A workspace you can change, sections that open, a line that reaches the page you are on, and a rail it folds to.
The prompt33,673 characters
Add the "Sidebar" 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 Sidebar, from the source below.
2. Install what it needs: npm i framer-motion lucide-react
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
--font-ui
--ink
--ink-2
--ink-3
--ink-4
--ink-rgb
--on-ink
--pane-edge
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.
--- Sidebar.tsx ---
import { useEffect, useLayoutEffect, useRef, useState } from "react";
import { AnimatePresence, motion, useSpring as useFmSpring } from "framer-motion";
import { Check, ChevronDown, ChevronRight, Folder, Home, Inbox, PanelLeft, Settings, Users, type LucideIcon } from "lucide-react";
/* ══ Sidebar ══════════════════════════════════════════════
The left edge of an application: a workspace you can
change, places to be, some with places inside them, one
highlight that goes where you look, a line that reaches
the page you are on — and a rail the whole thing folds to.
THE LINE REACHES THE ACTIVE PAGE. A section that is open
hangs a dashed guide under its icon, the way a file tree
does, and one solid stroke runs down that guide and turns
into the row you are on: the indent, drawn. Pick another
page and the stroke's end slides to it on a spring; the
guide stays. It says where you are the way a bookmark
does, without a fill, and it never appears twice.
ONE HIGHLIGHT THAT TRAVELS. The wash under the pointer is
one element placed by layout arithmetic (offsetTop, in
the block's own pixels), so it is right at any zoom, and
it comes home to the active row when the pointer leaves.
A SECTION OPENS BY GROWING, not by appearing: its height
The rest — the source and its comments — is what the plan opens.
