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📱 Overview

Implemented comprehensive mobile responsiveness across the application, including home page, explorer page, and a mobile-friendly sidebar navigation system. This update ensures a seamless user experience across all device sizes from mobile (320px) to desktop (2XL+).

📸 Visual Changes

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Before:

  • Fixed margins wasted space on mobile
  • Image overlapped text on small screens
  • No way to access navigation on mobile
  • Text too large for mobile readability
  • Explorer page not mobile-friendly

After:

  • Full-width layout on all devices
  • Image positioned properly (below text on mobile, background on desktop)
  • Hamburger menu with smooth sidebar for mobile navigation
  • Text sizes optimized for each screen size
  • Explorer page fully responsive with mobile-optimized cards
  • Professional mobile-first experience

🔗 Related Issue

Closes #49

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added mobile navigation menu with collapsible sidebar for improved mobile browsing.
  • UI/Design

    • Redesigned home page with enhanced Hero section layout and responsive image placement.
    • Improved responsive spacing and typography across all pages.
    • Refined Explorer page pagination and filter controls for better mobile usability.
    • Enhanced card styling and grid layouts with responsive adjustments.
    • Optimized content container width for improved visual presentation.

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Walkthrough

This PR comprehensively restructures the UI for improved responsive design across the main pages and navigation. Changes include reworking the explorer page layout with adjusted typography, grid structures, and pagination controls; simplifying the global content container; redesigning the homepage hero and revolution sections with responsive image placement; and adding mobile navigation menu support with toggle functionality.

Changes

Cohort / File(s) Summary
Page Layout & Responsive Containers
app/layout.tsx
Simplified main content container from width-constrained with padding to full-width (w-full), reducing layout constraints.
Explorer Page Redesign
app/explorer/page.tsx
Reworked layout with responsive spacing, typography scaling (text-3xl/4xl/5xl), flexible flex/grid structures for header/search/filters, responsive pagination switching between horizontal and columnar modes, updated grid gaps and card styling with status-based overlays, adjusted empty states, and modified client-side filtering/pagination logic.
Homepage Sections
app/page.tsx
Redesigned hero section with horizontal padding and responsive image placement (right-aligned on large screens, below text on mobile), updated revolution section layout with two-column structure on larger viewports, rescaled typography, refined sync button styling, enhanced carousel container sizing, and adjusted loading/error/empty states with responsive heights.
Mobile Navigation
components/navigation.tsx
Introduced mobile navigation menu with state tracking, Menu/X icon toggle buttons, collapsible sidebar overlay, improved image path handling with leading slash support, and secondary ConnectButton for mobile.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 3 (Moderate) | ⏱️ ~20 minutes

  • app/explorer/page.tsx: Review pagination logic changes (horizontal-to-columnar layout switch) and filter/count computation modifications when filters are active.
  • app/page.tsx: Verify responsive image placement logic and hero/revolution section layout restructuring across breakpoints.
  • components/navigation.tsx: Examine mobile menu state management, toggle event handlers, and overlay interaction patterns.

Possibly related PRs

  • Fixed the layout issue #44: Directly modifies the same layout and navigation files with container class changes and header structure updates.
  • explorer count change #20: Also modifies app/explorer/page.tsx pagination and display logic; changes to ITEMS_PER_PAGE and pagination behaviors overlap.
  • Requested changes #41: Updates components/navigation.tsx with navigation item labels and active link logic in the same component.

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🐰 With paws I tap responsive grids,
Where mobile screens now dance and bend,
No more do layouts stretch too wide,
The menu hops from side to side—
Our burrow now fits every screen! 🌱

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed PR implements mobile responsiveness across pages and adds sidebar navigation, directly addressing the linked issue #49 about mobile layout adjustments.
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⚠️ Outside diff range comments (1)
components/navigation.tsx (1)

54-77: Fix incorrect active route highlighting for navigation buttons.

The pathname checks for "Organize a Hackathon" and "My Hackathons" buttons are swapped:

  • Line 58 checks pathname === "/myHackathons" but the button links to /createHackathon
  • Line 70 checks pathname === "/createHackathon" but the button links to /myHackathons

This causes the wrong button to be highlighted when navigating.

Apply this diff:

             <Link href="/createHackathon">
               <Button 
                 variant="ghost"
                 className={`${
-                  pathname === "/myHackathons" 
+                  pathname === "/createHackathon" 
                     ? "text-amber-800 bg-amber-50 font-semibold shadow-sm" 
                     : "text-gray-700 hover:text-amber-800 hover:bg-amber-50/80"
                 } transition-all duration-200 font-medium`}
               >
                 Organize a Hackathon
               </Button>
             </Link>
             <Link href="/myHackathons">
               <Button 
                 variant="ghost"
                 className={`${
-                  pathname === "/createHackathon" 
+                  pathname === "/myHackathons" 
                     ? "text-amber-800 bg-amber-50 font-semibold shadow-sm" 
                     : "text-gray-700 hover:text-amber-800 hover:bg-amber-50/80"
                 } transition-all duration-200 font-medium`}
               >
                 My Hackathons
               </Button>
             </Link>
🧹 Nitpick comments (1)
app/page.tsx (1)

214-296: LGTM: Responsive hero section with adaptive layout.

