Every "nothing here" page had its own copy-pasted dashed-border box —
icon + one muted line, inconsistent (some had a CTA, some didn't, no
description text anywhere). Replaced with one shared EmptyState
component: icon in a soft tinted circle, a real heading plus optional
description, and primary/secondary actions (either a Link or an
arbitrary action slot for things like "New Collection" that open a
dialog rather than navigate).
Applied to: recipes (no recipes / no search match), favorites, feed
(no one followed / no new posts / trending / for-you), collections
(index + detail), shopping lists, pantry, notifications, can-cook.
Left the small inline "no trending"/"no recent" lines inside Explore's
already-labeled sections and the notification-bell dropdown alone —
different context, a full empty-state box would be heavier than the
space warrants.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Favoriting already worked (heart toggle on the recipe detail page, DB
table, API route) but there was nowhere to see what you'd favorited —
the actual missing piece behind "add a favorites feature".
- New /recipes/favorites page: paginated grid of favorited recipes (cover
photo, difficulty, time, author), sorted by most-recently favorited.
A previously-favorited recipe stays visible even if the author later
goes private, matching the existing private-accounts scope decision
(existing access isn't revoked, only new discovery is affected).
- Unfavoriting from that page removes the card immediately — added an
optional onToggle callback to FavoriteButton for this.
- Added a lightweight "My Recipes / Favorites" tab pair at the top of
/recipes linking between the two, rather than a new top-level nav item
(nav is already at 8 entries).
Deliberately out of scope: favorite toggles on the main recipe grid, feed
cards, or search/explore results — favoriting your own recipes is odd
UX, and wiring session-aware favorited state into the public
(unauthenticated) search route is a separate, bigger change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Arnaud