refactor animations once again

src/app/_components/Animated/AnimateIn.tsx

@@ -1,62 +1,43 @@
-import { useGSAP } from "@gsap/react";
 import { useRef, type HTMLAttributes, type ReactNode } from "react";
-import { useGsapContext } from "~/app/_providers/GsapProvicer";
 import { SplitText } from "gsap/SplitText";
 import gsap from 'gsap'
 import { cn } from "~/lib/utils";
+import { useReveal } from "./useReveal";
+
 const AnimateTextIn = ({
   children,
   animation = "type",
   position = 0,
-  tlId = undefined,
   speed = 1,
   scrollOnly = false,
+  once = false,
   className
 }: {
   children: ReactNode,
   animation?: "type" | "slide",
   position?: gsap.Position,
-  tlId?: string,
   scrollOnly?: boolean,
+  once?: boolean,
   speed?: number,
   className?: HTMLAttributes<HTMLDivElement>['className']
 }) => {
   const el = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null)
-  const gsapContext = useGsapContext();
+  useReveal(el, {
-  useGSAP(() => {
+    position,
-    const rect = el.current?.getBoundingClientRect()
+    scrollOnly,
-    const scroller = gsapContext?.getScroller()
+    once,
-    console.log(scroller)
+    debugId: `text-${position}`,
-    let viewportTop = 0
+    makeReveal: (node) => {
-    let viewportBottom = window.innerHeight
+      // The wrapper starts at opacity 0 (so there's no flash of unsplit text);
-    if (scroller && scroller instanceof Element) {
+      // reveal the wrapper and let the per-character tween do the animation.
-      const scrollerRect = scroller.getBoundingClientRect()
+      gsap.set(node, { opacity: 1 })
-      viewportTop = scrollerRect.top
+      const split = new SplitText(node, { type: 'chars' })
-      viewportBottom = scrollerRect.top + scrollerRect.height
-    }
-    const isInView = rect && rect.bottom > viewportTop && rect.top < viewportBottom
-    console.log(isInView)
-    const chars = new SplitText(el.current, { type: 'chars' })
-    gsapContext?.addAnimation(gsap.to(el.current, { opacity: 100, duration: 0 }), 0, tlId)
       const fromVars = animation === "slide"
-      ? { opacity: 0, x: -10, duration: 0.2 * speed, stagger: { each: 0.08 * speed }, ease: 'bounce.inOut', onComplete: () => chars.revert() }
+        ? { opacity: 0, x: -10, duration: 0.2 * speed, stagger: { each: 0.08 * speed }, ease: 'bounce.inOut' }
-      : { opacity: 0, duration: 0.01 * speed, stagger: { each: 0.04 * speed }, ease: 'bounce.inOut', onComplete: () => chars.revert() }
+        : { opacity: 0, duration: 0.01 * speed, stagger: { each: 0.04 * speed }, ease: 'bounce.inOut' }
-    if (isInView && !scrollOnly) {
+      return gsap.from(split.chars, { ...fromVars, paused: true })
-      gsapContext?.addAnimation(gsap.from(chars.chars, fromVars), position, tlId)
+    },
-    } else {
-      gsap.from(chars.chars,
-        {
-          ...fromVars,
-          scrollTrigger: {
-            trigger: el.current,
-            start: 'top bottom',
-            end: 'bottom top',
-            toggleActions: "play reverse play reverse",
-            scroller
-          }
   })
-    }
-  }, { dependencies: [] })
   return (
     <div ref={el} className={cn(className, "opacity-0")}>
       {children}

src/app/_components/Animated/AnimatePopUp.tsx

@@ -6,16 +6,20 @@ const AnimatePopUp = ({
   position,
   className,
   duration=1,
-  ease='elastic'
+  ease='elastic',
+  scrollOnly=false,
+  once=false,
 }:{
     children:ReactNode
     position:gsap.Position,
     className?:HTMLAttributes<HTMLDivElement>['className']
     duration?:number,
-    ease?:gsap.EaseString|gsap.EaseFunction
+    ease?:gsap.EaseString|gsap.EaseFunction,
+    scrollOnly?:boolean,
+    once?:boolean,
   }) => {
   return (
-    <AnimatedDiv children={children} position={position} className={cn(className,'h-0 translate-y-[50] overflow-hidden')} height='auto' y={0} overflow='' ease={ease} duration={duration} />
+    <AnimatedDiv children={children} position={position} scrollOnly={scrollOnly} once={once} className={cn(className,'h-0 translate-y-[50] overflow-hidden')} height='auto' y={0} overflow='' ease={ease} duration={duration} />
   )
 }
 

