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Daniel Roth c96d964d24 feat(dates): restore a calendar picker behind DateInput
Dropping `<input type="date">` for the dd/mm/yyyy mask also dropped its
calendar, leaving typing as the only way to enter a date. ADR-0019 accepted
that cost but named the remedy: add a picker *behind* `DateInput`, writing the
same ISO value, rather than revert to the native control. That was felt
immediately in use, so this does it.

`DateInput` now renders a calendar button inside the field's right edge and a
Calendar in a Radix popover. Typing and picking are equal routes to the same
value — picking fills the text, typing moves the grid — so neither is
privileged and the two cannot disagree. The trigger is `type="button"` so it
cannot submit the form, and carries an aria-label, a bare icon having no
accessible name.

The calendar wrapper is written by hand rather than taken from the shadcn
registry: the published template targets react-day-picker v8/v9, whose
`classNames` keys differ from the `UI` enum v10 uses. It defaults to the enGB
locale, which carries `weekStartsOn: 1`, so the grid starts on Monday without
being told to.

The delicate part is the `Date` boundary. A calendar works in `Date`s, and
both obvious conversions are wrong: `new Date("2026-03-01")` is midnight UTC,
which is 29 February west of Greenwich, and `toISOString()` shifts the day back
the other way. So `isoToLocalDate` and `localDateToIso` build and read local
parts, and they are the only two functions in `src/utils/dates.ts` that touch
`Date` at all — everything else stays string-only. The round trip is tested
across a full month rather than at a sample day, because the failure only
appears on some days in some zones; the suite was also run under
TZ=America/Los_Angeles and TZ=Pacific/Auckland.

Dependencies: react-day-picker and date-fns, the latter already present
transitively and now direct at v4. `@tremor/react` bundles react-day-picker v8
nested and npm kept it isolated on date-fns v3, so nothing existing changed
version; no Tremor DatePicker is used anywhere in src, so there is no second
copy in the bundle. The alternative was a hand-rolled month grid with no
dependency, rejected because keyboard navigation and ARIA on a calendar are
easy to get subtly wrong and not worth owning.

ADR-0019's "the native calendar picker is gone" consequence was now false and
has been rewritten.

TESTS: tsc --noEmit and ESLint clean; vitest 582 passing (53 files), 24 of them
for the date helpers. NOT verified in a browser — this project has no jsdom or
testing-library, and `next build` was not run because it would statically
render pages against a DATABASE_URL still pointing at production. The new
Cypress case, which picks 17 March from the grid and expects 17/03/2026 in the
field, is unrun like the rest of that spec.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-22 15:39:11 +00:00

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Claude guidance for this project

Project conventions

  • Domain language lives in CONTEXT.md. Read it before naming or discussing BulkUpload, Portfolio, Property, etc. concepts.
  • Architectural decisions live in docs/adr/. Read existing ADRs before proposing changes that touch state machines or core flows. Write a new ADR for any decision that's hard to reverse, surprising without context, and the result of a real trade-off.

React

  • Avoid useEffect and useMemo. Derive values inline, prefer Server Components + Route Handlers, prefer event handlers. If a hook is genuinely the only option, flag it and ask before using it.
  • Use TanStack Query (@tanstack/react-query), not raw fetch, for client-side HTTP. Reads use useQuery; writes use useMutation. This project is on v4 — note that refetchInterval's callback signature is (data, query), not v5's (query).

Dates

  • dd/mm/yyyy everywhere a person reads or types a date. This is a UK product. 03/09/2026 is 3 September; rendering it as 3 March is silently wrong data, not a cosmetic bug.
  • Never <input type="date">. Its format follows the browser's locale, so a US-configured browser shows mm/dd/yyyy and no attribute overrides it. Use DateInput (@/app/components/DateInput) instead — it masks to dd/mm/yyyy, carries a calendar picker, and its value/onChange stay YYYY-MM-DD.
  • YYYY-MM-DD is the only format that crosses a boundary — form state, request bodies, Drizzle date columns. The display format stops at the input's edge. Parsing/formatting helpers are in @/utils/dates; for output, pass "en-GB" to toLocaleDateString / Intl.DateTimeFormat.
  • See ADR-0019.

Utilities

  • src/utils/ is for generic helpers — no domain knowledge (e.g. dates.ts). src/app/utils.ts is for company-specific ones (EPC bands, SAP points, portfolio ratings). src/lib/utils.ts is vendored Tremor/shadcn class helpers — don't add to it.

Next.js 15 route handlers

  • params is a Promise — type as { params: Promise<{ ... }> } and await params before destructuring.
  • Error responses use { error: string } consistently. Don't drift to { msg } or other shapes.