swarm-ui: page-switch animation (pop entrance + nav underline travel)

Shell's page content now remounts on every navigation and plays a
scale+fade pop-in entrance. The active nav link's underline is now a
single shared element that slides to its new position instead of
snapping, re-colouring to a per-tab accent — a discrete cycle through
the existing base16 chromatic slots, not a continuous hue rotation.
Both are gated on the data-motion/prefers-reduced-motion plumbing
lib/motion-apply.ts already had wired and waiting for a first real
consumer.
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iris 2026-08-19 19:16:53 +02:00 committed by mara
commit 6be1bbd4f7
3 changed files with 179 additions and 29 deletions

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@ -3,15 +3,14 @@
// when the override is "system" (letting `prefers-reduced-motion`
// alone decide, same as today).
//
// Currently inert: swarm-ui has zero CSS animations as of this file's
// writing (the design guide's "playful whimsy" motion — the matrix-rain
// home background — lives in the dashboard package, not swarm-ui). This
// hook exists because the settings surface itself was scoped to cover
// theme *and* motion together (both named in the same go-ahead), and the
// marginal cost of the storage/attribute plumbing is near zero riding
// alongside the theme override's real wiring — but there is genuinely
// nothing in swarm-ui for `data-motion` to gate yet. The first swarm-ui
// animation's own CSS is what makes this do anything, e.g.:
// Built ahead of swarm-ui having any CSS animation to gate — the
// settings surface itself was scoped to cover theme *and* motion
// together (both named in the same go-ahead), and the marginal cost of
// the storage/attribute plumbing was near zero riding alongside the
// theme override's real wiring. `Shell`'s page-switch animation (the
// nav indicator's slide + the page-body pop) is the first real
// consumer — see `shell/Shell.css`'s file-top comment for the
// three-rule gate shape every animation here follows:
// @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) { ... }
// :root[data-motion='reduce'] { ... same rule ... }
// :root[data-motion='allow'] { /* opt back in despite OS-level reduce */ }

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@ -8,7 +8,17 @@
menu: a narrow viewport (phone or a tiled desktop window) wraps onto
a second line instead of overflowing "don't break, don't
over-invest" is the explicit scope here, not full mobile navigation
redesign. */
redesign.
Page-switch animation (see Shell.tsx's file-top comment for the JS
half): both the nav indicator's slide and the page-body pop follow
the same three-rule motion-guard shape `lib/motion-apply.ts`'s own
doc comment specifies a base rule,
`@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)` to respect the OS default,
`:root[data-motion='reduce']` as the explicit override (same
specificity as the media rule, so source order after it wins), then
`:root[data-motion='allow']` last to re-enable despite an OS-level
reduce preference. */
.shell-header {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
@ -27,6 +37,7 @@
display: flex;
flex-wrap: wrap;
gap: 1em;
position: relative; /* anchor for .shell-nav-indicator */
}
/* Holds `SettingsMenu` + `LinksMenu` one `margin-left: auto` on the
wrapper, not one on each child (see Shell.tsx's comment for why two
@ -60,15 +71,64 @@
color: var(--fg);
}
.shell-nav-link-text {
padding-bottom: 0.25em;
border-bottom: 2px solid transparent;
padding-bottom: 0.25em; /* gap between the text and .shell-nav-indicator below it */
}
.shell-nav-link-active {
color: var(--fg);
border-bottom-color: var(--purple);
}
/* Shared underline, one element instead of one border-bottom per link
see Shell.tsx's file-top comment. `left`/`top`/`width` are set
inline per-render from a real measurement; only the *transition*
between those values lives here. */
.shell-nav-indicator {
position: absolute;
height: 2px;
border-radius: 1px;
transition:
left 200ms ease,
top 200ms ease,
width 200ms ease,
background-color 200ms ease;
}
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
.shell-nav-indicator {
transition: none;
}
}
:root[data-motion='reduce'] .shell-nav-indicator {
transition: none;
}
:root[data-motion='allow'] .shell-nav-indicator {
transition:
left 200ms ease,
top 200ms ease,
width 200ms ease,
background-color 200ms ease;
}
.shell-body {
max-width: 60em;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 1.5em 1.25em;
animation: shell-page-enter 220ms cubic-bezier(0.34, 1.56, 0.64, 1);
}
@keyframes shell-page-enter {
from {
opacity: 0;
transform: scale(0.97);
}
to {
opacity: 1;
transform: scale(1);
}
}
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
.shell-body {
animation: none;
}
}
:root[data-motion='reduce'] .shell-body {
animation: none;
}
:root[data-motion='allow'] .shell-body {
animation: shell-page-enter 220ms cubic-bezier(0.34, 1.56, 0.64, 1);
}

