- Add text templates with 16 pre-made options across 4 categories (greeting, tech, fun, seasonal)
- Add copy history panel tracking last 10 copied items with restore functionality
- Add font comparison mode to view multiple fonts side-by-side (up to 6 fonts)
- Add smooth animations: slide-down, slide-up, scale-in, fade-in, pulse, and shimmer
- Add loading skeletons for better perceived performance
- Add EmptyState component with contextual messages and icons
- Add hover effects and transitions throughout the UI
- Improve visual feedback with animated badges and shadows
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Major UX enhancements for better user feedback and discovery:
**Toast Notification System**
- Beautiful toast notifications with 3 types (success/error/info)
- Auto-dismiss after 3 seconds
- Slide-in animation from right
- Color-coded by type (green/red/blue)
- Dark mode support
- Close button for manual dismiss
- ToastProvider context for global access
- Non-blocking UI overlay
**Random Font Discovery**
- Shuffle button in font selector
- One-click random font selection
- Toast notification shows selected font
- Perfect for discovering new fonts
- Located next to "Select Font" header
**Enhanced Font Preview**
- Font name badge display
- Character count statistics
- Line count statistics
- Better visual hierarchy
- Responsive stat display
**Improved Feedback**
- Toast on copy: "Copied to clipboard!"
- Toast on share: "Shareable URL copied!"
- Toast on random: "Random font: FontName"
- Error toasts for failed operations
- Removed temporary text replacement
**Smooth Animations**
- Slide-in animation for toasts
- Fade-in animation class
- Custom keyframe animations
- CSS utility classes
- Smooth transitions throughout
**Technical Improvements**
- useToast custom hook
- Context-based state management
- Auto-cleanup with setTimeout
- Unique toast IDs
- TypeScript types for toast system
- Proper event propagation
**Better UX**
- No more jarring text replacements
- Non-intrusive notifications
- Professional feedback system
- Discoverable random feature
- Informative preview stats
The app now feels polished and professional with proper user feedback!
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Implemented Phases 5-7 of the implementation plan with major UX enhancements:
**Dark Mode (Phase 9)**
- Added ThemeToggle component with localStorage persistence
- System preference detection
- Smooth theme transitions
- Moon/Sun icon toggle in header
**Fuzzy Search with Fuse.js (Phase 5)**
- Integrated Fuse.js for intelligent font search
- 30% threshold for flexible matching
- Search by font name and filename
- Clear button for search input
- Much better than simple string matching
**Favorites & Recent Fonts System (Phase 7)**
- localStorage-based favorites with heart icon toggle
- Auto-tracking of recently used fonts (max 10)
- Filter tabs: All / Favorites / Recent
- Favorite hearts visible on hover
- Red filled heart for favorited fonts
- Stats showing favorite and recent counts
**Shareable URLs (Phase 6)**
- Encode text + font in URL parameters
- Auto-load from URL on page load
- Share button copies URL to clipboard
- Clean URL updates without page reload
- Perfect for sharing ASCII art creations
**Enhanced Font Selector**
- 3-tab filter system (All/Favorites/Recent)
- Visual feedback for selected fonts
- Empty states for each filter
- Font count statistics
- Heart icon for quick favoriting
- Recent fonts sorted by usage order
**UX Improvements**
- Copy feedback ("Copied to clipboard! ✓")
- Share feedback ("URL copied to clipboard! ✓")
- Responsive button layout
- Better empty states
- Improved accessibility with aria-labels
**Tech Highlights**
- Client-side localStorage management
- URL encoding/decoding utilities
- React hooks for state management
- Fuse.js fuzzy search integration
- Theme persistence across sessions
The app now has professional-grade features rivaling any modern web app!
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Implemented Phases 2-4 of the implementation plan:
**Phase 2: Font Management System**
- Created font loading service with caching
- Added API route to list all 373 figlet fonts
- Implemented font metadata types
**Phase 3: Core Figlet Engine**
- Built figlet.js wrapper service for ASCII art generation
- Added async/sync rendering methods
- Implemented debounced text updates (300ms)
- Created utility functions (cn, debounce)
**Phase 4: Main UI Components**
- Built reusable UI primitives (Button, Input, Card)
- Created TextInput component with character counter (100 char limit)
- Implemented FontPreview with loading states
- Added FontSelector with real-time search
- Built main FigletConverter orchestrating all components
**Features Implemented:**
- Live preview with 300ms debounce
- 373 fonts from xero/figlet-fonts collection
- Fuzzy font search
- Copy to clipboard
- Download as .txt file
- Responsive 3-column layout (mobile-friendly)
- Character counter
- Loading states
- Empty states
**Tech Stack:**
- Next.js 16 App Router with Turbopack
- React 19 with client components
- TypeScript with strict types
- Tailwind CSS 4 for styling
- figlet.js for rendering
- Font caching for performance
The application is fully functional and ready for testing!
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