - Do not introduce render-phase side effects, render-phase state updates, or Hooks rule violations. - Use existing brand assets, product facts, content, and design tokens. - Do not invent claims, customer data, typefaces, or artwork. - Adapt identifiers and framework details instead of copying blindly. - Do not disable the rule or suppress matching code. Verification: - Run focused tests for the changed behavior. - Run React Doctor and confirm this diagnostic no longer appears. - Report the files changed and any checks you could not run.

More Maintainability rules from the rules reference:

react-doctor/no-excessive-centered-copy: Page centers multiple body-copy blocks
react-doctor/no-excessive-font-families: Page mixes too many font families
react-doctor/no-excessive-pill-treatment: Page overuses pill-shaped treatments
react-doctor/no-fake-browser-chrome: Preview redraws decorative browser chrome
react-doctor/no-flat-page-type-scale: Page typography uses a compressed size range

react-doctor/no-excessive-card-surfaces