Code to pantry

Nathan's pantry (github.com/nweii/pantry) is a personal collection of modular, self-contained code recipes. The goal is to capture the technique, stripped of its original context, in a form that can be dropped into any future project without modification.

What makes a good pantry entry

A pantry entry should be:

• Truly abstracted: no variable names, imports, comments, or usage examples that reference the source project. Someone reading the component cold should have no idea where it came from.
• Self-contained: all logic lives in one file; external dependencies are minimal and explicit
• Opinionated defaults: parameterized just enough for useful variation, with sensible defaults that work out of the box without configuration
• Named for the technique, not the use case (e.g., grain, not background-texture)

Step 1: Understand what to extract

Read the code the user is pointing at. If they haven't pointed at specific code, ask them to identify it.

Then identify:

• The core technique: what is the conceptual pattern, independent of the surrounding application?
• App-specific shell: what parts are wired to this specific app's state, routing, styling system, or data model?