HR & People

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Four StatCards over the same dataset the directory below reads. Note the third one: more open leave requests is bad news, so its delta declares polarity: 'positive-down' and the upward arrow renders red. Colouring by arrow direction alone would have the dashboard congratulating a manager on a growing backlog.

Employee directory

Ten fields a person, and the questions HR asks combine them — who in Engineering started after 2022, who reports to Trần Quốc Bảo and is still onboarding — so the directory is a sheet rather than a list: DataGrid. The Filter menu joins conditions with and, the Sort menu stacks keys (department, then start date), and the quick filters above the grid write the very conditions the Filter menu lists: the status FilterChips set “Has any of” on Status, the department Combobox sets “Is” on Department. Their counts come from TanStack’s faceting, which counts under every filter except a column’s own, so each one answers “how many will I get”. To look a person up, add “Contains” on Employee — or press Ctrl+F to find text anywhere in the grid. Drag across cells and Ctrl+C copies the range as tab-separated text that a spreadsheet pastes as rows. Tick people and an ActionBar floats up to start their offboarding; move to a row — click it, or arrow to it — and the profile below follows.

The grid is readOnly. A directory is read, filtered and exported; a person’s title, team or manager changes through a form and an approval — the onboarding steps further down are one — not by typing over a cell in passing. So no cell opens an editor, and paste, cut and the add-row line are off, while sorting, filtering, pinning, find and copy all keep working. The checkboxes stay, because offboarding works on a selection: the select column is getDataGridSelectColumn({ enableRowMarkers: true }), where { readOnly: true } would leave plain row numbers. There is no pager and no search box: the grid virtualises its rows inside a box of fixed height, a person is found from the Filter menu or with Ctrl+F, and the View menu is the Columns toggle — Leave balance starts hidden there. The filters and the sort are the app’s state (state plus onColumnFiltersChange and onSortingChange), which is what lets the chips write them — and what would let a directory too big for the browser hand them to a server with manualFiltering and manualSorting.

Vietnamese names need nothing extra. The grid sorts text and select columns in the alphabet of its own language, so Đặng and Đỗ come before Vũ and Ngô before Nguyễn; its text operators and Ctrl+F fold marks and case on both sides, so “Contains duc thanh” finds Nguyễn Đức Thành — the same match as the package’s Combobox (both since 3.1.0). The one column with its own sortingFn is Status, which sorts in lifecycle order, read off EMPLOYMENT_STATUSES.

There is no row menu — a cell is one of the grid’s nine kinds, not a place for buttons — so one person is offboarded the way several are: tick, then Start offboarding on the bar. The bar follows the grid’s selection — open while rows are ticked, onOpenChange(false) calls table.resetRowSelection() — and is portalled into the directory’s own element through portalContainer, so Tab reaches it right after the grid, and anchor="container" centres it on the directory rather than the window. Nothing on the way up sets contain or a transform: the grid anchors its right-click menu with position: fixed too, and a containing block there would pull the menu away from the pointer — and the anchored bar off the directory’s centre. Start offboarding calls preventDefault() in onSelect to keep the bar and the selection while a ConfirmDialog asks — by name, with the leave to be paid out, when it is one person. The dialog is not inside the bar, and it stays mounted — only open moves. The bar unmounts the moment the selection clears, and an alert dialog unmounted in the same commit that confirms it never gets its open→closed transition: the pointer-events: none Radix puts on <body> is never lifted, and the page quietly stops accepting clicks. Staying mounted is also why the people it asks about are captured when it opens rather than read live: confirming changes the grid underneath while the dialog is still fading out on top of it. The result — “2 people moved to notice period.” — goes to a role="status" line, because the bar has gone by then.

Employee profile

What the directory’s focused row opens into — everything a grid cell cannot draw: LetterAvatar and StatusPill in the header, the facts HR looks up most, and the employment history as a Timeline. The history is derived from the record, never stored beside it: tick this person in the directory and start their offboarding from the bar, and the timeline gains a notice period and a last working day. Move to another row in the grid — click it, or arrow to it — and the panel follows.

activeIndex is what makes this a track rather than a list. Entries before it render as completed — a dot and a line in the ink step, which in the default palette is the gold fill itself, 1.86:1 on white — the active one carries aria-current="step", and the ones after it stay pending: the review, the last working day, whatever is booked. The package draws active and completed alike, so the preview fills the active dot through the data-status attribute the dot exposes. All of it is in the server render — the first paint, before hydration — because the entries are written straight into the timeline’s JSX; rendered by a component of your own, they would all show as pending until hydration.

Recruiting pipeline

Kanban, with the hiring stages as columns: Applied, Screening, Interview, Offer, Hired. Drag a candidate by the handle — with a mouse, a finger, or the keyboard: Space lifts, the arrow keys carry them between stages, Space drops, Escape puts them back — or use the card’s menu, whose Move to stage group needs no drag at all. The two hires in the last column are the two people onboarding in the directory above.

