Notifications with a count that rolls down as you read them.
The prompt26,317 characters
Add the "Inbox" component from notboring to my project.
It is licensed for use in my projects — notboring.dev/license. Please:
1. Create the component at a sensible path for this
project, named Inbox, from the source below.
2. Install what it needs: npm i framer-motion
3. Add the CSS to the project's stylesheet.
4. THE PART THAT NEEDS YOUR JUDGMENT. The CSS reads
these custom properties and does not define them:
--card
--danger
--danger-rgb
--font-ui
--ink
--ink-2
--ink-3
--ink-4
--ink-rgb
They are notboring's design tokens. Map each one to
whatever this project already uses for the same
job — its own ink, ground, surface and UI font —
rather than defining them as new globals. If the
project has no equivalent, define it locally on
the component's own root so nothing leaks out.
Anything ending -rgb wants three bare numbers,
because the CSS builds rgba() from it.
5. IF YOU CHANGE IT, GO ALL THE WAY. This block is
built for every state its object can really be
in — empty, one, full, refused, undone, pressed
twice, interrupted halfway — and not only the one
the demo opens on. Adapt it and the same standard
holds: work out that list before you write, and
build the whole of it. Never settle for the
minimum that makes the screenshot right. A
component somebody has to come back and finish is
the thing this was written to replace.
6. AVATARS is a stub
— notboring's own pictures are not licensed to
travel. Point it at this project's images, or
leave the placeholder and tell me.
Keep the comments. They say why the numbers are what
they are, and they are most of what makes this worth
copying rather than rewriting.
--- Inbox.tsx ---
import { useEffect, useRef, useState } from "react";
import { AnimatePresence, motion } from "framer-motion";
/* ══ Inbox ════════════════════════════════════════════════
Five notifications, and the number that says how many of
them you have not read.
THE COUNT IS DERIVED, AND IT ROLLS. There is no counter in
state: the number in the pill is how many rows are unread
and still here, worked out on every render, so it cannot
disagree with the dots below it — the same rule the cart
follows for its total. And it does not fade to the next
number, it rolls to it, downward, because reading is a
thing going down and the figure should say so.
THE CROSS COMES OUT OF THE EDGE, AND IT DELETES. The row
is whole until you point at it; then it gives up the last
twenty-six pixels of its line — the time slides left, the
cross comes out of the gap that opens — and everything goes
back when you leave. A control that is always up on five
rows is five invitations to destroy something.
AND ONE PRESS IS THE WHOLE OF IT. Everywhere else on this
bench a removal takes two beats and offers the way back,
The rest — the source and its comments — is what the plan opens.