feat(messages): Improve messaging UI with enhanced layout and dark mode support

[codeunia-dev]

This pull request introduces significant UI and UX improvements to the Messaging Interface within the Codeunia Student Portal.
The focus is on enhancing readability, layout consistency, and visual comfort — especially in dark mode.

Key Enhancements

• 🌓 Dark Mode Optimization: Improved color contrast, message bubbles, and background consistency for better visual comfort.
• 💬 Refined Layout: Enhanced scrolling behavior and spacing for smoother conversation flow.
• 📱 Responsive Design: Adjusted message components for a consistent look across all devices.
• ⚡ UI Polish: Tweaked typography, padding, and alignment for a cleaner, modern messaging experience.

Authored by: @akshay0611

Summary by CodeRabbit

Release Notes

• Style
  • Applied a comprehensive dark theme to the Messages interface with updated colors, dark backgrounds, and refined borders throughout.
  • Enhanced visual hierarchy and contrast for improved text visibility and element distinction.
  • Refined message bubble styling, input fields, and interactive elements with consistent dark theme aesthetics.

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Project	Deployment	Preview	Comments	Updated (UTC)
codeunia	Ready	Preview	Comment	Nov 6, 2025 11:47am

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Walkthrough

This pull request applies a comprehensive dark theme redesign to the Messages page and its associated components. All visual styling is updated to use dark backgrounds, zinc color tokens, and gradient accents while preserving all functional behavior, data loading, and interaction logic.

Changes

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Summary

Dark theme styling for messages interface app/protected/messages/page.tsx, components/messages/ConversationList.tsx, components/messages/ConversationView.tsx, components/messages/MessageBubble.tsx, components/messages/MessageInput.tsx, components/messages/TypingIndicator.tsx

Applied consistent dark theme across all messaging components: black backgrounds, zinc borders and text colors (zinc-300 through zinc-800), gradient buttons and badges (blue-purple), white text for primary content, and zinc-400/500 for secondary text. Added scroll prevention on Messages page mount. Updated MessageBubble shadows, empty state styling, and input form appearance. Changed typing indicator dots to gradient colors.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 3 (Moderate) | ⏱️ ~20 minutes

• Files to focus on: Verify consistent color token usage across all six modified components to ensure the dark theme is applied uniformly
• Cross-component consistency: Check that similar UI elements (buttons, badges, inputs) use matching gradient and color styling across different components
• Functional preservation: Confirm that styling-only changes did not inadvertently introduce any behavioral modifications to event handling or data rendering

Possibly related PRs

• PR #264: Updates the same messaging UI components with scroll-lock functionality and dark theme styling across the Messages page and related message components

Poem

🌙 A dark and dreamy messaging space takes flight,
With zinc-trimmed borders glowing in the night,
Gradient buttons dance in purple-blue delight,
While shadows frame each bubble, soft and right—
No logic changed, just beauty burning bright! ✨

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• Create PR with unit tests
• Post copyable unit tests in a comment
• Commit unit tests in branch ui/messaging

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📥 Commits

Reviewing files that changed from the base of the PR and between 2a7bf22 and 20edf17.

📒 Files selected for processing (6)

• app/protected/messages/page.tsx (5 hunks)
• components/messages/ConversationList.tsx (3 hunks)
• components/messages/ConversationView.tsx (3 hunks)
• components/messages/MessageBubble.tsx (2 hunks)
• components/messages/MessageInput.tsx (3 hunks)
• components/messages/TypingIndicator.tsx (1 hunks)

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