• One list, derived columns. Kanban wants Record<column, card[]>; the page keeps one flat candidate list. The board builds its columns with useMemo, in the order sortByStatusPriority reads off the stage table, and onValueChange writes the stage and the order back — on every drag-over, so the column counts move while the card is still in the air. Escape hands back the value from before the drag, through the same callback.
• A handle, not a whole-card drag. dnd-kit starts a drag on mousedown and swallows the click that follows, so a card that was its own handle could not hold a working menu. KanbanItemHandle sets touch-none itself, so a finger on the handle lifts the card instead of scrolling the page.
• The announcements are the app’s. The built-in ones follow the provider, but they say “card” and read out the column’s key. labels takes functions that receive the position and that key, so these name the candidate and the stage instead — and, being the app’s sentences now, they are the app’s to translate.
• Open scorecard on any card sends that candidate to the next section.

Interview scorecard

The interviewer’s side of the same board: one Rating per competency. Score a candidate here and the star average on their card above moves with it. Each Rating is a radiogroup — Tab lands on the chosen star, the arrow keys move and choose — and each star is named for what it means, “3 of 5, meets the bar”, through itemLabel, where the packaged name would only say “3 stars”.

Left out on purpose: a half-star step. A scorecard asks for a decision, not a 3.5.

Onboarding a new hire

The employee record, in the order a new hire’s record is actually filled in: personal details, role and team, equipment and access, then a review. Stepper keeps the steps; each one is a FormSection whose FormField children sit on a twelve-column grid. Press Next with the first step empty: onValidate returns false, the step shows its errors, and focus moves to the first field that failed. Jumping ahead from the step bar is checked the same way — every step before the target has to pass, not just the one you are on.

• Region, not language. The phone field gets defaultCountry="VN" from the workspace, so a local 090 123 4567 is stored as +84901234567 — the field’s hint shows the value it will save. Without a country, the same digits would be stored as +0901234567, a number that does not exist. The salary gets currency the same way; USD is only the package’s fallback, and the record stores MaskInput’s second argument — the bare number — not the $2,900 on screen.
• No locale on the date. The DatePicker’s placeholder already shows the order the provider’s language types in — MM/dd/yyyy in English, dd/MM/yyyy in Vietnamese — so the hint under it no longer spells a format out. A hint written by hand is wrong the day the workspace switches language.
• The server render knows the steps. They are written straight into the list, so Stepper reads them while it renders: the numbers, the separators, and Back and Next are right before hydration. A step rendered by a component of your own would leave the whole list at “0”, with Back and Next disabled, until then.
• “Step 2 of 4” is a status line. Pressing Next moves no focus, so that line is what tells a screen reader where it landed.

Leave requests

A DateRangePicker drives the whole queue: pick a window and the list, the pending count and the AvatarGroup of who is away all follow. Approve or decline a request and its StatusPill changes; narrow the range until nothing overlaps and the EmptyState offers the way back. The rows themselves are the Item family rather than hand-written list markup — the same parts the mobile layout of a DataTable falls back to, so a record card looks the same wherever it turns up.

The range picker needs nothing from the app to speak English: the calendar, the typing order and its screen-reader strings all follow the nearest ComitorLocaleProvider. What it still needs is the domain. DEFAULT_DATE_RANGE_PRESETS looks back — “Last 7 days”, “Last month”, and its “This month” stops at today — while a leave queue plans ahead, so the queue passes its own forward-looking presets. Presets the app builds show their label exactly as written, so a multilingual app translates them itself. One difference between the preview and the sample is deliberate: every RelativeTime in the preview takes a now, and the sample takes none. A live record is measured against the real clock; a frozen dataset measured against it drifts every day, and can print “in 2 hours” for a timestamp already in the past.

Attendance week

Today’s clock summary in three StatCards over a compact table of the week. Clock out — with the button, or by typing the time the badge reader missed into the TimePicker — and the cards, the Thursday row and the status line all move together: one piece of state, three views. The table sets density="compact", which overrides the app-wide density axis for this table only, and marks today with isRowActive rather than its own rowClassName tint: the prop paints the opaque accent on each cell, so it stays solid under the pinned cells and wins over the stripes this table turns on.

TimePicker stores 24-hour "HH:mm" whatever it shows, and the clock it shows follows the provider: 12-hour with AM/PM in English, 24-hour in Vietnamese, where the AM/PM segment is simply not rendered. Everything the page prints from that value goes through Intl.DateTimeFormat with the provider’s locale, so the cards and the table always read the same clock as the picker. min and max hold the field to the working day: hours before the badge-in and after now are greyed out in the columns, and a time typed outside the window goes to its nearest edge. The window includes its bounds, so “clock-out comes after clock-in” stays the app’s own check — pick 9:06 AM to see the message under the field — as does any value the app loads itself, which the picker shows as given.

Payroll run

The register for a period, with the totals computed from the rows on screen rather than typed in. Switch to September and run it: the ConfirmDialog states the amount and the headcount before anything moves, then every line flips to paid — except the one held for a final settlement, because a real run never has a single uniform status. Money leaving the company is exactly the kind of irreversible action that gets asked about once, through the same component everywhere.

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