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Related Issue

No issue — reported directly: the npm downloads badge should go, and the desktop app should be the
first thing a visitor can download.

Problem

Three problems on the marketing site:

  1. The hero carried a shields.io npm downloads badge. It advertised a package-registry metric
    rather than the product, and it made the hero's first visual claim a number.
  2. The desktop app was only downloadable below the fold, from the showcase section. A visitor
    landing on the page was offered a terminal install command first, even though the desktop app is
    now the headline product.
  3. The page was visually static.

What changed

  • Removed the npm downloads badge and its now-orphaned CSS.
  • Hero leads with the desktop app. The visitor's own platform is offered first (macOS Apple
    Silicon .dmg / Windows x64 installer), with an "All downloads" link to the release page. This
    reuses the desktopDownloads constants and .button-platform-icon styling already on main
    rather than introducing a parallel scheme.
  • CLI demoted, not removed. The install command keeps its place under an "Or install the CLI"
    label, and the hero copy no longer describes the product as terminal-only.
  • Legacy milestone moved out of the hero. The "30K+ Python downloads" popup advertises the
    previous Python product and competed with the download call to action; it now sits above the
    footer.
  • New ParticleField.vue. A canvas of small dots that drift behind the page and are pushed away
    from the pointer, easing back to their home positions. No dependency — plain 2D canvas, ~150 lines.

Notes on the particle field

  • Sits at z-index: -1 inside #app (which is position: relative; z-index: 1), so it renders
    behind all content and can never cover text. pointer-events: none.
  • Does not mount at all when prefers-reduced-motion: reduce matches, or when (pointer: fine) does
    not — there is no cursor to flee from on a touch device, so the rAF loop never starts.
  • Pauses on visibilitychange and cancels the frame plus removes every listener on unmount.
  • Device-pixel-ratio aware, capped at 2. Particle count scales with viewport area, clamped to 40-90.

Verification

Run in this branch's worktree:

  • pnpm --filter @pymodel/site build — exit 0, 46 modules transformed.
  • pnpm run lint — exit 0.

apps/site has no test suite, so the production build and lint are the honest gate here; no test
claim is being made.

Checklist

  • I have read the CONTRIBUTING document.
  • I have linked a related issue, or explained the problem above.
  • I have added tests that prove my feature works. — apps/site has no test harness.
  • Ran gen-changesets skill, or this PR needs no changeset. — @pymodel/site is private and not published.
  • Ran gen-docs skill, or this PR needs no doc update.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added an animated particle background that adapts to device capabilities and accessibility preferences.
    • Added platform-aware desktop download links, prioritizing Windows or macOS based on the current device.
    • Added an “All downloads” release link.
    • Updated the hero section to highlight desktop downloads alongside the CLI.
  • Style
    • Refined download buttons and related page styling.
    • Moved legacy download access to a milestone note near the bottom of the page.

… particle field

- Remove the shields.io npm downloads badge from the hero.
- Offer the desktop download for the visitor's platform directly in the
  hero, reusing the existing desktopDownloads constants, and demote the
  CLI install command to a secondary path below it.
- Move the legacy Python downloads milestone out of the hero; it competes
  with the download call to action and advertises the previous product.
- Add ParticleField: a canvas of small dots that drift behind the page and
  move away from the pointer. It sits at z-index -1 inside #app, so it
  never covers content, and it does not mount at all under
  prefers-reduced-motion or on coarse pointers.
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The landing page adds an adaptive particle background and changes the hero to show platform-aware desktop downloads, an all-downloads release link, and a separate CLI installation label. The legacy downloads popup moves to a milestone footnote.

Changes

Landing Page Updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Particle background component
apps/site/src/components/ParticleField.vue
Adds a responsive canvas particle animation with pointer repulsion, reduced-motion and pointer checks, visibility handling, resizing, and cleanup.
Download hero integration
apps/site/src/App.vue
Mounts ParticleField, orders Windows and macOS downloads by platform, adds release and CLI links, relocates the legacy popup, and updates related styles.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f4d50

On high-DPI displays, the new particle background can render at the wrong CSS size and leave particles concentrated in part of the viewport. This localized visual correctness issue should be fixed before merge; the other findings are bounded follow-ups.

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apps/site/src/components/ParticleField.vue (2)

115-134: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

React to reduced-motion changes after mount.

The component reads (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) once during mount. If the user turns on reduced motion while the page stays open, the animation keeps running. Add a change listener on the media query and stop the animation when the preference becomes reduce.

As per path instructions: "Check accessibility basics (alt text, contrast, focus states)".

♻️ Proposed listener
+let motionQuery;
+
+function onMotionPreferenceChange(event) {
+  if (event.matches) {
+    stopAnimation();
+    enabled.value = false;
+  }
+}

Register it in onMounted and remove it in onUnmounted:

+  motionQuery = window.matchMedia('(prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)');
+  motionQuery.addEventListener('change', onMotionPreferenceChange);
+  motionQuery?.removeEventListener('change', onMotionPreferenceChange);
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In `@apps/site/src/components/ParticleField.vue` around lines 115 - 134, Update
ParticleField’s onMounted setup to retain the reduced-motion MediaQueryList,
register a change listener that stops the animation and disables the field when
matches becomes true, and remove that listener during onUnmounted alongside the
existing event cleanup.

