Route Change Progress
Show that a page change is underway when navigation isn't instant.
What it adds
A single global indicator at the top of the app that appears while a client-side navigation is in flight.
What your agent is told to do
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What your agent is told to do
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Add one indicator, owned globally, tied to the app's navigation lifecycle rather than to any individual view.
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Delay its appearance by roughly 200ms. Most navigations finish before that, and an indicator that flashes on every click reads as jank.
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Complete or cancel it on every terminal outcome — success, redirect, error, and user-cancelled back navigation.
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Do not use this to cover the arrival of data inside a view. Per-view content placeholders are owned by Skeleton Loading; extend that rather than building a second one. The two must never be visible at the same time — once the route has committed, this indicator is finished.
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Announce only transitions that run long. A polite live-region message after a couple of seconds is enough; do not narrate every route change.
Edge cases it handles
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Edge cases it handles
6- A navigation that redirects must finish the indicator on the final destination, not the intermediate one.
- A failed navigation must clear the indicator and surface the error, never leave a bar stuck at 90%.
- Rapid successive navigations must reuse one indicator, not stack several.
- Browser back and forward are navigations too, and are often instant from cache — the delay threshold matters most here.
- The bar must sit above sticky headers and modals without covering a focused control.
- Respect prefers-reduced-motion: keep the state change, drop the animated crawl.
Definition of done
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Definition of done
8- Exactly one navigation indicator exists app-wide.
- Navigations faster than the delay threshold show nothing.
- Redirects, errors, and cancellations all clear the indicator.
- The indicator and any per-view skeleton are never on screen together.
- Long transitions are announced once to screen readers, short ones silently.
- The indicator never obscures content or a focused element.
- The feature matches the existing design system.
- No existing functionality is broken.
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Deep-Linkable Modals
Deep-Linkable Modals
Make dialogs and detail panels linkable without losing the page behind them.
What it does
Modals and detail panels that live at their own URL, so they can be shared, bookmarked, and closed with the back button.
How it works
- 1 Pick the overlays worth linking — record detail, edit forms, share dialogs — and give each one a real URL.
- 2 When that URL is opened directly, with no page underneath, render the content as a full page instead of an overlay floating on nothing.
- 3 Make the browser back button close the modal and leave the user on the page they were on, not two steps back.
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Add this feature to my app:
https://addthisfeature.com/x/deep-linkable-modals
Tabs
Tabs
Split a crowded page into sections without another route.
What it does
Accessible tabbed sections, with the active tab reflected in the URL.
How it works
- 1 Use tabs for alternative views of the SAME thing. If the content is unrelated, it wants a separate page.
- 2 Put the active tab in the URL so a tab can be linked, bookmarked, and survives a refresh.
- 3 Implement the WAI-ARIA tabs pattern: arrow keys move between tabs, Tab moves into the panel.
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https://addthisfeature.com/x/tabs
Previous and Next Record Navigation
Previous and Next Record Navigation
Move through a result set one record at a time without going back to the list.
What it does
Previous and next controls on a detail view that walk the same sequence the user's list produced.
How it works
- 1 Derive the sequence from the filter, sort, and search that were active on the originating list — not from the table's default ordering. A different order than the list the user came from is a bug, not a fallback.
- 2 Carry the sequence identity in the URL so the detail page is shareable and survives a refresh.
- 3 Disable the controls at genuine boundaries and make that state visible; do not fetch a page of results just to discover there is nothing after the last record.
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Add this feature to my app:
https://addthisfeature.com/x/previous-and-next-record-navigation
How it works
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Copy the link
Grab the Markdown instruction URL for this feature.
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Give it to your AI
Paste it into Claude Code, Cursor, v0, Lovable — whatever you build with.
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It inspects, then implements
Your agent reads your existing app first, then adds the feature to fit it.
Works with your stack
These instructions are written to adapt. They tell the agent to detect your framework, match your existing design system, and reuse what you already have — rather than assuming a particular stack.
Need it tighter than that? Customize the feature and tell it exactly what you're running.