src/app/_components/Animated/AnimatedDiv.tsx

@@ -1,36 +1,39 @@
 import gsap from "gsap";
-import { type HTMLAttributes,
+import { type HTMLAttributes, type ReactNode, useRef } from "react";
-type ReactNode, useLayoutEffect, useRef } from "react";
+import { useReveal } from "./useReveal";
-import { useGsapContext } from "~/app/_providers/GsapProvicer";
+
 const AnimatedDiv = (
   {
     children,
     position,
     className,
-    animationMode='to',
+    animationMode = 'to',
+    scrollOnly = false,
+    once = false,
+    debugId,
     ...tweenVars
   }:
   gsap.TweenVars & {
-    children:ReactNode,
+    children: ReactNode,
-    position:gsap.Position,
+    position: gsap.Position,
-    animationMode?: 'from'|'to',
+    animationMode?: 'from' | 'to',
-    className?:HTMLAttributes<HTMLDivElement>['className']
+    scrollOnly?: boolean,
+    once?: boolean,
+    debugId?: string,
+    className?: HTMLAttributes<HTMLDivElement>['className']
   }
 ) => {
-  const div = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);
+  const div = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null)
-  const gsapContext = useGsapContext()
+  useReveal(div, {
-  useLayoutEffect(() => {
+    position,
-    let tween:gsap.core.Tween;
+    scrollOnly,
-    switch(animationMode) {
+    once,
-      case 'from':
+    debugId,
-        tween = gsap.from(div.current,tweenVars);
+    makeReveal: (el) =>
-        break;
+      animationMode === 'from'
-      case 'to':
+        ? gsap.from(el, { ...tweenVars, paused: true })
-        tween = gsap.to(div.current,tweenVars);
+        : gsap.to(el, { ...tweenVars, paused: true }),
-        break;
+  })
-    }
-    gsapContext?.addAnimation(tween,position)
-  },[])
   return (
     <div ref={div} className={className}>
       {children}

src/app/_components/Animated/useReveal.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+'use client'
+
+import { useGSAP } from "@gsap/react"
+import { ScrollTrigger } from "gsap/all"
+import type { RefObject } from "react"
+import { GSAP_DEBUG, useGsapContext } from "~/app/_providers/GsapProvicer"
+
+export type UseRevealOptions = {
+  position: gsap.Position
+  /** Skip the orchestrated entrance and let ScrollTrigger drive from the start. */
+  scrollOnly?: boolean
+  /**
+   * Reveal once and keep it: after the element animates in (entrance or first
+   * scroll-in) it never reverses on leave. Default false = animate out at the
+   * top and back in on scroll-up.
+   */
+  once?: boolean
+  debugId?: string
+  /**
+   * Build the hidden -> shown animation for `el`. It must be a single,
+   * *independent* animation (not added to any timeline): `play()` reveals,
+   * `reverse()` hides. The hook pauses it, schedules its entrance through the
+   * shared timeline, and lets a ScrollTrigger drive the very same animation on
+   * scroll — so the two modes never fight over the element.
+   */
+  makeReveal: (el: HTMLElement) => gsap.core.Tween | gsap.core.Timeline
+}
+
+/**
+ * Shared reveal behavior for cards, text and pop-ups: an element in view at
+ * load plays an orchestrated timeline entrance, then hands the *same* tween to
+ * a ScrollTrigger that animates it out at the top and back in on scroll-up. An
+ * element off-screen at load is ScrollTrigger-driven from the start.
+ */
+export function useReveal(
+  ref: RefObject<HTMLElement | null>,
+  { position, scrollOnly = false, once = false, debugId, makeReveal }: UseRevealOptions,
+) {
+  const ctx = useGsapContext()
+  useGSAP(() => {
+    const el = ref.current
+    if (!el || !ctx) return
+
+    const scroller = ctx.getScroller()
+    const scrollerEl = scroller instanceof Element ? scroller : undefined
+
+    const rect = el.getBoundingClientRect()
+    let top = 0
+    let bottom = window.innerHeight
+    if (scrollerEl) {
+      const r = scrollerEl.getBoundingClientRect()
+      top = r.top
+      bottom = r.top + r.height
+    }
+    const isInView = rect.bottom > top && rect.top < bottom
+
+    const reveal = makeReveal(el)
+    // A reveal that animates height (pop-ups) shifts every trigger below it.
+    // Re-measure as it animates so positions track the real layout instead of
+    // only correcting at the very end. requestRefresh is throttled + deferred to
+    // the next frame, so this won't re-enter a ScrollTrigger callback.
+    reveal.eventCallback("onUpdate", () => ctx.requestRefresh())
+    reveal.pause()
+
+    const baseTrigger = {
+      trigger: el,
+      start: "top bottom",
+      end: "bottom top",
+      scroller: scrollerEl,
+      markers: GSAP_DEBUG,
+      id: GSAP_DEBUG ? debugId : undefined,
+    }
+    // Full behavior: in at the bottom, out at the top, and back on scroll-up.
+    const addReplayTrigger = () =>
+      ScrollTrigger.create({
+        ...baseTrigger,
+        onEnter: () => reveal.play(),
+        onEnterBack: () => reveal.play(),
+        onLeave: () => reveal.reverse(),
+        onLeaveBack: () => reveal.reverse(),
+      })
+
+    if (isInView && !scrollOnly) {
+      // The shared timeline only decides *when* the entrance starts; the reveal
+      // plays independently so the ScrollTrigger can take it over afterwards.
+      ctx.schedule(() => reveal.play(), position)
+      // `once` elements keep their revealed state — no scroll trigger at all.
+      if (!once) ctx.onReady(addReplayTrigger)
+    } else if (isInView) {
+      // scrollOnly + already on screen: no enter crossing will fire, so reveal
+      // now. Keep a trigger for scroll-out unless this is a `once` element.
+      reveal.play()
+      if (!once) addReplayTrigger()
+    } else if (once) {
+      // Off-screen: reveal when first reached, then self-destruct so it never
+      // reverses.
+      ScrollTrigger.create({ ...baseTrigger, once: true, onEnter: () => reveal.play() })
+    } else {
+      addReplayTrigger()
+    }
+  }, { dependencies: [] })
+}

