Introduction

Philosophy explains why @stnd is built the way it is. This section
explains how it actually works — vertical slices, the module loader, the
CLI, the APIs — written by hand, for a human reading it start to finish or
jumping straight to one page.

What lives here, and what doesn’t

Every page in this book is prose someone wrote on purpose. That’s the line
that separates it from Reference: Reference is every
@stnd/* package’s own README, generated live from the source — accurate
by construction, but written for whoever maintains that one package, not
for someone learning the framework as a whole. If a page here and a
package README ever disagree, the README is closer to the code, but this
book is the one meant to be read.

Reading order

Pages are ordered by how often you’ll actually reach for them — the cheat
sheet first, calibration-grade architecture records last. That’s the same
Lightroom rule the rest of the
manual follows: cognitive load is a budget, spend it on what the reader
came for.