react-doctor/no-generic-purple-blue-icon-gradient
Compact icon tile uses a generic purple-to-blue gradient
- Category: Maintainability
- Severity: warn
- Source:
oxlint-plugin-react-doctor - Framework: global
- Enabled when: tailwind
- Tags: design, test-noise, react-jsx-only
- Default: Disabled until configured
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Confirm the reported code matches react-doctor/no-generic-purple-blue-icon-gradient. 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.
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The corrected pattern shows a focused way to address the diagnostic.
Reported pattern
<div className="size-8 rounded bg-linear-to-r from-purple-500 to-blue-500 flex">
<BoltIcon />
</div>Corrected pattern
<div className="size-8 rounded-lg bg-slate-900 flex">
<BoltIcon />
</div>How to fix
Use the corrected pattern as a reference. Preserve behavior that the rule does not require you to change.
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Fix every confirmed
Reference transformation:Before:react-doctor/no-generic-purple-blue-icon-gradient diagnostic in the current repository.
Required change:
- Use a product color, neutral surface, or unboxed icon instead of a generic purple-to-blue gradient tile.<div className="size-8 rounded bg-linear-to-r from-purple-500 to-blue-500 flex">
<BoltIcon />
</div><div className="size-8 rounded-lg bg-slate-900 flex">
<BoltIcon />
</div>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.
- Confirm this rule is enabled for the project:
tailwind.
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.Related rules
More Maintainability rules from the rules reference:
react-doctor/no-giant-component: Extract logical sections into focused components: `<UserHeader />`, `<UserActions />`, etc.react-doctor/no-gradient-text: Use solid text colors for readability. If you need emphasis, use font weight, size, or a distinct color instead of gradientsreact-doctor/no-hairline-border-wide-shadow: Hairline border is paired with a diffuse shadowreact-doctor/no-hero-eyebrow-chip: Hero uses a decorative eyebrow labelreact-doctor/no-icon-tile-heading-stack: Card stacks an icon tile above its heading