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Summary

When you get a notification and open the notifications page, nothing shows which entry is new: you have to find it yourself. Notifications that are new since your last visit now get the same highlight the log gives commits that just arrived: a blue left border and a soft blue background. The highlight holds for about three seconds, then fades. Notifications that arrive with the 30-second poll get it too.

As suggested in review, this is now a CSS animation only, with no JavaScript.

Changes

  • resources/css/app.css: a fresh-highlight theme animation (animate-fresh-highlight). It holds the same colours as [data-commit][data-fresh=''] for about 3 seconds of its 4.4 seconds, then fades out over the rest. It has no fill-mode, so the row's hover and focus backgrounds work again once it ends.
  • resources/js/pages/notification/index.tsx: a notification group gets animate-fresh-highlight when isNewSince(group, readAt) is true. That is the same rule as the entries above the HEAD@{last visit} marker. The row's key includes event_count, so a group highlights again when a new event joins it (for example another star). Rows already on the page don't replay the highlight when the poll refreshes the list.
  • The earlier use-fresh-rows hook, its test and the log page refactor are removed. The log is unchanged from production.

Validation

All run locally; hosted CI is pending.

  • bun run build: pass. The built CSS includes the fresh-highlight keyframes.
  • bun run test:lint and bun run test:types: pass.
  • bun run test:unit: 221 pass, 1 fail. The failure, tests/Unit/RemotePushAccountIsolation.test.ts, comes from production and needs worker_threads.locks, which the local Node 22 doesn't have.
  • composer test:lint, composer test:types and composer test:type-coverage: pass.
  • vendor/bin/pest --parallel --ci --coverage --exactly=100.0: pass, 100.0% coverage. No PHP files changed.

Independent review

  • Reviewer: an independent read-only agent review of the CSS rewrite, 6913c8b4, against production.
  • Verdict: PASS.
  • What it confirmed:
    • The diff touches only the two files above.
    • Nothing from the old hook is left.
    • The highlight runs on page open, for polled rows and for groups that get a new event, and doesn't replay for rows already on the page.
    • It doesn't fight the hover background, uses the same theme tokens in dark mode, and causes no layout shift.
  • Non-blocking notes:
    • The animation starts when a row mounts, so new rows below the fold may have faded before you scroll to them.
    • Switching the filter tab highlights the new rows again.

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No new recording yet. The CSS rewrite hasn't been checked in a browser.

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Walkthrough

A shared hook and helper manage fresh-row highlighting for commits and notification groups. The notification feed tracks new groups and passes their IDs to the shared lifecycle. CSS transitions and unit tests cover the updated behavior.

Changes: Fresh-row highlighting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared fresh-row lifecycle
resources/js/hooks/use-fresh-rows.ts, resources/js/lib/fresh-rows.ts, resources/css/app.css, tests/Unit/FreshRows.test.ts
The hook delegates row selection and fade timing to a shared helper. The helper tracks visibility and interaction events, then removes the fresh marker after settling. CSS applies transition styling to fresh commits and notification groups. Unit tests cover row selection, timing, and cleanup.
Log commit integration
resources/js/pages/log/show.tsx
The log page uses the shared hook instead of its inline fresh-commit effect.
Notification group integration
resources/js/pages/notification/index.tsx
The notification feed records new group IDs, passes them to the shared hook, and wraps the feed content in a ref-bearing element.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant NotificationFeed
  participant useFreshRows
  participant lightFreshRows
  participant IntersectionObserver
  NotificationFeed->>useFreshRows: pass feed ref, group key, fresh IDs, and data
  useFreshRows->>lightFreshRows: select and mark matching rows
  lightFreshRows->>IntersectionObserver: observe matching rows
  IntersectionObserver->>lightFreshRows: report row visibility
  lightFreshRows->>NotificationFeed: update row freshness after settling
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Possibly related PRs

  • dev-null-sh/dev-null.sh#680: Changes notification-group data, including group_id and event_count, which the fresh-highlighting behavior uses.
  • dev-null-sh/dev-null.sh#1172: Changes existing fresh-commit behavior that this PR moves into a shared lifecycle and extends to notification groups.

Suggested reviewers: mnapoli, xheaven

Merge Risk: Low · up to f344c

Some notification highlights may fade too early, persist too long, or fail to reappear. The issues are limited to highlighting and can be addressed with owner awareness.

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Hey man, this is a good idea, but you can simply highlight the new stuff by having a class that appears for you know three seconds or whatever, and then just fade it in. You don't need like a full JavaScript code just for this

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@nunomaduro Thanks, good call. I've reworked it as you suggested: it's now a single animate-fresh-highlight CSS class that holds the highlight for about three seconds and then fades, with no JavaScript (6913c8b, +19/-1 across app.css and the notifications page). I can't reopen the PR myself. Could you reopen it if this looks right?

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