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Summary

clients/core now builds the only Tailwind stylesheet in the document and scans every
micro-frontend for it, and the eight phase components stop compiling Tailwind altogether. This
removes the cascade collision from #2086, where a remote's injected stylesheet overrode core's
utilities, and it also fixes the mirror-image bug where a remote's utilities were never emitted at
all.

Details

Two problems, one root cause.

Remotes overriding core. assessment_component and presentation_component imported their
styles.css from their federated entry points, so style-loader appended a second complete
Tailwind build to <head> after core's. Both sheets carry the same globally named utilities, so the
later one won every equal-specificity duel: on <Input className='pl-9'> the remote's .px-3 beat
core's .pl-9, and the course search icon overlapped the placeholder.

Remotes with no styles at all. The other six remotes only imported styles.css from
src/index.js, the standalone dev entry that core never loads, so inside the shell they silently
depended on core's utility vocabulary. Core did not scan them, so every utility they used that core
did not use was missing: 49 of them in team_allocation_component alone, including cursor-grab,
border-l-4, h-[320px], h-[420px] and max-w-[525px], plus 15 in interview_component and 10
in self_team_allocation_component.

Ordering the two sheets cannot fix the first problem. A @layer order or a style-loader insertion
anchor can only pick one winner for every element, so making the host win means a remote can no
longer override a shared component's base class either, and reversing it restores #2086. Being right
in both directions needs a single sheet.

Changes:

  • clients/core/tailwind.config.js scans ../*_component/{src,routes,sidebar} on top of its own
    sources and the shared UI library. Its theme was already a strict superset of the library preset
    the remotes used, so nothing had to be merged.
  • Every *_component loses src/styles.css, tailwind.config.js and its CSS import.
    assessment_component/src/loadStyles.js is gone; its @media print rules move to a plain
    src/print.css that carries no Tailwind directives and stays imported from routes/. The
    standalone dev pages render nothing but a "load this from core" notice, so no workflow is lost,
    and with the entry points deleted the invariant is structural rather than a rule to remember.
  • pl-9! in CourseCards.tsx goes back to pl-9, which is what the fix has to prove.
  • scripts/check-remote-styles.sh fails CI if a component reintroduces a tailwind.config.* or any
    @tailwind, @config, @source, @apply or tailwindcss import in its CSS. It runs in its own
    job so it does not repeat nine times over the quality matrix. Plain CSS stays allowed.
  • The e2e assessment smoke spec gains a cascade assertion, and the rule is written down in the
    Module Federation and shadcn rules, clients/shared/readme.md, and the client guide.

One consequence worth knowing: because core scans its siblings, its stylesheet is only complete for
the commit it was built from. CI already guarantees that (every client image is built from the same
clients-base tag), but a deployment that mixes per-service image tags across clients could leave
utilities out. The new-phase guide records the matching caveat for out-of-repo phases, which core
cannot scan at all.

Reason / Link to issue

Closes #2086.

How to Test

  1. cd clients && yarn --cwd core build. grep -c 'cursor-grab{' core/build/main.*.js is 1, so a
    utility only team_allocation_component uses is now in core's sheet.
  2. yarn --cwd assessment_component build, then
    ! grep -rl 'px-3{' assessment_component/build passes: no remote emits utilities any more.
  3. ./scripts/check-remote-styles.sh passes, and fails once you add
    @import 'tailwindcss'; to any component stylesheet.
  4. make db && make server && make clients, log in, open an assessment phase so the remote loads,
    then use the sidebar home button to go back to the courses list without reloading. The search
    field keeps its 36px left padding and the icon no longer sits on the placeholder.
  5. On the same run, open a team allocation phase: the drag handles get cursor-grab and the panels
    get their h-[320px] / h-[420px] heights, none of which rendered before.
  6. make test-e2e-shard SHARD=assessment covers steps 4 in CI.

Screenshots

The visual change is the one #2087 patched with an important modifier: in the card view of
/management/general, the course search placeholder starts clear of the magnifier icon. It now
holds without the modifier, after any remote has been loaded.

PR Checklist

  • Tested locally or on the dev environment
  • Code is clean, readable, and documented
  • Tests added or updated (if needed)
  • Screenshots attached for UI changes (if any)
  • Documentation updated (if relevant)

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented component styles from overriding shared application styles, preserving consistent layouts and utility spacing across screens.
    • Improved navigation and print styling behavior in assessment and other course workflows.
  • Quality Improvements

    • Added automated checks to detect conflicting component-level Tailwind styles.
    • Added regression coverage confirming shell styling remains intact when switching between course areas.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified styling guidelines and requirements for component development and external course phases.