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@ -12,20 +12,30 @@
// has exactly one place that needs to know its own nav, and this is
// it. Grows additively as real routes land (a swarm-wide agent roster
// is next); no speculative entries.
import { useEffect, useState } from 'preact/hooks';
//
// Page-switch animation, two pieces (motion-guard rules live in
// Shell.css): `.shell-body` remounts on every navigation
// (`key={location}`) to replay a pop-in entrance, and a single shared
// underline (`.shell-nav-indicator`, replacing what used to be a
// per-link border) slides to the active link's measured position and
// re-colours to that tab's own accent. Accent is a discrete cycle
// through the existing base16 chromatic slots (`NAV_ITEMS`' `accent`
// field), not a continuous hue rotation — everything here still
// derives from base16, same rule the rest of the palette follows.
import { useEffect, useRef, useState } from 'preact/hooks';
import type { ComponentChildren } from 'preact';
import { Link, useRoute } from 'wouter-preact';
import { Link, useLocation } from 'wouter-preact';
import { LinksMenu } from './LinksMenu.js';
import { SettingsMenu } from './SettingsMenu.js';
import { useApplyThemeOverride } from '../lib/theme-apply.js';
import { useApplyMotionOverride } from '../lib/motion-apply.js';
import './Shell.css';
const NAV_ITEMS: { href: string; label: string }[] = [
{ href: '/', label: 'hives' },
{ href: '/create-agent', label: 'new agent' },
{ href: '/jobs', label: 'jobs' },
{ href: '/components', label: 'components' },
const NAV_ITEMS: { href: string; label: string; accent: string }[] = [
{ href: '/', label: 'hives', accent: 'var(--purple)' },
{ href: '/create-agent', label: 'new agent', accent: 'var(--cyan)' },
{ href: '/jobs', label: 'jobs', accent: 'var(--pink)' },
{ href: '/components', label: 'components', accent: 'var(--blue)' },
];
// Static fallback — matches `index.html`'s `<title>` default, so a page
@ -34,21 +44,47 @@ const NAV_ITEMS: { href: string; label: string }[] = [
// same generic label the pre-fetch page already showed, not a blank.
const DEFAULT_BRAND = 'hyperhive swarm';
function NavLink({ href, label }: { href: string; label: string }) {
const [active] = useRoute(href);
interface IndicatorRect {
left: number;
top: number;
width: number;
accent: string;
}
function NavLink({
href,
label,
active,
textRef,
}: {
href: string;
label: string;
active: boolean;
textRef: (el: HTMLSpanElement | null) => void;
}) {
return (
<Link href={href} className="shell-nav-link">
{/* Touch target (min-height) lives on the <a> so the whole row is
tappable; the active-state underline lives on this inner span
so it hugs the text instead of sitting at the bottom of the
full-height box, ~0.7em away from it. */}
<span class={'shell-nav-link-text' + (active ? ' shell-nav-link-active' : '')}>{label}</span>
tappable. The underline itself no longer lives here see
`.shell-nav-indicator` this span is still what gets
measured to position that shared indicator, so it hugs just
the text rather than the full-height tappable box. */}
<span
ref={textRef}
class={'shell-nav-link-text' + (active ? ' shell-nav-link-active' : '')}
>
{label}
</span>
</Link>
);
}
export function Shell({ children }: { children: ComponentChildren }) {
const [swarmName, setSwarmName] = useState<string | null>(null);
const [location] = useLocation();
const navRef = useRef<HTMLElement | null>(null);
const textRefs = useRef<Record<string, HTMLSpanElement | null>>({});
const [indicator, setIndicator] = useState<IndicatorRect | null>(null);
// Applied once here, not inside `SettingsMenu` — every route mounts
// through this one `<Shell>`, so the override takes effect regardless
@ -59,6 +95,36 @@ export function Shell({ children }: { children: ComponentChildren }) {
useApplyThemeOverride();
useApplyMotionOverride();
// Re-measures on every navigation and on resize (the nav's own
// `flex-wrap` means a link's position genuinely changes at narrow
// widths, not just its route). `getBoundingClientRect()` on both
// elements at the same tick keeps this scroll-position-agnostic — a
// difference of two viewport-relative rects is scroll-invariant, no
// separate scroll-offset bookkeeping needed. No indicator (hidden via
// `left: 0; width: 0`) on a route with no matching nav item (404).
useEffect(() => {
function measure() {
const navEl = navRef.current;
const activeItem = NAV_ITEMS.find((item) => item.href === location);
const textEl = activeItem ? textRefs.current[activeItem.href] : null;
if (!navEl || !activeItem || !textEl) {
setIndicator(null);
return;
}
const navRect = navEl.getBoundingClientRect();
const textRect = textEl.getBoundingClientRect();
setIndicator({
left: textRect.left - navRect.left,
top: textRect.bottom - navRect.top,
width: textRect.width,
accent: activeItem.accent,
});
}
measure();
window.addEventListener('resize', measure);
return () => window.removeEventListener('resize', measure);
}, [location]);
// Fetched once here, not per-page: every route mounts inside one
// `<Shell>`, and the swarm's name doesn't change within a page
// visit. A fetch failure is silently ignored — `swarmName` just stays
@ -85,10 +151,31 @@ export function Shell({ children }: { children: ComponentChildren }) {
<div class="shell">
<header class="shell-header">
<span class="shell-brand">{brand}</span>
<nav class="shell-nav">
<nav class="shell-nav" ref={navRef}>
{NAV_ITEMS.map((item) => (
<NavLink key={item.href} href={item.href} label={item.label} />
<NavLink
key={item.href}
href={item.href}
label={item.label}
active={item.href === location}
textRef={(el) => {
textRefs.current[item.href] = el;
}}
/>
))}
{/* Shared sliding underline see the file-top comment. Hidden
(zero width) rather than unmounted when there's no active
nav item (404), so it doesn't pop in with a stale position
the next time a real nav item becomes active. */}
<span
class="shell-nav-indicator"
style={{
left: `${indicator?.left ?? 0}px`,
top: `${indicator?.top ?? 0}px`,
width: `${indicator?.width ?? 0}px`,
backgroundColor: indicator?.accent ?? 'transparent',
}}
/>
</nav>
{/* Single `margin-left: auto` on the wrapper, not on each menu
individually two adjacent flex items both set to
@ -99,7 +186,11 @@ export function Shell({ children }: { children: ComponentChildren }) {
<LinksMenu />
</div>
</header>
<div class="shell-body">{children}</div>
{/* Keyed by route so it remounts (and replays its entrance
animation) on every navigation see the file-top comment. */}
<div class="shell-body" key={location}>
{children}
</div>
</div>
);
}