Will It Vibe?Props spread straight through to a child (prop drilling marker)
Part of Architecture & Best Practices, which counts for 15% of the overall score. When this check fires it deducts 4 points from that category, once per scan, no matter how many places it turns up.
What it detects
Spreading {...props} onto a child component forwards every prop blindly, which is a common marker of prop drilling: passing data through layers that do not use it. It also leaks unexpected props and makes a component hard to reason about. Heuristic: a spread is sometimes the right call.
Why it matters
Spreading {...props} straight onto a child forwards every incoming prop without naming them, which is a common sign of prop drilling: data threaded through components that do not use it just to reach a deep child. It also risks passing unexpected or invalid props to DOM elements and makes the data flow hard to follow. This is a heuristic, since a deliberate pass-through wrapper is sometimes the right design.
How to fix it
Pass only the props the child actually needs, by name, so the data flow is explicit. If the same data is being threaded through many layers, lift it into React Context or a state manager so intermediate components do not have to forward it. Reserve full spreads for genuine wrapper components.
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