frontend-patterns/research/catalog/SourceCatalog.md

Source Catalog

Identified primary sources

ID	Source and edition	State	Prepared input
SRC-0001	Ryan Carniato, The Grand Unifying Architecture of Frontend; web edition accessed 2026-09-24; displayed Sep 22, year unverified	extracted; initial manual review; live draft completed; admission rejected (review)	Authority and feedback packet
SRC-0002	Martin Kleppmann, Adam Wiggins, Peter van Hardenberg, Mark McGranaghan, Local-first software; April 2019 web essay; DOI 10.1145/3359591.3359737; accessed 2026-09-24	extracted; initial manual review; live bounded investigation completed; no candidates justified (review)	Local authority packet
SRC-0003	Joplin, Architecture; living docs accessed 2026-09-25, release/date unknown	extracted; E04 in expansion review	Manual located review
SRC-0004	Joplin, Synchronisation; living docs accessed 2026-09-25, release/date unknown	extracted; E05–E06 in expansion review	Manual located review
SRC-0005	Joplin, What is a conflict?; living docs accessed 2026-09-25, release/date unknown	extracted; live run completed, editorial revision needed	Conflict packet
SRC-0006	Obsidian, Troubleshoot Sync; living docs accessed 2026-09-25, release/date unknown	extracted; live run completed, proposed relations rejected	Conflict packet
SRC-0007	Obsidian, Back up files; living docs accessed 2026-09-25, release/date unknown	extracted; E11–E12 in expansion review	Manual located review
SRC-0008	Kubernetes, API Concepts; living docs accessed 2026-09-25, revision unknown	T01; bounded live extraction and editorial review	Stale-write packet
SRC-0009	GitLab, Repository files API; living docs accessed 2026-09-25, revision unknown	T02; manual located review	Transactional review
SRC-0010	Stripe, Idempotent requests; living docs accessed 2026-09-25, revision unknown	T03; manual located review	Transactional review
SRC-0011	React Router, Network Concurrency Management; living docs accessed 2026-09-25, revision unknown	T04; manual located review	Transactional review
SRC-0012	React Router, Pending UI; living docs accessed 2026-09-25, revision unknown	T05; manual located review	Transactional review

Queued does not mean reviewed. Bibliography and hashes live in each workspace's source artifact and manifest. Preparation review records selection, provenance limits and remaining work. Claim IDs will resolve inside completed source reviews; preparation packets do not establish a pattern.

Source families to investigate

Family	Representative sources	Research purpose
Pattern languages	Christopher Alexander, Hillside/PLoP literature	Pattern form, relations, generative sequences
GUI architecture	Martin Fowler, MVC/MVP/Presentation Model	Presentation/domain/state separation
Unidirectional state	Flux, Redux, Elm	State transition and dependency direction
Hypermedia	REST, HTML forms, HTMX	Navigation, mutation, server projection
Rendering	web.dev, framework docs, Patterns.dev	CSR/SSR/SSG/hydration/islands/streaming
Local-first	Ink & Switch and related work	Local authority, sync, conflict handling
Distributed state	CRDT/event sourcing/sync literature	Reconciliation and replication
Modularity	Feature-Sliced Design	Feature boundaries and dependency rules
Organizational architecture	Microfrontend literature	Independent ownership/deployment
Quality	WCAG, progressive enhancement, web performance	Cross-cutting architectural forces

Catalog policy

Each source should eventually capture:

• source identity,
• date/version,
• scope,
• vocabulary used,
• candidate patterns,
• dominant forces,
• assumptions,
• contradictions,
• known implementations,
• evidence quality.

2026-09-24: initial authority-focused reviews are recorded as extracted. They have not passed a full-source or independent review gate. Live calls failed before any artifact generation. See AuthorityPilot for findings, execution evidence and limitations.

2026-09-25: local-first -06 completed after replacing padded claim tables with compact records. Its bounded negative result does not complete full-source review. Source state remains extracted; recurrence and independent implementations remain open.

Pinned frontend implementations — 2026-09-25

SRC-0013 Zulip, SRC-0014 Element Web, SRC-0015 Matrix JS SDK and SRC-0016 Matrix client-server specification v1.15 are inspected in the frontend recovery review. The manifest records exact revisions, file URLs and SHA-256 hashes. State: bounded static review; no runtime validation. Element and its SDK are one implementation family. Complete-pattern recurrence remains unproven despite two partial draft-preservation uses.

Executable SDK follow-up — 2026-09-25

SRC-0017: published matrix-js-sdk 42.3.0; npm archive and integrity recorded in experiment provenance. State: executed under controlled synthetic transport. Four cases pass; server guarantees remain assumptions. This is the SRC-0014/0015 implementation family, not another independent application. Review.