src/app/_providers/GsapProvicer.tsx

@@ -9,11 +9,32 @@ gsap.registerPlugin(useGSAP)
 gsap.registerPlugin(ScrollTrigger)
 gsap.registerPlugin(SplitText)
 gsap.registerPlugin(GSDevTools)
+
+// iOS Safari shows/hides its address bar at the scroll extremes, which resizes
+// the viewport and makes ScrollTrigger refresh + fire spurious onLeave/onEnter
+// toggles (text animating out at the bottom and not coming back). Ignoring those
+// mobile-toolbar resizes keeps the real enter/leave reverse behavior intact.
+ScrollTrigger.config({ ignoreMobileResize: true })
+
+// Flip to true to draw ScrollTrigger start/end markers on every animated
+// element and mount the GSDevTools timeline scrubber. Handy for seeing exactly
+// where each card's enter/exit lines sit relative to the viewport.
+export const GSAP_DEBUG = false
 const GsapContext = createContext<{
+  // Add a real animation (with its own duration) to the entrance timeline.
   addAnimation: (
     animation: gsap.core.TimelineChild,
     position: gsap.Position
   ) => void,
+  // Schedule a zero-duration callback at `position` — used to *start* an
+  // independent reveal tween so the timeline only orchestrates timing.
+  schedule: (fn: () => void, position: gsap.Position) => void,
+  // Run `cb` once the entrance is done (timeline complete or first user scroll).
+  onReady: (cb: () => void) => void,
+  // Re-measure all ScrollTriggers (throttled to once per frame). Call it
+  // whenever an animation changes content height so trigger positions stay
+  // aligned with the real layout.
+  requestRefresh: () => void,
   resetTimeline: () => void,
   resumeTimeline: () => void,
   getScroller: () => Element | Window | null
@@ -70,29 +91,104 @@ export default function GsapProvider({ children }: { children: ReactNode }) {
     // }
     return scrollerRef.current
   }, [])
+  const devToolsCreated = useRef(false)
   useGSAP(() => {
     if (!tl.current) {
       tl.current = gsap.timeline({ paused: true })
     }
+    if (GSAP_DEBUG && tl.current && !devToolsCreated.current) {
+      devToolsCreated.current = true
+      GSDevTools.create({ animation: tl.current })
+    }
     return () => { console.log("gsap cleanup") }
   })
 
