frontend-performance-lab

The AI-powered performance engine for modern frontend teams.
Catch layout thrashing, memory leaks, and render explosions before they reach production.

Quick Start • Why FPL? • Features • Architecture • Contributing

⚡ Quick Start

Get up and running with the CLI and MCP server in under two minutes:

# 1. Install the CLI globally
npm install -g @smg99/frontend-performance-lab-cli

# 2. Configure your IDE (Cursor, Claude, VS Code, Windsurf)
fpl setup

# 3. Verify installation
fpl doctor

Restart your IDE and you're ready to go!

What happens during setup?

• ✓ Installs the @smg99/frontend-performance-lab-cli globally
• ✓ Detects your active IDE (Cursor, Claude Desktop, Windsurf, etc.)
• ✓ Configures the MCP server automatically in your IDE settings
• ✓ Verifies the connection and dependencies with fpl doctor
• ✓ Ready to use immediately to analyze your components

🤔 Why Frontend Performance Lab?

Traditional AI assistants understand code. Frontend Performance Lab understands frontend performance.

Modern frameworks like React and Vue are fast by default — until they aren't. A single deep array watcher or a forced synchronous layout can crash your Lighthouse score and ruin the user experience.

Frontend Performance Lab provides your AI assistant (via MCP) with a massive, specialized knowledge graph dedicated entirely to making browsers render frames faster and consume less memory.

Built For:

• Vue, React, Nuxt, Next.js, Svelte, Angular
• Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code, Windsurf

✨ Features

🔬 AST Performance Analyzer

Drop in any .vue, .jsx, or .js file. The engine uses Babel AST traversal to instantly detect layout thrashing, event listener leaks, massive render trees, and reactivity pitfalls.

🤖 MCP Integration

The full knowledge base — experiments, recipes, browser APIs — exposed directly to your AI assistant. Ask Cursor or Claude to "optimize this component using Frontend Performance Lab" and watch the magic happen.

🧪 Interactive Experiments

Live Vue and React components you can tweak in real time. See what happens to frame rates when you skip virtualization on a 10,000-row list, or trigger a forced synchronous layout.

📖 Recipes & Browser APIs