Major improvements for production deployment and UX:
**Keyboard Shortcuts System**
- `/` - Focus font search instantly
- `Esc` - Clear search and close dialogs
- `Ctrl/Cmd + D` - Toggle dark/light mode
- `Shift + ?` - Show keyboard shortcuts help dialog
- Floating keyboard icon button for discoverability
- Beautiful modal with all shortcuts listed
- Global event listeners with proper cleanup
**Enhanced Search UX**
- Updated placeholder: "Search fonts... (Press / to focus)"
- Auto-focus on `/` keypress
- Auto-clear and blur on `Escape`
- Ref-based input focusing for reliability
**Docker Deployment**
- Multi-stage Dockerfile (deps, builder, nginx runner)
- Based on node:22-alpine for minimal size
- Static export served via nginx:alpine
- Built-in health check endpoint (/health)
- Optimized for production
**Nginx Configuration**
- Gzip compression for all text assets
- Aggressive caching for static assets (1 year)
- Security headers (X-Frame-Options, CSP, etc.)
- SPA routing support (try_files)
- Health check endpoint
- Performance tuning (sendfile, tcp_nopush)
**Documentation Updates**
- Corrected font count to accurate 373 fonts
- Updated README and IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN
- Added Docker deployment instructions
- Clarified .flf vs .tlf vs .flc formats
**Production Build**
- Tested static export build
- Total size: 8.0MB (including all fonts!)
- 4.7s build time with Turbopack
- All routes pre-rendered successfully
- Ready for CDN/static hosting
**Technical Highlights**
- useKeyboardShortcuts custom hook
- Event listener cleanup on unmount
- Ref forwarding for input focus
- Modal dialog with backdrop blur
- Keyboard-first navigation
The app is now production-ready with professional keyboard shortcuts
and Docker deployment support! 🎉🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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!
🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
