feat: added animation for drag and drop of sessions

[Omkar-Wagholikar]

What changed

Dragging a session in the sidebar now picks it up: a lifted copy of the card follows the pointer, flies into its new spot on drop while the other rows slide to their new positions, and flies back home on Escape or a drop with no target.

Why

Grouping sessions into folders by drag worked, but the only feedback was a faded card and a target highlight, and the list jumped to its new layout on drop. It was hard to see where the session went, especially when a drop onto another session created a new folder.

• Drop on a folder: the card lands inside it and the rows below slide down.
• Drop on a session: the new folder grows in and the list slides to make room.
• Escape or no target: the card flies back to where it was picked up.
• Reduced motion: the card still follows the pointer, but the flights and sliding are skipped.

The motion lives in src/app/shell/sessionDragMotion.ts; SessionCard's existing pointer handler only calls into it. Drop logic and hit-testing are unchanged (the lifted copy ignores the pointer).

UI

Before (left) vs after (right), the same three drags: into an existing folder, onto another session to make a new folder, then a cancelled drag.

Changes

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Improvements

• Session cards now display a visual preview that follows your pointer while dragging and lands in the new position when dropped.
• Session lists animate their layout changes after a drop, making moved and newly added rows easier to follow.
• The preview is cleared when a drag is cancelled or dropped outside a valid target.
• Drag animations are skipped when reduced motion is enabled.

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📝 Walkthrough

Session-card dragging now creates a visual ghost after the pointer crosses the activation threshold. List drops synchronously update the session list and animate its layout. Pane drops land the ghost before placing the session.

Changes: Session drag motion

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Ghost and list motion helpers src/app/shell/sessionDragMotion.ts, src/app/shell/sessionDragMotion.test.ts	New helpers create and animate a session-card ghost, capture session-list row positions, and animate list reflow. Tests cover ghost behavior, row motion, drop settlement, and reduced-motion handling.
Sidebar drag and drop src/app/shell/Sidebar.tsx	The sidebar lifts the ghost after the pointer crosses the activation threshold. On list drops, it captures the layout, applies the drop synchronously, and settles the ghost against the updated layout. On pane drops, it lands the ghost before placing the session. Canceled and invalid drops cancel the ghost.

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Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Sidebar
  participant sessionDragMotion
  participant flushSync
  Sidebar->>sessionDragMotion: Capture list layout
  Sidebar->>flushSync: Apply session-list drop
  Sidebar->>sessionDragMotion: Settle ghost and animate updated rows

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to efdac

This change adds drag-and-drop motion to session cards in the sidebar. No concrete merge-blocking problem was found. Checking the animation in a real browser before merge is still sensible.

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Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 33.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 12 functions across 3 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the main change: adding drag-and-drop animation for sessions.
Description check		The description covers what changed, why it changed, UI evidence, reduced-motion behavior, testing, and scope. All required template sections are present and complete.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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[hardbeat920]

Thanks for working on this! I checked the animations in Chromium and found three things to fix before merging:

• Quick repeated drops can leave a card invisible. In sessionDragMotion.ts, a second landing can save opacity 0 and restore it later. Please make overlapping landings restore the card’s normal visibility. This confirms CodeRabbit’s comment too.
• The preview can land in the wrong spot when moving between folders. In Sidebar.tsx, the list animation starts before the landing position is measured, so the folder’s temporary movement affects that measurement. Please measure the final position before starting the animations.
• The preview briefly stops following the pointer. The 160ms lift animation overrides the transform used for pointer movement. Please animate the scale/rotation separately so the preview follows the pointer throughout the drag.

The six new tests and TypeScript check pass, but these issues showed up in the browser. Please add regression coverage for these cases as part of the fixes. Thanks!

[Omkar-Wagholikar]

Him @hardbeat920, I'm working on this and will raise the fix shortly

[Omkar-Wagholikar]

Hi @hardbeat920, Ive added the fix, do tell what you think of it!