From 49212b5194a00c7cf14bca395deed21d909f3084 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen Walsh <stephenrobertwalsh@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2026 20:03:20 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Line up the home page cards and turn their links into badges

---
 src/components/CopyCommand.astro |  4 +-
 src/data/templates.ts            | 23 ++++++-----
 src/pages/index.astro            |  2 +-
 src/styles/site.css              | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 4 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/components/CopyCommand.astro b/src/components/CopyCommand.astro
index 5ebc343..9ddda27 100644
--- a/src/components/CopyCommand.astro
+++ b/src/components/CopyCommand.astro
@@ -6,12 +6,12 @@ interface Props {
 }
 
 const { command } = Astro.props;
-// Each word is kept whole, so a long command wraps at spaces and never inside a package name or an option.
+// A long command wraps at spaces. A word too long for the line, such as a package name on a phone, breaks after a dot.
 const words = command.split(' ');
 ---
 
 <div class="command">
-  <code><span class="prompt" aria-hidden="true">$</span> {words.map((w, i) => <Fragment>{i > 0 && ' '}<span class="word">{w}</span></Fragment>)}</code>
+  <code><span class="prompt" aria-hidden="true">$</span> {words.map((w, i) => <Fragment>{i > 0 && ' '}<span class="word">{w.split('.').map((part, j) => <Fragment>{j > 0 && <Fragment>.<wbr /></Fragment>}{part}</Fragment>)}</span></Fragment>)}</code>
   <button type="button" class="copy" data-copy={command} aria-label={`Copy ${command}`} title="Copy">
     <span class="when-idle"><Icon name="copy" /></span>
     <span class="when-done"><Icon name="check" /></span>
diff --git a/src/data/templates.ts b/src/data/templates.ts
index a192f08..3a644ff 100644
--- a/src/data/templates.ts
+++ b/src/data/templates.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-// The templates on the home page. Keys, names, packages and hues match scripts/brand.mjs in the brand repository.
+// The templates on the home page. Keep each highlight to one short line, about 34 characters, so the cards line up.
+// Keys, names, packages and hues match scripts/brand.mjs in the brand repository.
 
 export interface Template {
   key: string;
@@ -24,8 +25,8 @@ export const templates: Template[] = [
     subject: 'ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs',
     highlights: [
       'Endpoints grouped by feature',
-      'OpenAPI from XML comments, browsed in Scalar',
-      'Problem Details errors and optional JWT bearer auth',
+      'OpenAPI docs browsed in Scalar',
+      'Problem Details, optional JWT auth',
     ],
   },
   {
@@ -38,8 +39,8 @@ export const templates: Template[] = [
     hue: 'violet',
     subject: 'Model Context Protocol servers',
     highlights: [
-      'Six task-shaped tools, plus resources and prompts',
-      'Streamable HTTP, with the MCP Inspector in Docker Compose',
+      'Six tools, resources and prompts',
+      'MCP Inspector in Docker Compose',
       'Optional OAuth protection',
     ],
   },
@@ -53,8 +54,8 @@ export const templates: Template[] = [
     hue: 'pink',
     subject: 'GraphQL on Hot Chocolate',
     highlights: [
-      'Hot Chocolate with the Nitro IDE built in',
-      'Relay cursor paging and DataLoaders',
+      'Hot Chocolate with Nitro built in',
+      'Relay paging and DataLoaders',
       'Optional JWT bearer auth',
     ],
   },
@@ -68,9 +69,9 @@ export const templates: Template[] = [
     hue: 'blue',
     subject: 'ASP.NET Core Web APIs',
     highlights: [
-      'Controllers grouped by feature, kept thin by Mediator',
-      'OpenAPI from XML comments, browsed in Scalar',
-      'Problem Details errors and optional JWT bearer auth',
+      'Thin controllers, grouped by feature',
+      'OpenAPI docs browsed in Scalar',
+      'Problem Details, optional JWT auth',
     ],
   },
   {
@@ -84,7 +85,7 @@ export const templates: Template[] = [
     subject: 'AWS Lambda',
     highlights: [
       'Packaged as a container image',
-      'Source-generated JSON for quick cold starts',
+      'Source-generated JSON, fast starts',
       'Paging and search for every list',
     ],
   },
diff --git a/src/pages/index.astro b/src/pages/index.astro
index c8e790f..555006f 100644
--- a/src/pages/index.astro
+++ b/src/pages/index.astro
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import { shared, templates } from '../data/templates';
   <section class="hero">
     <div class="wrap hero-grid">
       <div class="hero-copy">
-        <p class="eyebrow">dotnet new templates for .NET 10</p>
+        <p class="eyebrow">dotnet new templates for .NET&nbsp;10</p>
         <h1>Clean Architecture templates for .NET, <span>minus the ceremony.</span></h1>
         <p class="lede">
           Five templates, one sensible core. Each one builds the same small movie review app on the same Application and
diff --git a/src/styles/site.css b/src/styles/site.css
index 6ba2714..4a47906 100644
--- a/src/styles/site.css
+++ b/src/styles/site.css
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ html {
 }
 