The hero section effectively transitions from mobile to desktop:

  • Full-width on mobile with stacked content
  • Two-column grid on large screens
  • Progressive typography scaling across 5 breakpoints
  • Appropriate image sizing for each viewport

The dual-image approach (one for mobile inline, one for desktop background) ensures optimal positioning but does mean the same image is included twice in the markup. Consider using a single image with responsive positioning via CSS in a future refactor.

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📥 Commits

Reviewing files that changed from the base of the PR and between f06d428 and 8806326.

📒 Files selected for processing (4)
  • app/explorer/page.tsx (12 hunks)
  • app/layout.tsx (1 hunks)
  • app/page.tsx (8 hunks)
  • components/navigation.tsx (3 hunks)
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🧬 Code graph analysis (2)
app/explorer/page.tsx (1)
hooks/useHackathons.ts (1)
  • getHackathonStatus (66-72)
app/page.tsx (3)
components/ui/button.tsx (1)
  • Button (56-56)
components/ui/card.tsx (1)
  • Card (79-79)
providers/web3-provider.js (1)
  • error (54-54)
🔇 Additional comments (15)
components/navigation.tsx (4)

12-15: LGTM: getImagePath helper improvement.

The updated logic correctly ensures a leading slash for GitHub Pages compatibility.


82-127: LGTM: Well-implemented mobile menu toggle and header.

The mobile menu toggle button and sidebar header are properly implemented with:

  • Accessibility labels
  • Proper icon switching (Menu ↔ X)
  • Click handlers for opening/closing
  • Responsive visibility (hidden on md+)

147-177: Fix incorrect active route highlighting in mobile navigation.

The same pathname check issue from the desktop navigation exists here:

  • Line 154 checks pathname === "/createHackathon" but the link is to /createHackathon ✓ (this one is correct)
  • Line 170 checks pathname === "/myHackathons" but the link is to /myHackathons ✓ (this one is correct)

Wait, let me recheck... Actually, looking more carefully:

  • Lines 147-161: Link to "/createHackathon", checks pathname === "/createHackathon" ✓ CORRECT
  • Lines 163-177: Link to "/myHackathons", checks pathname === "/myHackathons" ✓ CORRECT

The mobile navigation pathname checks are actually correct! Good work here.


104-187: LGTM: Mobile sidebar with overlay and navigation.

Excellent implementation with:

  • Semi-transparent overlay for backdrop
  • Click-outside to close behavior
  • Smooth transitions (transition-transform duration-300)
  • Navigation links that close the menu on click
  • ConnectButton positioned at the bottom
app/layout.tsx (1)

30-30: LGTM: Full-width layout for responsive design.

Changing from constrained layout (max-w-8xl mx-32 px-4...) to w-full allows individual pages to control their own responsive padding and width, which aligns with the responsive updates in the explorer and home pages.

app/explorer/page.tsx (6)

389-409: LGTM: Responsive loading state.

The loading state implements consistent responsive patterns:

  • Progressive padding across breakpoints
  • Responsive heading typography
  • Appropriately sized loader icon
  • Clear loading messages

411-461: LGTM: Responsive error state with helpful messaging.

The error state maintains consistency with:

  • Matching responsive padding and typography
  • Network status indicators
  • Clear error messages with retry action

464-532: LGTM: Responsive header with adaptive controls.

Excellent responsive layout that adapts from mobile to desktop:

  • Vertically stacked on mobile, horizontal on desktop
  • Full-width controls on mobile for easier touch targets
  • Consistent spacing and typography progression
  • Smart use of flexbox direction changes

535-729: LGTM: Responsive card grids with smooth breakpoint transitions.

The hackathon grids scale appropriately:

  • Single column on mobile for easy reading
  • 2 columns on small tablets
  • 3-4 columns on desktop for density
  • Consistent gap spacing and card styling

732-787: LGTM: Mobile-friendly pagination controls.

Pagination controls adapt effectively:

  • Vertical stacking on mobile for easier navigation
  • Full-width Previous/Next buttons on mobile
  • Minimum width on page number buttons prevents layout issues
  • Smooth transition to horizontal layout on larger screens

790-825: LGTM: Responsive empty states with clear CTAs.

Both empty state variations implement responsive patterns consistently:

  • Appropriately sized icons and typography
  • Full-width action buttons on mobile
  • Clear messaging with helpful context
  • Symmetric padding and spacing
app/page.tsx (4)

299-339: LGTM: Consistent responsive header pattern.

The revolution section header maintains consistency with the explorer page:

  • Adaptive flex direction
  • Full-width controls on mobile
  • Progressive typography scaling
  • Proper sync button placement

342-403: LGTM: Responsive carousel with progressive sizing.

The hackathon carousel scales appropriately:

  • Height adapts from 40vh on mobile to 50vh on desktop
  • Card width grows from 280px to 350px across breakpoints
  • Card spacing increases proportionally
  • Infinite scroll animation works consistently

406-410: LGTM: Responsive loading state.

Loading state maintains carousel height and uses appropriately sized spinner.


413-443: LGTM: Consistent state panels with matched heights.

Error and empty states maintain carousel container height, preventing layout shifts:

  • Consistent height across all states
  • Responsive padding and typography
  • Full-width buttons on mobile
  • Clear messaging and CTAs

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