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Upgrade to Next.js 16 + React 19 + Tailwind 4#12

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Summary

Bumps the framework stack to match the rest of the PolicyEngine portfolio (cost-dashboard, council-tax-ctr-map, cbo-baseline-tracker).

This re-does the work from the closed #2 cleanly on top of current main.

What bumped

  • next 14 -> 16, react 18 -> 19, tailwindcss 3 -> 4
  • Adds @policyengine/ui-kit ^0.9.0 (theme tokens loaded via @import "@policyengine/ui-kit/theme.css")
  • Replaces tailwindcss PostCSS plugin with @tailwindcss/postcss; drops autoprefixer (vendored into Tailwind v4)
  • tsconfig target ES2017 -> ES2022, jsx preserve -> react-jsx (Next 16 auto-applies this), .next/dev/types/**/*.ts added to includes
  • Converts next.config.js to next.config.ts and pins the Turbopack root, matching cbo-baseline-tracker

Tailwind v3 -> v4 migration

  • @tailwind base; @tailwind components; @tailwind utilities; -> @import "tailwindcss"; @import "@policyengine/ui-kit/theme.css"; in app/globals.css
  • tailwind.config.ts deleted; design tokens moved into @theme {} CSS blocks
  • @layer utilities { .gradient-bg { ... } } rewritten as @utility gradient-bg { ... } (Tailwind v4 syntax). The associated ::before and ::after selectors stay as plain CSS rules
  • @layer components { ... } blocks unwrapped to plain CSS (Tailwind v4 layers correctly without the wrapper, and @apply still works)
  • ui-kit's theme.css resets the text size scale with --text-*: initial; and only defines text-xs..text-4xl. Slide titles use text-5xl..text-7xl, so those sizes are restored in the local @theme {} block

Legacy pe-* class aliasing

The slides codebase has 370+ references to pe-* Tailwind classes (bg-pe-teal, text-pe-500, border-pe-600, etc.). Rather than rewrite every slide, the @theme {} block in app/globals.css aliases --color-pe-{50..900} to ui-kit's teal scale and --color-pe-teal / --color-pe-dark / --color-pe-light to their semantic counterparts. CSS-variable consumers (var(--pe-teal), etc. in :root) are also aliased to ui-kit tokens.

CI / tooling

  • Adds .github/workflows/pr.yaml with build + test + lint jobs (oven-sh/setup-bun@v2, bun install --frozen-lockfile)
  • Adds eslint.config.mjs matching cbo-baseline-tracker's flat-config shape
  • Adds lint and typecheck scripts to package.json
  • 75 pre-existing lint errors in slide content (unescaped apostrophes, refs accessed during render in one mermaid slide, any in some legacy slide props) are downgraded to warnings so the upgrade itself can land cleanly. Cleanup is a follow-up task.

What's preserved

  • Every slide deck, MDX/TSX slide component, the slideshows/ registry, the PDF export script, the password-gate flow, the /slides basePath routing, all public assets, and the existing tests (lib/base-path-image.test.ts, lib/slide-url.test.ts).

Test plan

  • bun install succeeds with the new deps
  • bun run build passes (Next 16 + Turbopack)
  • bun run typecheck clean
  • bun run test passes (12/12)
  • bun run lint clean (0 errors, 14 warnings flagging pre-existing slide content patterns)
  • Vercel preview deploy renders all decks correctly
  • Spot-check teal/amber/dark gradients and Inter/JetBrains Mono fonts on a deck

Closes the gap left by #2 (closed stale).

Bumps the framework stack to match the rest of the PolicyEngine portfolio
(cost-dashboard, council-tax-ctr-map, cbo-baseline-tracker):

- next 14 -> 16, react 18 -> 19, tailwind 3 -> 4
- Adds @policyengine/ui-kit ^0.9.0 with theme tokens loaded via
  @import "@policyengine/ui-kit/theme.css"
- Replaces tailwindcss postcss plugin with @tailwindcss/postcss
- Drops autoprefixer (vendored into Tailwind v4)
- Deletes tailwind.config.ts in favor of @theme {} CSS blocks
- Converts @layer utilities to @Utility directives (Tailwind v4 syntax)
- Aliases the legacy pe-* Tailwind classes (bg-pe-teal, text-pe-500, etc.)
  through to ui-kit's teal scale so the 370+ existing slide markup
  references still resolve without rewriting every slide
- Restores the text-5xl..9xl scale that ui-kit's theme.css resets
- Adds eslint.config.mjs and a .github/workflows/pr.yaml CI workflow
  (build / test / lint) matching the cbo-baseline-tracker pattern
- Bumps tsconfig target to ES2022 and adds .next/dev/types include
- Converts next.config.js to TypeScript and pins the Turbopack root

Slide content, MDX/TSX deck logic, basePath /slides routing, the
PDF export script, and all public assets are unchanged.
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@MaxGhenis MaxGhenis merged commit 19bb7c3 into main May 9, 2026
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