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Core builds the stylesheet that the whole shell uses, but it only scanned its
own sources and the shared UI library. Six of the eight remotes never inject a
stylesheet of their own - their styles.css is imported from src/index.js, the
standalone dev entry that core never loads - so every utility they use that
core does not use is simply missing today: cursor-grab, border-l-4, h-[320px],
max-w-[525px] and 45 more in team_allocation alone.

Scanning the sibling component directories makes core's sheet a superset of
what any remote renders, which is the precondition for dropping the remotes'
duplicate Tailwind builds.
…sheet

Every remote compiled a full Tailwind stylesheet. assessment and presentation
imported theirs from the federated entry points, so it landed in the host's
<head> after core's and won every equal-specificity duel: core's <Input
className='pl-9'> lost padding-left to the remote's copy of .px-3.

Ordering the sheets cannot fix that. Tailwind utilities are globally named, so
a layer order or an insertion anchor can only pick one winner for every
element; making the host win means a remote can no longer override a shared
component's base class either. Being right in both directions needs a single
sheet, which core now builds.

The other six remotes only imported their sheet from src/index.js, the
standalone dev entry core never loads, and every standalone page renders
nothing but a 'load this from core' notice. So the eight builds bought no
workflow, and deleting the entry points makes the invariant structural rather
than a rule someone has to remember.

Assessment's print rules move to a plain print.css, which carries no Tailwind
directives and stays imported from routes/.
pl-9! only existed because a remote's stylesheet could override .pl-9 with its
own .px-3. Core now builds the only Tailwind sheet in the document, so the
plain utility wins on its own.
A single grep-based check in its own job, so it does not run nine times over
the quality matrix. It rejects a tailwind.config.* under a component and any
@tailwind, @config, @source, @apply or tailwindcss @import in a component
stylesheet, while leaving plain CSS alone.
Loads the remote, walks back to the courses list through the sidebar, and
checks the search field still gets its 36px padding from a plain pl-9.

The walk has to stay in the same document: page.goto() would reload and drop
whatever the remote injected, so the assertion would pass on a broken build
too. A window marker set before the click fails the test if that ever happens.
The sidebar's home button gets a test id because it renders through asChild
and has no accessible name to target.
Records the rule and the reason in the four places a contributor would look:
the Module Federation and shadcn rules, the shared scaffolding readme, and the
client guide. The new-phase guide gets the external-repository caveat, since
core cannot scan a repository it does not have.
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The PR centralizes Tailwind generation in clients/core, removes Tailwind builds from remote applications, adds CI enforcement and contributor guidance, and adds end-to-end coverage for stylesheet cascade behavior.

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Core build and remote cleanup
clients/core/tailwind.config.js, clients/*_component/...
Core scans remote source, route, and sidebar directories. Remote Tailwind configurations, PostCSS integrations, stylesheet imports, and TypeScript include entries are removed. Assessment keeps its plain print.css import and adds CSS module typing.
Policy and CI enforcement
.claude/rules/..., .github/workflows/quality-clients.yml, clients/shared/readme.md, docs/contributor/..., scripts/check-remote-styles.sh
Guidance documents the single core-owned Tailwind stylesheet. The validation script rejects remote Tailwind configurations and directives. CI runs the script.
Cascade regression coverage
clients/core/src/..., e2e/src/pages/CoursesPage.ts, e2e/tests/assessment/mf-smoke.spec.ts
The shell adds a sidebar test identifier, and the assessment smoke test verifies that same-document navigation preserves the core pl-9 styling.

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clients/readme.md asked every component for a tailwind.config.js importing the
shared preset, and the reusable-components guide asked for a styles.css import
next to the tiptap stylesheet. Neither exists any more.
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@magkue ich glaube das ist das was du mal meintest, vielleicht könntest du da noch einen Blick drauf werfen

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        re.search(r"(?ms)^permissions:\s*\n\s+contents:\s+read\s*$", quality)
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    "dev invokes quality-clients": "./.github/workflows/quality-clients.yml" in dev,
    "tailwind job checks out then runs repository script": bool(
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In the actions/checkout GitHub Action, the persist-credentials input defaults to true [1][2][3]. When set to true, the action configures the authentication token or SSH key with the local Git configuration, which allows subsequent scripts in the job to run authenticated Git commands [1][4]. The action automatically removes these credentials during post-job cleanup [1][5]. While there have been community discussions and pull requests proposing to change this default value to false to enhance security [6], as of August 23, 2026, the official documentation and the action's configuration files (action.yml) maintain a default value of true [1][2][3]. Users who wish to opt out of this behavior and prevent the credential from being persisted in the local Git configuration should explicitly set persist-credentials: false in their workflow configuration [1][4].

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