diff --git a/packages/react/src/error-boundary.tsx b/packages/react/src/error-boundary.tsx
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+/** @jsxImportSource react */
+import { Component, type ErrorInfo, type ReactNode } from "react";
+
+export interface IslandErrorBoundaryProps {
+  name: string;
+  development: boolean;
+  children: ReactNode;
+}
+
+interface IslandErrorBoundaryState {
+  error: Error | null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Contains island failures locally: a crashed island must never blank the
+ * surrounding server-rendered page.
+ */
+export class IslandErrorBoundary extends Component<
+  IslandErrorBoundaryProps,
+  IslandErrorBoundaryState
+> {
+  override state: IslandErrorBoundaryState = { error: null };
+
+  static getDerivedStateFromError(error: Error): IslandErrorBoundaryState {
+    return { error };
+  }
+
+  override componentDidCatch(error: Error, info: ErrorInfo): void {
+    console.error(`[wrnexus] island '${this.props.name}' failed to render`, error, info);
+  }
+
+  override render(): ReactNode {
+    const { error } = this.state;
+    if (!error) return this.props.children;
+    if (!this.props.development) return null;
+    return (
+      <div data-wrn-island-error={this.props.name} style={{ padding: "0.75rem" }}>
+        <strong>{`Island '${this.props.name}' failed`}</strong>
+        <pre>{error.stack ?? error.message}</pre>
+      </div>
+    );
+  }
+}
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diff --git a/packages/react/test/error-boundary.test.tsx b/packages/react/test/error-boundary.test.tsx
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+/** @jsxImportSource react */
+import { afterEach, expect, test } from "bun:test";
+import { Window } from "happy-dom";
+import { act } from "react";
+import { createRoot } from "react-dom/client";
+import { IslandErrorBoundary } from "../src/error-boundary.tsx";
+
+// React error boundaries only engage during client rendering — the server
+// renderers rethrow. Islands are client-only, so this is also how they run.
+(globalThis as any).IS_REACT_ACT_ENVIRONMENT = true;
+
+function Boom(): never {
+  throw new Error("chart exploded");
+}
+
+function mountHost() {
+  const window = new Window();
+  (globalThis as any).window = window;
+  (globalThis as any).document = window.document;
+  const container = window.document.createElement("div");
+  window.document.body.appendChild(container);
+  return { window, container: container as unknown as HTMLElement };
+}
+
+const silenced: Array<() => void> = [];
+
+afterEach(() => {
+  for (const restore of silenced.splice(0)) restore();
+});
+
+function silenceExpectedErrors() {
+  const original = console.error;
+  console.error = () => {};
+  silenced.push(() => {
+    console.error = original;
+  });
+}
+
+test("renders children when nothing throws", async () => {
+  const { container } = mountHost();
+  const root = createRoot(container);
+
+  await act(async () => {
+    root.render(
+      <IslandErrorBoundary name="Chart" development={false}>
+        <p>ok</p>
+      </IslandErrorBoundary>,
+    );
+  });
+
+  expect(container.innerHTML).toBe("<p>ok</p>");
+});
+
+test("contains a thrown error and shows details in development", async () => {
+  silenceExpectedErrors();
+  const { container } = mountHost();
+  const root = createRoot(container);
+
+  await act(async () => {
+    root.render(
+      <IslandErrorBoundary name="Chart" development>
+        <Boom />
+      </IslandErrorBoundary>,
+    );
+  });
+
+  expect(container.innerHTML).toContain("Chart");
+  expect(container.innerHTML).toContain("chart exploded");
+});
+
+test("renders nothing in production when an island throws", async () => {
+  silenceExpectedErrors();
+  const { container } = mountHost();
+  const root = createRoot(container);
+
+  await act(async () => {
+    root.render(
+      <IslandErrorBoundary name="Chart" development={false}>
+        <Boom />
+      </IslandErrorBoundary>,
+    );
+  });
+
+  expect(container.innerHTML).toBe("");
+});
+
+test("a crashed island does not remove sibling server markup", async () => {
+  silenceExpectedErrors();
+  const { window, container } = mountHost();
+  const sibling = window.document.createElement("p");
+  sibling.textContent = "server rendered";
+  window.document.body.appendChild(sibling);
+
+  const root = createRoot(container);
+  await act(async () => {
+    root.render(
+      <IslandErrorBoundary name="Chart" development={false}>
+        <Boom />
+      </IslandErrorBoundary>,
+    );
+  });
+
+  expect(window.document.body.textContent).toContain("server rendered");
+});
diff --git a/packages/react/tsconfig.json b/packages/react/tsconfig.json
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+{
+  "extends": "../../tsconfig.json",
+  "compilerOptions": {
+    "noEmit": true,
+    "jsx": "react-jsx",
+    "jsxImportSource": "react"
+  },
+  "include": ["src/**/*.ts", "src/**/*.tsx", "test/**/*.ts", "test/**/*.tsx"]
+}