Imports the visual direction from a claude.ai/design session ("PulseNode
Dashboard.dc.html") and reconciles it with the app's existing choices
rather than a wholesale swap: kept the IBM Plex Sans/Mono + Space
Grotesk typography and the pulse-green accent concept from the earlier
pass, adopted the imported design's structural ideas - a real
tonal/elevation token system (derived divider/muted colors via
color-mix instead of hardcoded per-theme duplicates, actual box-shadow
elevation), a 12-column bento grid with per-widget-type column spans
instead of uniform equal-width cards, fading-edge section dividers,
and a shared WidgetCard/MetricBar/StatusTag vocabulary so every widget
type stops repeating its own card markup.
Icons come from @phosphor-icons/react's /ssr entrypoint (bundled at
build time) rather than the imported design's unpkg.com CDN script -
that script is fine for the standalone design-tool preview, but a
runtime third-party call would break the self-hosted-only principle
already established (fonts self-hosted via next/font, no external
requests). New app/icon.svg reuses the same nav badge mark as the
favicon, replacing the never-touched create-next-app default.
Two new pieces of real functionality prompted by the design's mockup
toast/live-indicator, not just decoration: a "live" WebSocket
connection-status indicator (lib/ws/client.ts now tracks and exposes
real connection state), and a toast that fires on actual config:update
and config:error events - the latter finally surfaces config validation
failures in the browser, previously visible only in server logs despite
being designed for exactly this back in M1.
Grounds the visual design in the product's own subject matter (vital-
signs monitoring) rather than generic dark-mode defaults: a signature
"pulse" green tied to healthy status (the accent color and the "up"
status color are the same hue - a steady green pulse reads as
healthy, same convention as a cardiac monitor), a small ECG-trace
brand mark, and a restrained pulsing-glow animation on healthy status
dots (prefers-reduced-motion respected) as the one deliberate motion
touch. Typography moves off the bare system-ui stack: IBM Plex Sans
for UI text, IBM Plex Mono with tabular numerals for metric values
(CPU/mem/uptime/latency), Space Grotesk used once for the wordmark -
chosen partly for IBM Plex's own systems-monitoring heritage.
Functional additions:
- Light/dark toggle, independent of config.yml's theme.mode, persisted
to localStorage with a blocking inline script to avoid a flash of
the wrong theme on load; auto mode now genuinely follows
prefers-color-scheme instead of hardcoding dark.
- theme.customCssPath support via a new route handler that serves a
user-mounted CSS file at runtime (can't be a build-time import,
hence the targeted no-css-tags lint suppression), with a path-
traversal guard since it's still reading from disk on every request.
- Loading-skeleton state for widgets awaiting their first WebSocket
result, distinct from both the error state and genuine no-data.
Verified visually in Chrome: theme toggle switches instantly in both
directions, a live docker widget's status dot and monospace metrics
render correctly in both palettes, and config hot-reload still adds a
new widget without a page refresh.
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