First pass of the /frontend-design overhaul against the mockups at
F:\Pictures\website\jobtracker\new. Two highest-leverage gaps from the
backlog note ("dark sidebar, KPI cards, exact status colours"):
- AppShell: nav rail is now a fixed dark navy (#0f172a) regardless of
the app's light/dark theme toggle, matching the mockup's signature
look -- selected item gets an indigo-tinted pill + icon accent,
muted slate text for the rest. Kept icon+label rows (mockup's sidebar
is text-only) since the existing collapsed-sidebar mode depends on
icons; that's a deliberate deviation, not an oversight.
- JobbjaktMark: replaced the briefcase glyph with the gradient
checkmark-in-square mark used throughout the mockups (hero, dashboard,
kanban) -- also fixed a latent SVG gradient id collision across
multiple rendered instances via useId().
- KanbanBoard: mockup uses color sparingly (a small dot in the column
header, a 4px accent on the card's left edge) rather than tinting the
whole column/card background as the previous version did. Reworked
to match; also swapped card title/subtitle order (job title bold,
company/location as subtitle) per the mockup.
Remaining for follow-up passes: Dashboard KPI card layout and the job
workspace (candidate-fit ring, AI summary card) -- both structurally
close already but not yet pixel-matched.
Verified: `next build` clean, all 57 frontend tests green, dark
sidebar confirmed live (computed bg #0f172a) against a running dev
server with light content mode forced.
Wave 6. Swaps react-scripts' build/dev tooling for Next.js while
keeping the app's actual routing/rendering model unchanged -- the app
is almost entirely behind auth with no proven SSR/SEO need, so a real
App Router rewrite would touch ~90 files for zero user-visible benefit.
- next.config.js: output:'export' (static HTML+JS, same "single
index.html served by nginx with try_files fallback" deploy as CRA).
- app/layout.tsx + app/page.tsx: root shell ports public/index.html's
<head>, mounts the whole existing App tree client-only (ssr:false)
since it reads window/localStorage during initial render and Next's
static prerender would otherwise execute that on the server.
- Renamed src/pages/ -> src/views/ (Next's Pages Router auto-detects
any `pages/` dir under the app root and tried to build our React
Router page components as its own routes).
- REACT_APP_* -> NEXT_PUBLIC_* across code, .env.development,
Dockerfile, docker-compose.yml build args.
- Replaced the CRA SVGR import (`ReactComponent` from .svg, unsupported
under Turbopack) with a small inline JobbjaktMark component.
- TypeScript 4.9 -> 5.9 (MUI v8's type-checked build needs syntax
4.9's parser rejects; CRA never hit this because babel doesn't
type-check).
- Dropped CRA-only files (index.tsx, reportWebVitals, react-app-env.d.ts,
public/index.html); kept react-scripts as the Jest test runner only
(next/jest migration not needed -- the existing config already works).
Verified: `next build` static export succeeds, `next dev` serves the
landing page and client-side routes (login etc.) correctly, all 57
frontend tests + 172 backend tests still green.
Known caveat: deep-linking straight to a sub-route (e.g. /login) 404s
in `next dev` since there's no server route for it -- the app only
ever mounts at "/". Production is unaffected: nginx's existing
try_files fallback still serves index.html for any path.
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