feat: implement dark mode with complete semantic color system

[jezweb]

Summary

Implements dark mode with a cycling theme toggle and fixes all hard-coded Tailwind colors to use shadcn/ui semantic color system.

Changes

New Features

• Dark mode toggle: Cycling button that switches Light → Dark → System
• Three theme modes: Light, Dark, and System (follows OS preference)
• Persistent: Theme choice saved to localStorage
• Hydration-safe: Proper mounting check prevents SSR mismatch

New Components

• theme-provider.tsx: Wrapper around next-themes with localStorage
• mode-toggle.tsx: Cycling button with sun ☀️, moon 🌙, monitor 🖥️ icons

Complete Color Audit (54 violations fixed across 7 files)

dashboard.page.tsx (9 fixes)

• text-gray-900 → default (uses text-foreground)
• text-gray-600 → text-muted-foreground
• Feature icons: bg-blue/green/purple-100 → bg-primary/10
• Feature icons: text-blue/green/purple-600 → text-primary

todo-card.tsx (6 fixes)

• Completed text: text-gray-500/400/600 → text-muted-foreground (with opacity)
• Image badge: text-blue-600 → text-primary
• Overdue dates: text-red-600 → text-destructive
• Due dates: text-gray-500 → text-muted-foreground

todo-list.page.tsx (4 fixes)

• Subtitle: text-gray-600 → text-muted-foreground
• Empty state: All text-gray-* → text-muted-foreground (with opacity)

delete-todo.tsx (2 fixes)

• Delete button: text-red-600 → text-destructive
• Delete action: bg-red-600 → bg-destructive

todo-form.tsx (4 fixes)

• Upload border: border-gray-300 → border-border
• Upload icon: text-gray-400 → text-muted-foreground
• Upload link: text-blue-600 → text-primary
• Help text: text-gray-500 → text-muted-foreground

edit-todo.page.tsx (1 fix)

• Subtitle: text-gray-600 → text-muted-foreground

new-todo.page.tsx (1 fix)

• Subtitle: text-gray-600 → text-muted-foreground

Layout Updates

• layout.tsx: Wrap with ThemeProvider, add suppressHydrationWarning, use bg-background
• navigation.tsx: Add ModeToggle button, use bg-card

Package Changes

• Add next-themes@0.4.6 dependency

Exceptions (Intentionally Kept)

✅ Priority/status badges in todo-card.tsx - Semantic data visualization colors (green=low, yellow=medium, red=urgent, etc.)
✅ Destructive button text-white - Proper contrast pairing with bg-destructive

Benefits

✨ Theme-aware: All colors adapt automatically to light/dark/system
✨ Accessible: Proper contrast in all themes
✨ Maintainable: Change entire theme by editing CSS variables
✨ Professional: Follows shadcn/ui and Tailwind v4 best practices
✨ No flash: Hydration-safe implementation prevents theme flicker

User Experience

Before: No dark mode, hard-coded light colors only
After:

1. Click theme toggle in navigation (moon/sun/monitor icon)
2. Cycle through Light → Dark → System modes
3. Preference persists across sessions
4. All UI elements adapt automatically

Testing

• ✅ Light mode works (default)
• ✅ Dark mode works (all text readable, proper contrast)
• ✅ System mode follows OS preference
• ✅ Theme persists on page refresh
• ✅ No hydration errors
• ✅ Cycling button shows correct icon for each mode

Implements essential UX feature from improvement audit. Addresses the need for modern dark mode support with complete semantic color consistency.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added theme toggle functionality with light, dark, and system mode options in the navigation.

• Style

  • Updated color scheme throughout the application using new design tokens for improved visual consistency.

