# prpl

Teaches your coding agent the PRPL pattern to speed up initial page loads and PWA performance on slow networks.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1400 installs · ★ 257
- Author: patterns.dev
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/PatternsDev/skills/tree/HEAD/javascript/prpl/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-04-15
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/prpl

## What it does

This skill guides the AI assistant when working with JavaScript and TypeScript codebases matching `**/*.js` and `**/*.ts`. It enforces the four core steps of PRPL: push critical assets with HTTP/2 or preload hints, render the entry route immediately, pre-cache remaining routes via service workers, and lazy-load non-essential modules.

The reference material covers app shell architecture, code-splitting into lightweight bundles, and how HTTP/2 multiplexed streams resolve head-of-line blocking. The agent learns to structure entrypoints around minimal shared logic.

The source material warns that pushing too many assets consumes unnecessary bandwidth and exhausts browser cache. That makes targeted bundle splitting a mandatory requirement rather than an afterthought.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add PatternsDev/skills --skill prpl -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/prpl/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/prpl/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add PatternsDev/skills --skill prpl -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/prpl/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add PatternsDev/skills --skill prpl -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/prpl/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install PatternsDev/skills prpl
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/prpl/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add PatternsDev/skills --skill prpl -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/PatternsDev/skills --path javascript/prpl
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/prpl/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add PatternsDev/skills --skill prpl -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/PatternsDev/skills/tree/HEAD/javascript/prpl/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- optimize the critical rendering path on low-end devices
- configure resource preload hints and push strategies
- split client bundles around an app shell architecture
- set up background caching for offline route navigation

## Example prompts
- Help me implement an app shell architecture using the PRPL pattern
- Audit our JavaScript bundles and preload tags against PRPL guidelines
- How should we pre-cache secondary routes using a service worker?

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: prpl
description: Teaches the PRPL pattern for optimizing initial page load. Use when building Progressive Web Apps or when you need to push critical resources, render the initial route, pre-cache remaining routes, and lazy-load on demand.
paths:
  - "**/*.js"
  - "**/*.ts"
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: patterns.dev
  version: "1.1"
related_skills:
  - "module-pattern"
  - "singleton-pattern"
---

# PRPL Pattern

Making our applications globally accessible can be a challenge! We have to make sure the application is performant on low-end devices and in regions with a poor internet connectivity. In order to make sure our application can load as efficiently as possible in difficult conditions, we can use the PRPL pattern.

## When to Use

- Use this when building applications that need to perform well on low-end devices and slow networks
- This is helpful for optimizing the critical rendering path of web applications

## Instructions

- **Push** critical resources efficiently using HTTP/2 server push or preload hints
- **Render** the initial route as soon as possible for fast first paint
- **Pre-cache** frequently visited routes using service workers for offline support
- **Lazily load** routes and assets that aren't immediately needed
- Use an app shell architecture as the main entry point

## Details

The PRPL pattern focuses on four main performance considerations:

- **Push** critical resources efficiently, which minimizes the amount of roundtrips to the server and reducing the loading time.
- **Render** the initial route as soon as possible to improve the user experience
- **Pre-cache** assets in the background for frequently visited routes to minimize the amount of requests to the server and enable a better offline experience
- **Lazily load** routes or assets that aren't requested as frequently

When we want to visit a website, we first have to make a request to the server in order to get those resources. The file that the entrypoint points to gets returned from the server, which is usually our application's initial HTML file! The browser's HTML parser starts to parse this data as soon as it starts receiving it from the server. If the parser discovers that more resources are needed, such as stylesheets or scripts, another HTTP request is sent to the server in order to get those resources!

Having to repeatedly request the resources isn't optimal, as we're trying to minimize the amount of round trips between the client and the server!

For a long time, we used HTTP/1.1 in order to communicate between the client and the server. HTTP/2 introduced some significant changes compared to HTTP/1.1, which make it easier for us to optimize the message exchange between the client and the server.

Whereas HTTP/1.1 used a newline delimited plaintext protocol in the requests and responses, HTTP/2 splits the requests and responses up in smaller pieces called frames. An HTTP request that contains headers and a body field gets split into at least two frames: a headers frame, and a data frame!
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