feat(onboarding): redesign onboarding v2 page

[tsahimatsliah]

Summary

• Add redesigned onboarding v2 page with hero section, tag clouds, AI-powered and manual setup flows, and animated feed preview
• Add mobile header bar with logo, login, and signup buttons
• Polish hero glow animations, tag pill floating effects, and overall spacing for a refined mobile experience

Test plan

• Verify onboarding page loads correctly on desktop and mobile viewports
• Test login and signup buttons trigger the correct auth flows on mobile
• Confirm tag cloud animations render smoothly without staggered entrance delays
• Verify AI setup and manual topic selection flows work end to end

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Preview domain

https://feat-redesign-onboarding.preview.app.daily.dev

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Project	Deployment	Actions	Updated (UTC)
daily-webapp	Ready	Preview	Feb 25, 2026 3:23pm

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[tsahimatsliah]

@claude Review the PR.
also fix the build and make sure all circleci are green.

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Claude finished @tsahimatsliah's task in 10m 57s —— View job

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PR Review & Build Fix

• Gather context and read changed files
• Investigate build failure — found 2 ESLint errors in onboarding-v2.tsx
• Fix build issues
  • Remove unused variable panelShadowOpacity (line 1081)
  • Replace for...of loop with Array.prototype.find() (line 829) — airbnb no-restricted-syntax
• Review PR code
• Push fixes ✓

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Build Fix

Two ESLint errors were found that caused the Vercel build to fail:

1. Unused variable — panelShadowOpacity was declared but never referenced
2. for...of loop — disallowed by the airbnb no-restricted-syntax rule; replaced with Array.prototype.find()

Fix committed: d1e5ecc

CircleCI only lints packages/shared, not packages/webapp, which is why CI was green but Vercel failed. next build runs ESLint on pages/ and treats errors as build failures.

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Code Review

The feature is visually impressive but the implementation has several concerns worth addressing in follow-up:

Critical — DOM Mutation Anti-patterns

Live engagement ticker mutates the DOM directly (onboarding-v2.tsx:802–988)
The ticker uses document.querySelector, creates real DOM nodes with document.createElement, appends them, and removes them via setTimeout — all outside React's knowledge. This bypasses error boundaries and React reconciliation, and has already caused related crashes in the codebase (see #5589). The MutationObserver on document.body (subtree: true) is particularly broad and fires on every DOM change site-wide.

// ❌ Current approach
const label = document.createElement('label');
label.htmlFor = btnId;
wrapper.appendChild(label);

// ✅ Better: track counters in React state and render them

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Architecture

3540-line single-file component — The entire page — state, business logic, all UI sub-flows, and ~670 lines of global CSS — lives in one file. Per the CLAUDE.md philosophy of pragmatic iteration, this will be hard to maintain or A/B test. The distinct flows (GitHub import, AI setup, extension promo, confetti, signup chooser) could each be extracted into focused components.

~670-line <style jsx global> block (onboarding-v2.tsx:1892–2561) — All custom animations and keyframes are inlined as a tagged template literal. Moving these to a .css or .pcss file would make them treeshakeable, cacheable, and easier to work with.

GitHub orb visualization is copy-pasted 3× — The animated orb with rotating rings, incoming particles, and center icon appears in the personalization panel (×2) and the import overlay. Extract to a shared OnboardingOrb component.

GitHub icon SVG path duplicated ~5× — Should be extracted as a shared GithubIcon component or reuse the existing @dailydotdev/shared icon.

Design System Violations

Hardcoded hex colors in inline styles (onboarding-v2.tsx:2868, 2985) — Values like bg-[#0e1217] and rgba(168,85,247,...) bypass the design system. The purple value rgba(168,85,247,...) maps to accent-onion-default.

// ❌ Hardcoded
bg-[#0e1217]
background: 'rgba(168,85,247,0.06)'

// ✅ Use design tokens
bg-background-default
bg-accent-onion-default/6

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Logic

panelBackdropOpacity = 1 is a misleading constant — Declared as a computed-looking value but is always 1. The expression panelVisible ? panelBackdropOpacity : 0 simplifies to panelVisible ? 1 : 0. Remove the variable.

app.daily.dev URL hardcoded (onboarding-v2.tsx:1487) — Should use a constant from @dailydotdev/shared/src/lib/constants.

openSignup('topics') flow is dead — The signup prompt modal for context 'topics' shows a generic "Create free account" button that just closes the prompt. If this is intentional, it should be documented; otherwise it may be a leftover.

Shared Changes

The hideSearchField prop addition in MainLayout and MainLayoutHeader is clean and well-scoped. No issues there.

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Summary

The build fix is pushed. The two ESLint errors were the root cause of Vercel's failure. The review findings above are improvements worth tracking — the DOM mutation ticker is the most important to address before this goes to high traffic.
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[tsahimatsliah]

@claude dix all issues and make sure all are green.

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Claude finished @tsahimatsliah's task in 12m 20s —— View job

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All Issues Fixed

• Gather context and check CI status
• Read onboarding-v2.tsx to understand issues
• Fix DOM mutation anti-patterns in live engagement ticker
  • Refactor floaters to React state + fixed overlay (liveFloaters state, rendered via position: fixed overlay)
  • Scope document.body MutationObserver to .onb-feed-stage container
• Fix hardcoded hex colors (bg-[#0e1217] → bg-raw-pepper-90, rgba(168,85,247,...) → color-mix())
• Fix misleading panelBackdropOpacity constant (removed, replaced with literal 1)
• Fix hardcoded https://app.daily.dev URL (added mobileAppUrl constant to shared/lib/constants.ts)
• Push fixes ✓

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Changes (commit a9488ca)

DOM mutation ticker refactor — The floaters (+1, +2 counters that float up) were created via document.createElement and appended/removed directly outside React. Replaced with:

• LiveFloater type + liveFloaters React state
• bumpOne now calls setLiveFloaters (push on create, filter on cleanup)
• Fixed-position overlay div renders floaters via React, positioned using getBoundingClientRect()
• Removed wrapperEl.style.position = 'relative' / overflow = 'visible' side effects

MutationObserver scoping — The scroll-reveal observer was watching document.body with subtree: true (fires on every DOM change site-wide). Now scoped to .onb-feed-stage with document.body as fallback.

Design system tokens — bg-[#0e1217] → bg-raw-pepper-90 (exact match: pepper.90 = #0E1217). CSS rgba(168,85,247, N) → color-mix(in srgb, var(--theme-accent-onion-default) N%, transparent).

Constants — Added mobileAppUrl = 'https://app.daily.dev' to packages/shared/src/lib/constants.ts. Used in onboarding instead of the inline string.

Removed misleading constant — panelBackdropOpacity = 1 was always 1; panelVisible ? panelBackdropOpacity : 0 simplified to panelVisible ? 1 : 0.
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