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Walkthrough

The changes implement a theme system using next-themes, introducing ThemeProvider wrapper and ModeToggle components. All hardcoded color classes across the application are replaced with design tokens to support dynamic theming capabilities.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Summary
Theme Infrastructure package.json, src/app/layout.tsx, src/components/theme-provider.tsx	Added next-themes dependency. Updated root layout to wrap content with ThemeProvider, added suppressHydrationWarning to html element, changed body background from bg-gray-50 to bg-background, and moved Toaster inside ThemeProvider context. Created new ThemeProvider wrapper component for next-themes provider.
Theme UI Components src/components/mode-toggle.tsx, src/components/navigation.tsx	Created ModeToggle client component with theme cycle functionality (light → dark → system), hydration-safe rendering, and accessibility labels. Updated navigation to include ModeToggle alongside LogoutButton in right-aligned actions group and changed nav container styling from bg-white to bg-card.
Styling Token Updates - Pages & Dashboard src/modules/dashboard/dashboard.page.tsx, src/modules/todos/edit-todo.page.tsx, src/modules/todos/new-todo.page.tsx, src/modules/todos/todo-list.page.tsx	Replaced hardcoded gray color classes with design tokens: text-gray-\* converted to text-muted-foreground with opacity modifiers, removed gray-specific text colors from headings, updated feature icon backgrounds to bg-primary/10 and icon colors to text-primary.
Styling Token Updates - Todo Components src/modules/todos/components/delete-todo.tsx, src/modules/todos/components/todo-card.tsx, src/modules/todos/components/todo-form.tsx	Updated color classes across form inputs, badges, and action elements: gray variants to text-muted-foreground, red variants to text-destructive/bg-destructive, blue variants to text-primary, and gray borders to border-border. No logic changes.

Sequence Diagram

sequenceDiagram
    participant User
    participant App as Root Layout
    participant TP as ThemeProvider
    participant MT as ModeToggle
    participant NTh as next-themes
    
    User->>App: Load application
    App->>TP: Wrap children with ThemeProvider
    TP->>NTh: Initialize with attribute="class", defaultTheme="system"
    NTh-->>TP: Theme state ready
    TP-->>App: Render children
    App-->>User: Display app with current theme
    
    User->>MT: Click theme toggle button
    MT->>MT: Cycle theme (light→dark→system)
    MT->>NTh: Update theme via next-themes
    NTh->>NTh: Apply class to html element
    NTh-->>MT: Theme updated
    MT-->>User: UI reflects new theme

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Estimated code review effort

🎯 3 (Moderate) | ⏱️ ~25 minutes

• ModeToggle component: Verify hydration-safe implementation with loading state and proper theme cycle logic
• ThemeProvider integration in layout.tsx: Check suppressHydrationWarning placement and proper wrapping of Toaster component
• Systematic styling changes: While repetitive, verify consistent token naming across all replaced classes (muted-foreground, destructive, primary, border-border)
• Navigation restructuring: Ensure ModeToggle and LogoutButton layout doesn't introduce spacing or accessibility issues

Poem

🐰 Behold, the rabbit's theme refactor dance,
With tokens bright, we paint a second chance,
Light and dark now waltz as one,
No gray remains—the design has won! ✨

Pre-merge checks and finishing touches

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✅ Passed checks (2 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
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Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately and concisely summarizes the main change: implementing dark mode with a semantic color system, which aligns with the comprehensive theme infrastructure, component additions, and color audit across the codebase.

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• package.json (1 hunks)
• src/app/layout.tsx (2 hunks)
• src/components/mode-toggle.tsx (1 hunks)
• src/components/navigation.tsx (2 hunks)
• src/components/theme-provider.tsx (1 hunks)
• src/modules/dashboard/dashboard.page.tsx (2 hunks)
• src/modules/todos/components/delete-todo.tsx (2 hunks)
• src/modules/todos/components/todo-card.tsx (3 hunks)
• src/modules/todos/components/todo-form.tsx (2 hunks)
• src/modules/todos/edit-todo.page.tsx (1 hunks)
• src/modules/todos/new-todo.page.tsx (1 hunks)
• src/modules/todos/todo-list.page.tsx (2 hunks)

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🧬 Code graph analysis (3)

src/modules/todos/new-todo.page.tsx (2)

src/components/ui/card.tsx (1)

• CardDescription (41-49)

src/components/ui/dialog.tsx (1)

• DialogDescription (122-133)

src/components/navigation.tsx (2)

src/components/mode-toggle.tsx (1)

• ModeToggle (8-44)

src/modules/auth/components/logout-button.tsx (1)

• LogoutButton (9-31)

src/app/layout.tsx (1)

src/components/theme-provider.tsx (1)

• ThemeProvider (6-8)

🔇 Additional comments (14)

src/modules/todos/new-todo.page.tsx (1)

23-23: LGTM! Semantic color token applied correctly.

The migration from text-gray-600 to text-muted-foreground aligns with the theme system and ensures this description text adapts properly across light and dark modes.

src/modules/todos/components/delete-todo.tsx (1)

53-53: LGTM! Destructive semantic tokens applied consistently.

