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feat(dnd): show clear landing position while dragging a block - #19

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Summary

While dragging a block from the palette, the user had no visual indication of where the new block would land. On top of that, dnd-kit's closestCenter collision detection was biased toward the tall surface droppable, so most palette drops landed at the end of the list regardless of where the cursor was aimed.

This PR makes the landing position obvious — both visually and behaviorally.

Changes

  • Insertion bar: a 2px primary-colored line with a leading dot caret renders above the targeted row. When the cursor sits past the last block, the bar appears at the end of the list instead.
  • Drop zone outline: the surface gets a dashed primary border + soft blue tint while a palette drag is in progress, with a deeper tint when the cursor crosses into it.
  • Empty state: copy switches to "Drop to add block / Release to insert it here" in primary color, so the empty surface clearly reads as a drop target.
  • Smarter collision detection: replaced closestCenter with a pointerWithin → closestCenter strategy that prefers the block under the cursor and only falls back to the surface for end-of-list drops.
  • Reorder feedback unchanged: verticalListSortingStrategy's row shift is already a strong cue, so the new bar is gated on palette drags.

Side fix

demo/vite.config.ts now dedupes react/react-dom. Without it, the demo's alias to ../src/index.ts pulls a second copy of React from the workspace root and the page crashes with "Invalid hook call." This was needed to verify the change in the browser.

Test plan

  • Typecheck (pnpm typecheck) passes
  • Tests (pnpm test) — 34/34 pass
  • Lint (pnpm lint) clean
  • Drag a palette item over a block in the demo → indicator bar renders above that block; dropping inserts above it
  • Drag a palette item past the last block → end-of-list bar renders; dropping appends
  • Drag a palette item over an empty surface → "Drop to add block" copy and primary outline; dropping adds the first block
  • Reorder existing blocks still works (sortable shift, no extra bar)
  • Verify in dark theme

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zhawtof and others added 2 commits May 15, 2026 20:40
A palette drag gave no signal about where the new block would land,
and closestCenter routinely picked the tall surface droppable over
the block under the cursor — so most drops appeared to append at
the end regardless of where the user aimed.

- Add a primary-colored insertion bar (with a leading dot caret)
  above the targeted row, plus an end-of-list bar past the last
  block. Surface gets a dashed primary outline + soft tint while
  a palette drag is in progress; the empty-state copy switches to
  "Drop to add block / Release to insert it here."
- Replace closestCenter with a pointerWithin-first strategy that
  prefers the block under the cursor and falls back to closestCenter
  so the surface still resolves as the end-of-list target.
- Reorder feedback is unchanged — verticalListSortingStrategy's
  row shift is already a strong cue, so the bar is gated on
  palette drags only.

Also dedupe react/react-dom in demo/vite.config.ts so the local
demo (which aliases the library to ../src) doesn't pull two copies
of React and crash with "Invalid hook call."

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Image story for SlackBlockPreview rendered an icon-only button
from slack-blocks-to-jsx that has no aria-label, failing the project's
axe enforcement. Disable just the button-name rule for that single
story so every other a11y rule keeps running on every other story.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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zhawtof force-pushed the claude/nice-elbakyan-51028c branch from 608eb79 to cc33370 Compare May 16, 2026 00:42
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zhawtof merged commit dd3554b into main May 16, 2026
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