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index.html was a meta-refresh redirect to the GitHub repo. This replaces it with a single-page site built from the content already on cedarjs.com. Plain HTML and CSS, no build step, so it deploys exactly as the current file does.

Hero

The version card is a working docs version switcher. The list and labels come from docs/versions.json and docusaurus.config.ts in cedarjs/cedar, so they match the real site. It opens upward because the card is anchored to the bottom of the hero, and the arrow is a stair-stepped triangle drawn on a 7x4 grid to sit with Silkscreen.

Version switcher

Trust bar and The Cedar Edge share one band. Two separate bands each carried 7rem of vertical padding, which left a large dead gap between them.

Trust bar and The Cedar Edge

The Cedar Way, with the CLI output alongside posts.service.ts and posts.sdl.ts.

The Cedar Way

Closing CTA and footer.

CTA and footer

On mobile the hero lands in exactly one screen.

Mobile hero

Notes

  • Assets are local (assets/). The hero video was re-encoded from 14MB to 1.4MB at the same 1080p; it is a muted background loop, so the original 11.6 Mbps was far more than it needed. A poster frame covers first paint.
  • Uses the current green cedar logo (the org avatar, the same one this org's README uses), with brand colours sampled from it.
  • The hero is one locked screen at lg+ but switches to min-height and scrolls below that, so nothing is clipped on short phones.
  • Keyboard and a11y: the mobile drawer is inert while closed with focus moved in on open and returned on close, and the version menu behaves the same way. The copy buttons only report success when the copy actually succeeded.
  • All links point at real destinations: docs, tutorial, GitHub, sponsors, Discord, the RedwoodJS migration guide.
  • .gitignore added for local tooling output.

Two upstream things I noticed

  • docs/static/img/logo.svg in cedarjs/cedar is still the older rust-coloured mark, while the green cedar tree looks like the current logo.
  • The TwoDots sponsor logo on the homepage points at github.com/user-attachments/assets/a98ae112-..., which resolves to a generic placeholder avatar rather than their mark. Looks like an upload that did not take. It is included here as-is to match the live site.

Open question

cedarjs.com is served by Netlify from the Docusaurus app in cedarjs/cedar/docs/, so this repo is not currently in the serving path and merging this alone will not change the live homepage. Either this repo becomes the deployment source, or the page gets ported into cedarjs/cedar. I opened cedarjs/cedar#2443 to ask which is preferred and am happy to do the Docusaurus conversion.

index.html was a meta-refresh redirect to the GitHub repo. It is now a
single-page site built from the content on cedarjs.com: a full-bleed video
hero, The Cedar Edge, the sponsor trust bar, The Cedar Way generator walk
through, a closing install CTA, and a footer.

Plain HTML and CSS with no build step, so it still deploys as-is.

- Assets are local (assets/). The hero video was re-encoded from 14MB to
  1.4MB at the same 1080p; a poster frame covers first paint.
- Uses the current green cedar logo, with brand colours sampled from it.
- The hero is a locked single screen at lg+, but grows and scrolls below
  that so nothing is clipped on short phones.
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  • New Features

    • Replaced the redirect page with a complete CedarJS marketing homepage.
    • Added responsive navigation, mobile menu support, hero video, feature highlights, sponsor listings, generator examples, calls to action, and footer navigation.
    • Added installation command copy buttons with visual feedback.
    • Added SEO and social sharing metadata, custom fonts, and favicon support.
  • Style

    • Introduced a responsive Cedar-branded design optimized for mobile, tablet, and desktop screens.

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The redirect page is replaced with CedarJS metadata, hero content, responsive navigation, mobile drawer styles, and menu and clipboard interactions.
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index.html, styles.css
Framework positioning, sponsor sections, generator examples, calls to action, footer content, responsive layouts, and code panels are added.