 body {
+  overflow-x: clip;
   margin: 0;
   background: var(--bg);
   color: var(--text);
@@ -429,6 +430,42 @@ li {
   text-decoration: underline;
 }
 
+/* On cards, links are badges that share the full width and sit on the bottom edge. */
+.card .links {
+  gap: 0.5rem;
+}
+
+.card .links a {
+  flex: 1 1 0;
+  min-width: max-content;
+  justify-content: center;
+}
+
+.card .links a:not(.button) {
+  padding: 0.45rem 0.9rem;
+  border-radius: 999px;
+  border: 1px solid var(--border-strong);
+  color: var(--text);
+  line-height: 1.2;
+  transition:
+    border-color 150ms ease,
+    color 150ms ease;
+}
+
+.card .links a:not(.button):hover {
+  text-decoration: none;
+  border-color: var(--accent);
+  color: var(--accent);
+}
+
+@media (max-width: 30rem) {
+  .card .links a:not(.button) {
+    gap: 0.3rem;
+    padding-inline: 0.6rem;
+    font-size: 0.9rem;
+  }
+}
+
 /* Commands wrap at spaces instead of scrolling, with the prompt hanging out to the left. */
 .commands {
   display: grid;
@@ -457,7 +494,10 @@ li {
 }
 
 .commands .word {
-  white-space: nowrap;
+  display: inline-block;
+  max-width: 100%;
+  overflow-wrap: anywhere;
+  text-indent: 0;
 }
 
 .commands .copy {
@@ -488,11 +528,16 @@ li {
   gap: 1.25rem;
 }
 
+/* Each template card spans four rows of the grid (head, highlights, commands, badges) and shares them with
+   its neighbours, so the parts line up across a row even when one card's text runs longer. */
 .template {
   --hue: var(--hue-dark);
 
-  display: flex;
-  flex-direction: column;
+  display: grid;
+  grid-row: span 4;
+  grid-template-rows: subgrid;
+  row-gap: 1.25rem;
+  align-content: start;
   border-top: 4px solid var(--hue);
   transition:
     border-color 150ms ease,
@@ -509,7 +554,6 @@ li {
   display: flex;
   align-items: center;
   gap: 1rem;
-  margin-bottom: 1.25rem;
 }
 
 .template-head picture {
@@ -541,12 +585,21 @@ li {
 .highlights {
   list-style: none;
   padding: 0;
-  margin: 0 0 1.25rem;
+  margin: 0;
   display: grid;
+  align-content: start;
   gap: 0.45rem;
   font-size: 0.97rem;
 }
 
+.template .commands {
+  align-self: end;
+}
+
+.template .links {
+  padding-top: 0;
+}
+
 .highlights li {
   position: relative;
   padding-left: 1.2rem;
@@ -563,15 +616,13 @@ li {
   background: var(--hue);
 }
 
-.template .links a:not(.button) {
-  color: var(--text);
-}
-
 .template .links a:not(.button):hover {
+  border-color: var(--hue);
   color: var(--hue);
 }
 
 .shared {
+  grid-row: span 4;
   display: flex;
   flex-direction: column;
   background: transparent;