Both the trigger button and delete action button now use semantic text-destructive and bg-destructive tokens, ensuring proper theme adaptation while maintaining the appropriate visual emphasis for destructive actions.

Also applies to: 71-71

src/modules/todos/components/todo-form.tsx (1)

446-463: LGTM! Image upload section now fully theme-aware.

All color tokens in the image upload UI have been migrated to semantic equivalents:

• border-border for theme-aware borders
• text-muted-foreground for icons and helper text
• text-primary for the interactive upload label

This ensures consistent theming throughout the form.

src/modules/todos/components/todo-card.tsx (1)

71-77: LGTM! Todo card semantics preserved with theme tokens.

All color updates maintain semantic meaning while enabling theme adaptation:

• Completed/muted content uses text-muted-foreground variants
• Image badge uses text-primary for accent
• Overdue items correctly use text-destructive to draw attention
• Priority/status badges appropriately retain their data visualization colors (lines 29-41)

Also applies to: 123-137

src/modules/dashboard/dashboard.page.tsx (1)

16-19: LGTM! Dashboard now uses unified theme tokens.

The dashboard successfully migrates to semantic color tokens:

• Headings and paragraphs use text-muted-foreground for secondary text
• Feature icons now use a unified bg-primary/10 and text-primary scheme (previously varied blue/green/purple)

The unified color approach creates visual consistency across features while enabling full theme adaptation.

Also applies to: 68-98

src/modules/todos/edit-todo.page.tsx (1)

42-42: LGTM! Semantic token applied correctly.

The subtitle now uses text-muted-foreground, ensuring theme consistency across the edit page.

src/modules/todos/todo-list.page.tsx (1)

16-16: LGTM! Todo list page now fully theme-aware.

All text colors have been migrated to semantic tokens with appropriate opacity variants:

• Subtitle uses text-muted-foreground
• Empty state uses text-muted-foreground with /40 and /80 variants to maintain visual hierarchy

This ensures the todo list and empty state adapt correctly across themes.

Also applies to: 30-34

package.json (1)

51-51: Test next-themes compatibility with Next.js 15 app-router before deploying.

Version 0.4.6 is current, and React 19.1.0 satisfies the peerDependency requirements. No security advisories were found. However, next-themes 0.4.6 is not explicitly updated for Next.js 15/React 19 and community reports document hydration/app-router issues. Peer-dependency warnings may also appear during installation.

Verify that ThemeProvider does not cause hydration errors in your Next.js 15 app-router. If issues arise, wrap ThemeProvider in a client-only component to isolate it from server-side rendering.

src/components/theme-provider.tsx (1)

1-8: LGTM! Clean wrapper implementation.

The wrapper provides a clean abstraction over next-themes and follows Next.js patterns for client-side provider components. The implementation correctly forwards all props and maintains flexibility for future enhancements.

src/components/navigation.tsx (1)

5-5: LGTM! Theme-aware navigation updates.

The changes correctly integrate the theme toggle and replace hardcoded colors with semantic tokens:

• bg-card adapts to the current theme
• Removing text-gray-900 allows theme-based foreground colors
• The actions group properly displays ModeToggle alongside LogoutButton

Also applies to: 9-9, 15-15, 34-37

src/app/layout.tsx (1)

31-31: LGTM! Proper ThemeProvider configuration.

The implementation correctly follows next-themes best practices:

• suppressHydrationWarning on <html> prevents mismatches from client-side theme injection
• attribute="class" aligns with Tailwind's class-based dark mode strategy
• defaultTheme="system" respects user preferences
• disableTransitionOnChange avoids jarring visual transitions
• Moving Toaster inside ThemeProvider ensures toast notifications are theme-aware

Also applies to: 33-33, 35-43

src/components/mode-toggle.tsx (3)

8-24: LGTM! Correct hydration-safe implementation.

The component properly handles SSR/client hydration:

• The mounted state pattern prevents hydration mismatches
• Returning a disabled placeholder button during SSR avoids layout shifts
• The useEffect ensures the actual theme controls only render client-side

This follows the recommended next-themes pattern for avoiding hydration errors.

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26-34: LGTM! Clean theme cycling logic.

The cycling sequence (light → dark → system → light) is logical and covers all theme states. The implementation is straightforward and easy to understand.

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36-43: LGTM! Accessible theme toggle UI.

The implementation includes proper accessibility features:

• Screen reader text describes the current state
• title attribute provides visual tooltip
• Conditional icon rendering clearly indicates the active theme

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