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37-47: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Throttle the resize handler.

resize runs on every resize event. It reallocates the canvas backing store and rebuilds all particles each time. A window drag fires this handler continuously. Coalesce the work into one animation frame.

♻️ Proposed throttle
+let resizeFrame;
+
+function onResize() {
+  if (resizeFrame !== undefined) return;
+  resizeFrame = window.requestAnimationFrame(() => {
+    resizeFrame = undefined;
+    resize();
+  });
+}

Then register and clean up the throttled handler:

-  window.addEventListener('resize', resize);
+  window.addEventListener('resize', onResize);
-  window.removeEventListener('resize', resize);
+  window.removeEventListener('resize', onResize);
+  if (resizeFrame !== undefined) window.cancelAnimationFrame(resizeFrame);
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In `@apps/site/src/components/ParticleField.vue` around lines 37 - 47, Throttle
the ParticleField resize work by coalescing repeated resize events into a single
requestAnimationFrame callback before updating the canvas dimensions and calling
createParticles. Register the throttled handler for window resize events and
cancel any pending animation frame during cleanup, using the existing resize
lifecycle hooks.
apps/site/src/App.vue (1)

24-33: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Deduplicate the download entries and add the u flag.

Both ternary branches list the same two entries in a different order. Define the entries once and reorder them. Oxlint also reports require-unicode-regexp for the regular expression on Line 24.

♻️ Proposed refactor
-const isWindows = /Win/i.test(navigator.platform || navigator.userAgent);
-const heroDownloads = (isWindows
-  ? [
-      { id: 'windows', label: 'Download for Windows', note: 'Windows x64', icon: '/brand/windows11.svg', href: desktopDownloads.windows },
-      { id: 'mac', label: 'Download for macOS', note: 'Apple Silicon', icon: '/brand/apple.svg', href: desktopDownloads.mac },
-    ]
-  : [
-      { id: 'mac', label: 'Download for macOS', note: 'Apple Silicon', icon: '/brand/apple.svg', href: desktopDownloads.mac },
-      { id: 'windows', label: 'Download for Windows', note: 'Windows x64', icon: '/brand/windows11.svg', href: desktopDownloads.windows },
-    ]);
+const isWindows = /Win/iu.test(navigator.platform || navigator.userAgent);
+const downloadEntries = [
+  { id: 'mac', label: 'Download for macOS', note: 'Apple Silicon', icon: '/brand/apple.svg', href: desktopDownloads.mac },
+  { id: 'windows', label: 'Download for Windows', note: 'Windows x64', icon: '/brand/windows11.svg', href: desktopDownloads.windows },
+];
+const heroDownloads = isWindows ? [...downloadEntries].reverse() : downloadEntries;
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In `@apps/site/src/App.vue` around lines 24 - 33, Update the hero download
construction around isWindows and heroDownloads: add the regular expression’s
Unicode flag, define the Windows and macOS entries once, then derive the
displayed order by reordering those shared entries based on isWindows instead of
duplicating both ternary branches.

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Inline comments:
In `@apps/site/src/components/ParticleField.vue`:
- Around line 149-156: Update the .particle-field CSS rule to explicitly set
width and height to the viewport dimensions (for example, 100%) while retaining
the DPR-scaled canvas.width and canvas.height backing store in resize. Ensure
the displayed canvas matches the viewport on high-DPI screens without changing
the particle rendering logic.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@apps/site/src/App.vue`:
- Around line 24-33: Update the hero download construction around isWindows and
heroDownloads: add the regular expression’s Unicode flag, define the Windows and
macOS entries once, then derive the displayed order by reordering those shared
entries based on isWindows instead of duplicating both ternary branches.

In `@apps/site/src/components/ParticleField.vue`:
- Around line 115-134: Update ParticleField’s onMounted setup to retain the
reduced-motion MediaQueryList, register a change listener that stops the
animation and disables the field when matches becomes true, and remove that
listener during onUnmounted alongside the existing event cleanup.
- Around line 37-47: Throttle the ParticleField resize work by coalescing
repeated resize events into a single requestAnimationFrame callback before
updating the canvas dimensions and calling createParticles. Register the
throttled handler for window resize events and cancel any pending animation
frame during cleanup, using the existing resize lifecycle hooks.
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Comment thread apps/site/src/components/ParticleField.vue
elkaix added 3 commits August 16, 2026 01:39
The canvas sets width and height attributes scaled by devicePixelRatio.
Those give the element a specified size that inset: 0 cannot shrink, so on
a 2x display the box was twice the viewport and the dots covered only the
top-left quadrant. Percentages resolve against the fixed containing block
and, unlike 100vw, exclude the scrollbar gutter.
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