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In `@index.html`:
- Around line 138-180: Make the drawer excluded from keyboard navigation while
closed by adding an inert/accessibility state to the drawer element and updating
it in setMenu whenever the menu opens or closes. Implement focus management so
opening moves focus into the drawer and closing returns focus to the menu
trigger, covering both the primary drawer and the corresponding alternate
markup.
- Around line 559-573: Update the navigator.clipboard write flow to use the
textarea fallback when writeText rejects instead of calling done directly.
Ensure done() is called only after document.execCommand('copy') reports success,
while preserving the existing fallback behavior for unavailable clipboard APIs.
- Around line 42-45: Connect the homepage change to the active
Netlify/Docusaurus deployment source rather than leaving it only in the
standalone index.html. Update the deployed Docusaurus source or configure this
page as the active Netlify site, ensuring the production homepage serves the
revised content before release.

In `@styles.css`:
- Line 16: Update the font-family declarations for Geist and Silkscreen to
remove their quotes, while preserving quotes around Geist Mono.
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Comment thread index.html
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<body>
<p>
If you are not redirected automatically, follow this
<a href="https://github.com/cedarjs/cedar"
>link to https://github.com/cedarjs/cedar</a
>.
</p>
<!-- ============================= hero ============================= -->
<section class="hero" id="hero">
<video

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echo "Deployment domain:"
cat CNAME

echo
echo "Docusaurus and deployment configuration:"
fd -HI -t f -g 'docusaurus.config.*' -g 'package.json' -g '*.yml' -g '*.yaml' . | sort
rg -n -C 3 --hidden 'cedarjs\.com|docusaurus|github-pages|pages|deploy' .github CNAME 2>/dev/null || true

Repository: cedarjs/cedarjs.com

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echo
echo "Deployment-related files and references:"
git ls-files | rg '(^|/)(package\.json|docusaurus\.config\..*|CNAME|.*\.(yml|yaml|json))$|github|deploy|pages' || true
rg -n -C 4 --hidden -g '!node_modules' -g '!dist' -g '!build' \
  'cedarjs\.com|docusaurus|github-pages|pages|deploy|workflow|source' . || true

Repository: cedarjs/cedarjs.com

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echo "Relevant index.html structure:"
wc -l index.html
sed -n '1,80p' index.html
sed -n '120,195p' index.html
sed -n '500,575p' index.html

Repository: cedarjs/cedarjs.com

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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

api='https://api.github.com/repos/cedarjs/cedarjs.com'

echo "Repository metadata:"
curl -fsSL "$api" | jq '{default_branch, html_url, homepage, has_pages, pages_url}'

echo
echo "GitHub Pages metadata:"
curl -sS -D - "$api/pages" -o /tmp/cedarjs-pages.json | sed -n '1,12p'
cat /tmp/cedarjs-pages.json | jq 'if type == "object" then {url, status, source, cname, https_enforced} else . end' 2>/dev/null || cat /tmp/cedarjs-pages.json

echo
echo "Workflow files:"
curl -fsSL "$api/contents/.github/workflows?ref=main" | jq -r 'if type == "array" then .[] | .path else .message end'

Repository: cedarjs/cedarjs.com

Length of output: 229


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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

echo "Live cedarjs.com response:"
curl -L --max-time 20 -sS -D /tmp/cedarjs-headers.txt https://cedarjs.com/ -o /tmp/cedarjs-home.html
sed -n '1,24p' /tmp/cedarjs-headers.txt
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
from html.parser import HTMLParser

class Titles(HTMLParser):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.in_title = False
        self.parts = []
    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
        self.in_title = tag.lower() == "title"
    def handle_endtag(self, tag):
        if tag.lower() == "title":
            self.in_title = False
    def handle_data(self, data):
        if self.in_title:
            self.parts.append(data)

p = Titles()
p.feed(Path("/tmp/cedarjs-home.html").read_text(errors="replace"))
print("title:", "".join(p.parts).strip())
text = Path("/tmp/cedarjs-home.html").read_text(errors="replace")
for needle in ("Docusaurus", "CedarJS", "Production-ready full-stack framework"):
    print(f"{needle!r}:", needle in text)
print("first_bytes:", text[:300].replace("\n", " "))
PY

echo
echo "Local Git refs and tree:"
git branch -a
git remote -v
git ls-tree --name-only HEAD

Repository: cedarjs/cedarjs.com

Length of output: 1430


Connect this page to the active deployment source.

cedarjs.com currently serves a Docusaurus site through Netlify. This repository contains only a standalone index.html and no Docusaurus or Netlify deployment configuration. This change will not update the production homepage. Connect this page to the active Netlify site or update the Docusaurus source before release.

