Adds a Blocks tab to the Studio left sidebar with the full 78-item registry
catalog (58 blocks + 20 components). Users can browse by category, search by
title/description, preview CDN-hosted poster thumbnails with video-on-hover,
and install items on-demand with one click or drag-to-timeline.
Core changes:
- BlockCategory type + resolveBlockCategory() for 7 categories (Captions, VFX,
Transitions, Effects, Social, Data, Scenes)
- Registry API routes: GET /api/registry/blocks (catalog) + POST install
- StudioApiAdapter extended with listRegistryCatalog + installRegistryBlock
- Vite adapter reads from disk; CLI adapter fetches from GitHub (24h cache)
- BlockParam interface + params on 6 blocks for future parameter controls
Studio UI:
- 4th sidebar tab "Blocks" with responsive grid, category pills, search bar
- BlockCard: CDN poster thumbnail, video autoplay on hover, duration + WebGL badges
- On-demand install: blocks append as sub-compositions on timeline; components
overlay at start=0 spanning full duration with transparent background patching
- TIMELINE_BLOCK_MIME drag-and-drop to timeline
- BlockParamsPanel (Phase 3 scaffold) auto-opens for parameterized blocks
Registry manifests:
- All 58 blocks backfilled with preview: { video, poster } CDN URLs
- All 20 components normalized to object format + poster URLs added
- 6 blocks annotated with params (Liquid Glass/Background, Portal, Chart,
Logo Outro, Magnetic)
- flowchart-vertical preview generated and uploaded to CDN
## What
Three reusable effect components for the registry, each with a snippet HTML and companion `demo.html`:
| Component | Description |
|-----------|-------------|
| `grain-overlay` | Animated film grain texture overlay (CSS keyframes, extracted from warm-grain example) |
| `shimmer-sweep` | CSS gradient light sweep across text/elements, driven by GSAP custom property animation |
| `grid-pixelate-wipe` | Grid-based dissolve transition — screen breaks into 16×9 squares that scale in/out with stagger |
Establishes the `demo.html` convention in `CONTRIBUTING.md`.
## Why
Phase B of the catalog plan — seed the first components in the registry. Components are effect snippets that get merged into existing compositions (vs. blocks which are standalone sub-compositions).
## How
- **grain-overlay**: Extracted the grain texture pattern from the warm-grain example. Uses a 200% oversized tiled texture with `steps(1)` keyframe animation for the random-noise effect.
- **shimmer-sweep**: Original implementation using CSS custom properties (`--shimmer-pos`) animated by GSAP. The gradient mask uses `mix-blend-mode: overlay` for a natural light sweep. Auto-injects `.shimmer-mask` elements into `.shimmer-sweep-target` wrappers.
- **grid-pixelate-wipe**: Creates a 16×9 CSS Grid of cells, animated with GSAP stagger. Users drive `.grid-cell` `scale` directly in their timeline.
Simplify review addressed: scoped `.grain-texture` under `#grain-overlay`, scoped `.grid-cell` under `#grid-pixelate-overlay`, removed `window.gridPixelateIn/Out` globals in favor of direct GSAP patterns.
Each component ships a `demo.html` — a standalone composition that previews the effect and doubles as a fixture for the CI preview pipeline (PR 8).
## Test plan
- [x] `hyperframes add grain-overlay` installs to `compositions/components/grain-overlay.html`
- [x] `hyperframes add shimmer-sweep` installs to `compositions/components/shimmer-sweep.html`
- [x] `hyperframes add grid-pixelate-wipe` installs to `compositions/components/grid-pixelate-wipe.html`
- [x] All three return correct `--json` output with snippet and type info
- [x] `registry-item.json` files validate against the JSON Schema
- [x] `demo.html` files are self-contained with correct `data-composition-id` and `window.__timelines` registration
- [x] `oxfmt --check` and `oxlint` pass on all files
- [x] `CONTRIBUTING.md` documents the `demo.html` convention and registry item checklist
Miguel Ángel