   const addAnimation = useCallback((animation: gsap.core.TimelineChild, position: gsap.Position) => {
-    console.log("add animation to:", position, tl.current !== undefined)
     tl.current?.add(animation, position);
   },[])
+  const schedule = useCallback((fn: () => void, position: gsap.Position) => {
+    tl.current?.add(fn, position)
+  },[])
+
+  // Handoff: fire registered callbacks once, when the entrance finishes.
+  const readyFired = useRef(false)
+  const readyCbs = useRef<Array<() => void>>([])
+  const fireReady = useCallback(() => {
+    if (readyFired.current) return
+    readyFired.current = true
+    readyCbs.current.forEach((cb) => cb())
+    readyCbs.current = []
+  },[])
+  const onReady = useCallback((cb: () => void) => {
+    if (readyFired.current) cb()
+    else readyCbs.current.push(cb)
+  },[])
+
+  // Throttle ScrollTrigger.refresh() to once per frame so the ResizeObserver
+  // can fire freely while content height animates.
+  const refreshQueued = useRef(false)
+  const scheduleRefresh = useCallback(() => {
+    if (refreshQueued.current) return
+    refreshQueued.current = true
+    requestAnimationFrame(() => {
+      refreshQueued.current = false
+      ScrollTrigger.refresh()
+    })
+  },[])
+
+  const scrollCleanup = useRef<(() => void) | null>(null)
+  const resizeObserver = useRef<ResizeObserver | null>(null)
+
   const resetTimeline = useCallback(() => {
     tl.current?.kill()
     tl.current?.revert()
     ScrollTrigger.getAll().forEach(st => st.kill())
+    resizeObserver.current?.disconnect()
+    scrollCleanup.current?.()
+    scrollCleanup.current = null
+    readyFired.current = false
+    readyCbs.current = []
     tl.current = gsap.timeline({paused:true})
   },[])
+
   const resumeTimeline = useCallback(() => {
-    console.log("resuming timeline:",tl.current)
+    const t = tl.current
-    tl.current?.resume()
+    if (!t) return
-  },[])
+    // When the orchestrated entrance finishes, hand off to scroll control and
+    // realign triggers against the now-settled layout.
+    t.eventCallback("onComplete", () => { fireReady(); ScrollTrigger.refresh() })
+
+    const scroller = getScroller()
+    // If the user scrolls before the entrance finishes, snap it to the end and
+    // switch to scroll control so the timeline and ScrollTriggers never fight
+    // over the same elements.
+    scrollCleanup.current?.()
+    const onFirstScroll = () => { t.progress(1); fireReady() }
+    scroller?.addEventListener("scroll", onFirstScroll, { once: true, passive: true })
+    scrollCleanup.current = () => scroller?.removeEventListener("scroll", onFirstScroll)
+
+    // Continuously realign triggers while content height changes — entrance
+    // growth, scroll-driven collapses, late-loading media.
+    if (scroller instanceof Element) {
+      const target = scroller.firstElementChild ?? scroller
+      resizeObserver.current?.disconnect()
+      resizeObserver.current = new ResizeObserver(scheduleRefresh)
+      resizeObserver.current.observe(target)
+    }
+
+    t.resume()
+  },[getScroller, fireReady, scheduleRefresh])
+
+  // Fonts/markdown/images loading also change content height after the triggers
+  // were created; refresh so start/end stay aligned with the real card sizes.
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const refresh = () => ScrollTrigger.refresh()
+    window.addEventListener("load", refresh)
+    document.fonts?.ready.then(refresh).catch(() => {})
+    return () => window.removeEventListener("load", refresh)
+  }, [])
   return (
-    <GsapContext.Provider value={{ addAnimation, resetTimeline, resumeTimeline, getScroller }}>
+    <GsapContext.Provider value={{ addAnimation, schedule, onReady, requestRefresh: scheduleRefresh, resetTimeline, resumeTimeline, getScroller }}>
       {children}
     </GsapContext.Provider>
   )

