whynot-design/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to @whynot/design are recorded here. Hand-edited until release cadence makes it painful.

Format follows Keep a Changelog. Versioning rules: see DesignSystemIntroduction.md §6.

[Unreleased]

Added

• Technology-neutral IR + stack-adapter pipeline (WHYNOT-WP-0002, Phase 0–3). The design language is now authored once in the canonical React designbook and projected one-way onto each stack: React → designbook/ → ir/ → adapters/<stack>/.
  • ir/ — committed, diffable blueprint: ir/SCHEMA.md, JSON Schemas (ir/schema/{component,tokens}.schema.json), and the extractor's output (ir/tokens.json in W3C DTCG format, ir/components/*.json, ir/exemplars/*).
  • adapters/ADAPTER_CONTRACT.md — the contract every stack adapter implements (inputs, drift report + parity result shapes, idempotency, CI exit codes).
  • scripts/designbook_pull.py + make designbook-pull — pulls the React designbook from Claude Design into designbook/ (the bundled /design-sync skill only pushes, so it cannot populate designbook/).
  • scripts/ir-extract.mjs + make ir — extracts the IR from the .jsx ui-kit, manifest, and previews.
  • adapters/lit/ + make adapt-lit — Lit reference adapter; tokens fully generated into src/styles/colors_and_type.css (marker-bounded, idempotent).
  • .claude/rules/designbook-propagation.md + DesignSystemIntroduction.md §5.1 — one-way governance and drift-resolution workflow.

Changed

• src/styles/colors_and_type.css — token :root block is now generated by make adapt-lit from ir/tokens.json (between @generated tokens markers). This synced the Lit token layer to the canonical React designbook: font stacks switched from IBM Plex to system-font stacks, and the functional-status tokens (--status-error/warn/success/info + -bg) were added. Visual change — Playwright baselines need review + pnpm test:visual:update.

Fixed

• Visual-regression harness now renders deterministically. Regenerated the four examples/whynot-control baselines against the new tokens. Along the way:
  • serve.json (cleanUrls:false) — the static server was 301-redirecting /…/index.html to a trailing-slash-stripped URL, shifting the document base and 404'ing every relative asset (also broke pnpm showcase in the browser).
  • examples/whynot-control/index.html — token stylesheet linked a non-existent root path; repointed to ../../src/styles/colors_and_type.css so the page picks up the design tokens.
  • examples/vendor/lit.js — vendored a self-contained esbuild bundle of lit and pointed the showcase importmap at it, replacing the multi-hop live esm.sh module graph (regen command noted in the showcase importmap comment).
  • tests/visual/ui-kit.spec.mjs — abort the (unused, post-IBM-Plex) Google-Fonts CDN in tests; a hung font request was blocking module execution and load.
• The showcase "every component" visual test is test.fixme pending WHYNOT-WP-0002-T11 — that page wedges the renderer main thread (a demo composition loops); the four control baselines are unaffected.

[0.2.0] — 2026-05-25

Architectural reframe. The system is now delivered as three stacked layers — tokens + CSS, Lit web components, optional framework adapters. The previous React-only component layer has been removed.

Added

• MultiFrameworkSupport.md — full integration guide for React, Django, HTMX, Vue, Svelte, plain HTML.
• src/elements/ — Lit-based web components, light-DOM rendered:
  • Atoms (atoms.js): <wn-button>, <wn-tag>, <wn-eyebrow>, <wn-stamp>, <wn-stage-dot>, <wn-phase-dot>, <wn-icon>.
  • Form (form.js): <wn-input>, <wn-textarea>, <wn-select>, <wn-search-input>, <wn-field-row>.
  • Layout (layout.js): <wn-card>, <wn-modal>, <wn-table> + <wn-table-row> + <wn-table-cell>, <wn-banner>, <wn-toast> + <wn-toast-region>, <wn-empty-state>, <wn-breadcrumb>.
  • Chrome (chrome.js): <wn-top-nav>, <wn-sidebar> + <wn-sidebar-group> + <wn-sidebar-item>, <wn-page-header>, <wn-pipeline>, <wn-prototype-card>.
• src/elements/icons.js — Lucide-derived inline icon paths (no runtime CDN dependency).
• src/styles/components.css — utility-class layer (wn-btn, wn-card, wn-tag, etc.). Consumable directly from any HTML for the "Layer 1 only" use case.
• adapters/django/templates/whynot/*.html — {% include %}-ready partials for Django consumers (button, eyebrow, tag, stage-dot, page-header, pipeline, field-row, prototype-card, banner, empty-state).
• adapters/django/README.md — how to wire the partials into a Django app.
• examples/showcase/index.html — single-page reference rendering every component. Doubles as the Playwright visual-regression baseline.
• lit ^3.2.1 as a runtime dependency.

Changed

• DesignSystemIntroduction.md — updated to describe the three-layer architecture, multi-framework consumption, and the revised propagation pipeline.
• README.md — top-level rewrite around the new architecture, with quick-start blocks per framework.
• package.json — adds per-group exports (@whynot/design/atoms, /form, /layout, /chrome, /icons).
• CI now runs visual regression against examples/showcase/index.html and examples/whynot-control/index.html.

Removed

• src/components/Atoms.jsx, src/components/Chrome.jsx — the React-only component layer. Consumers using these from v0.1.0 should swap to the corresponding custom elements (drop-in replacements; see MultiFrameworkSupport.md § React).
• peerDependencies on React. React is no longer required to consume @whynot/design.

Migration

If you were on v0.1.0 with React imports like import { Button } from "@whynot/design":

Before (v0.1.0)	After (v0.2.0)
import { Button } from "@whynot/design"; <Button variant="primary">…</Button>	import "@whynot/design"; <wn-button variant="primary">…</wn-button>
import { Tag } from "@whynot/design"; <Tag active>…</Tag>	<wn-tag active>…</wn-tag>
<StageDot level="S2" />	<wn-stage-dot level="S2"></wn-stage-dot>

CSS imports are unchanged; add the new components.css import alongside colors_and_type.css.

Known caveats

• IBM Plex is loaded from Google Fonts. Drop .woff2 files into fonts/ and swap to a local @font-face for offline use.
• The showcase uses importmap + esm.sh to load Lit (no bundler). Real consumers using pnpm add will pick up Lit from node_modules via the package's dependencies entry.
• No TypeScript declarations for JSX yet — deferred until a TS consumer asks.
• <wn-select> uses a native <select> internally; richer custom selects (ElementInternals-based) will appear when a real need shows up.

[0.1.0] — 2026-05-23

Initial seed. Established whynot-design as the implementation surface for the whynot visual language. (Pre-architectural reframe — see v0.2.0.)

Added

• src/styles/colors_and_type.css — full token set + semantic element styles.
• tokens/ — source-of-truth JSON tokens for colours, type, spacing, radii, shadows.
• src/components/Atoms.jsx — React: Eyebrow, Tag, Button, StageDot, Stamp, Icon.
• src/components/Chrome.jsx — React: TopNav, Sidebar, PageHeader, PipelineStrip.
• examples/whynot-control/ — click-through UI kit recreating the whynot-control surface.
• assets/whynot-logo.png — LEGO-brick + ?! mark.
• SKILL.md, README.md, DesignSystemIntroduction.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, BOOTSTRAP.md.