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@index.html` around lines 42 - 45, Connect the homepage change to the active
Netlify/Docusaurus deployment source rather than leaving it only in the
standalone index.html. Update the deployed Docusaurus source or configure this
page as the active Netlify site, ensuring the production homepage serves the
revised content before release.

Comment thread index.html Outdated
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Addresses review feedback on the landing page:

- The closed drawer was translated off screen but stayed in the tab order,
  so keyboard users could focus invisible links. It is now `inert` while
  closed and `visibility: hidden` until the slide-out finishes. Focus moves
  to the first link on open and returns to the toggle on close.
- The copy button passed `done` as both handlers of `writeText()`, so a
  rejected copy still reported "Copied". Rejection now falls through to the
  textarea path, which only reports success when `execCommand` returns true.
- Dropped the unneeded quotes around the single-word Geist and Silkscreen
  family names. "Geist Mono" keeps its quotes since it contains a space.
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Thanks for the review. Pushed 2f75efe with three of the four addressed.

Closed drawer stayed in the tab order — real bug, fixed. The drawer is now inert while closed, plus visibility: hidden that flips only after the 500ms slide finishes, so the animation is unaffected. setMenu moves focus to the first link on open and hands it back to the toggle button before going inert, so focus is never stranded on an unfocusable node. Verified: with the drawer closed, all 6 links are unfocusable; on open, focus lands on "Documentation"; on Escape, focus returns to the toggle.

Copy button reported success on rejection — real bug, fixed. writeText() was passing done as both handlers. Rejection now falls through to the textarea fallback, which only calls done() when execCommand('copy') returns true, and the execCommand call is wrapped in try/catch. Verified by stubbing writeText to reject and execCommand to return false: the button stays on "Copy" instead of flipping to "Copied".

Font quoting — applied. Geist and Silkscreen are single tokens and don't need quotes; 'Geist Mono' keeps them because it contains a space. Confirmed all three still resolve in the computed styles.

"Connect this page to the active deployment source" — correct, and it's the open question already called out at the bottom of the PR description. cedarjs.com is served by Netlify from the Docusaurus app in cedarjs/cedar/docs/; this repo isn't in the serving path, so merging this alone won't change the live homepage. That's a maintainer decision rather than something to fix in this diff, so I've left it: either this repo becomes the deployment source, or the page gets ported into cedarjs/cedar. I've opened cedarjs/cedar#2443 to ask which they'd prefer, and I'm happy to do the Docusaurus conversion if that's the answer.

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I'll load this up in my browser tomorrow to check it out. Thanks for proposing this 🙏 Looks great from the screenshots in the linked issue!

- Headline is now "The Framework for the AI Era.", with a desktop-only
  break so mobile still wraps naturally. Meta and OG descriptions follow.
- Merged the trust bar into The Cedar Edge band instead of giving each its
  own 7rem-padded section, which left a large dead gap between them. The
  trust bar loses its frame so the sponsor cards align with the tiles.
- Sponsors are shown as logos on light chips, using the same approach as
  the docs site: only the dark and transparent marks get a backing.
- The version card gained a docs version switcher, sourced from
  docs/versions.json and docusaurus.config.ts so the labels match. It opens
  upward since the card is anchored to the bottom of the hero, and is
  `inert` while closed so its links stay out of the tab order. The arrow is
  a stair-stepped triangle drawn on a 7x4 grid to sit with Silkscreen.
- Dropped the hero's generator terminal card; that output still appears in
  The Cedar Way section.
- Install capsule is rounded rather than a pill, and the nav CTA is white.
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Superseded by #2, which is the same branch with the finished design and refreshed screenshots. Closing this so review happens in one place.

The review feedback here was addressed in 2f75efe (drawer focus trap, copy-failure reporting, font quoting) and carried over.

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Superseded by #2

Thanks for the heads-up :)

As soon as GitHub comes fully online for me again I'll take a look

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