src/app/projects/page.tsx

@@ -41,10 +41,10 @@ export default function ProjectsPage() {
           <Card.AnimatedCard position={i + 1.2} key={project.id}>
             <Card.CardHeader>
               <div className="flex items-start justify-between gap-2 flex-wrap">
-                <AnimateTextIn position={i + 1.4} animation="slide"><Card.CardTitle>{project.title}</Card.CardTitle></AnimateTextIn>
+                <AnimateTextIn once position={i + 1.4} animation="slide"><Card.CardTitle>{project.title}</Card.CardTitle></AnimateTextIn>
                 <div className="flex gap-2 flex-wrap">
                   {project.sourceType && (
-                    <AnimatePopUp position={i + 2} duration={2}>
+                    <AnimatePopUp position={i + 2} duration={2} once>
                       <Badge variant={project.sourceType === "open" ? "secondary" : "outline"}>
                         {project.sourceType === "open" ? "Open Source" : "Closed Source"}
                       </Badge>
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ export default function ProjectsPage() {
               <Card.CardContent className="flex flex-col gap-3">
                 {project.description && (
                   <div className="prose prose-sm dark:prose-invert max-w-none text-muted-foreground">
-                    <AnimatePopUp position={i + 1.4} duration={10}>
+                    <AnimatePopUp once position={i + 1.4} duration={10}>
                       <Markdown remarkPlugins={[remarkGfm]}>{project.description}</Markdown>
                     </AnimatePopUp>
                   </div>
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ export default function ProjectsPage() {
                   {project.techStack?.stackItems && project.techStack.stackItems.length > 0 && (
                     <div className="flex flex-wrap gap-1.5">
                       {project.techStack.stackItems.map((item, k) => (
-                        <AnimatePopUp key={k} position={(i + 2) + k * 0.5}>  <StackBadge key={item} item={item} /> </AnimatePopUp>
+                        <AnimatePopUp key={k} position={(i + 2) + k * 0.5} once>  <StackBadge key={item} item={item} /> </AnimatePopUp>
                       ))}
                     </div>
                   )}
@@ -111,6 +111,11 @@ export default function ProjectsPage() {
           <div className="pt-5" />
         </div>
       ))}
+      {/* Scroll runway: lets the last cards' ScrollTrigger exit points be
+          reached past the visible area, so on short viewports the second-to-last
+          card animates out off-screen instead of being frozen mid-exit at the
+          bottom of the scroll. Tune the height if a card is still caught. */}
+      <div aria-hidden className="h-[70dvh] shrink-0" />
     </ScrollArea>
   );
 }

src/components/ui/card.tsx

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-import { useGSAP } from "@gsap/react"; import * as React from "react"
+import * as React from "react"
 import { useRef } from "react";
-import { useGsapContext } from "~/app/_providers/GsapProvicer";
 import gsap from 'gsap'
+import { useReveal } from "~/app/_components/Animated/useReveal";
 import { cn } from "~/lib/utils"
 
 function Card({
@@ -27,40 +27,17 @@ function AnimatedCard({
   position = 0,
   size = "default",
   scrollOnly = false,
+  once = false,
   ...props
-}: React.ComponentProps<"div"> & { size?: "default" | "sm", position?: gsap.Position,  scrollOnly?: boolean }) {
+}: React.ComponentProps<"div"> & { size?: "default" | "sm", position?: gsap.Position,  scrollOnly?: boolean, once?: boolean }) {
-  const gsapContext = useGsapContext()
   const ref = useRef<HTMLDivElement | null>(null)
-  useGSAP(() => {
+  useReveal(ref, {
-    const rect = ref.current?.getBoundingClientRect()
+    position,
-    const scroller = gsapContext?.getScroller()
+    scrollOnly,
-    console.log(scroller)
+    once,
-    let viewportTop = 0
+    debugId: `card-${position}`,
-    let viewportBottom = window.innerHeight
+    makeReveal: (el) => gsap.from(el, { x: -100, opacity: 0, duration: 0.5, paused: true }),
-    if (scroller && scroller instanceof Element) {
-      const scrollerRect = scroller.getBoundingClientRect()
-      viewportTop = scrollerRect.top
-      viewportBottom = scrollerRect.top + scrollerRect.height
-    }
-    const isInView = rect && rect.bottom > viewportTop && rect.top < viewportBottom
-    console.log(isInView)
-    const fromVars = { x: -100, opacity: 0, duration: 0.5 }
-    if (isInView && !scrollOnly) {
-      gsapContext?.addAnimation(gsap.from(ref.current, fromVars), position)
-    } else {
-      gsap.from(ref.current,
-        {
-          ...fromVars,
-          scrollTrigger: {
-            trigger: ref.current,
-            start: 'top bottom',
-            end: 'bottom top',
-            toggleActions: "play reverse play reverse",
-            scroller
-          }
   })
-    }
-  }, { dependencies: [] })
   return (
     <div
       ref={ref}