fix(web): unify theme toggle animation and behavior

[maxktz]

Summary

• Remove the sliding theme reveal and its CSS.
• Route the theme button and D shortcut through the same toggle, switching between system and the opposite visible theme.
• Use the browser's page-wide view transition for both controls; register D with TanStack Hotkeys.

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Summary by cubic

Unifies the theme toggle between the theme button and the D hotkey, replacing the custom sliding reveal with the browser's page-wide view transition.

• Removes the custom theme-line-reveal animation and related CSS.
• Routes both controls through the same toggle, preserving reduced-motion behavior.
• Registers D with TanStack Hotkeys and disables next-themes' default hotkey.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added the D keyboard shortcut to toggle the theme. It is ignored while composing text, inside dialogs, or when typing in inputs.
• Changes
  • Theme changes use the browser’s view transition when available. When reduced motion is preferred or view transitions aren’t supported, the theme changes without a transition.
  • Removed the decorative line-reveal effect during theme transitions.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The provider now uses a custom D hotkey to toggle the theme. The transition hook uses a synchronous theme update callback when the browser view transition API is available. The previous theme reveal animation and related styles are removed.

Changes

Theme toggle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Transition behavior apps/web/src/components/use-theme-transition.ts, apps/web/src/styles/globals.css	The hook directly sets the theme when reduced motion is preferred or the transition API is unavailable. Otherwise, it starts a view transition with a synchronous theme update. The previous transition state and custom reveal styles are removed.
Hotkey integration apps/web/src/components/providers.tsx	The provider disables its built-in theme hotkey and renders a custom D hotkey. The custom handler ignores prevented or composing events, key code 229, events inside dialogs, and inputs. It prevents the default event before toggling the theme.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ThemeHotkey
  participant useThemeTransition
  participant BrowserViewTransition
  participant setTheme
  ThemeHotkey->>useThemeTransition: Call toggleTheme
  useThemeTransition->>BrowserViewTransition: Start transition with synchronous callback
  BrowserViewTransition->>setTheme: Flush theme update

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 452a0

The theme controls appear to deliver the intended transition and shortcut behavior. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
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Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately and concisely summarizes the main changes: unified theme toggle behavior and animation across the theme button and D shortcut.
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Inline comments:
In @apps/web/src/components/use-theme-transition.ts:
- Line 53: Update the view-transition callback in the theme toggle to apply
nextAppliedTheme directly to the document root’s theme classes before calling
setTheme(nextMode). Keep the state and storage update through setTheme; ensure
the new transition snapshot uses the updated class without relying on
next-themes’ separate effect.

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No issues found across 3 files

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[maxktz]

lgtm