chore: cleaned up front page

note: pdfs are not added yet.

src/App.tsx

@@ -4,8 +4,7 @@
 import { Routes, Route, Link } from 'react-router'
 import './App.css'
 import Home from './pages/Home/Home.tsx'
-import Robot from './pages/Robot/Robot.tsx';
-import ConnectedRobots from './pages/ConnectedRobots/ConnectedRobots.tsx'
+import UserManual from './pages/Manuals/Manuals.tsx';
 import VisProg from "./pages/VisProgPage/VisProg.tsx";
 import {useState} from "react";
 import Logging from "./components/Logging/Logging.tsx";
@@ -26,8 +25,7 @@ function App(){
           <Routes>
             <Route path="/" element={<Home />} />
             <Route path="/editor" element={<VisProg />} />
-            <Route path="/robot" element={<Robot />} />
-            <Route path="/ConnectedRobots" element={<ConnectedRobots />} />
+            <Route path="/user_manual" element={<UserManual />} />
         </Routes>
         </main>
         {showLogs && <Logging />}

src/pages/ConnectedRobots/ConnectedRobots.tsx

@@ -1,64 +0,0 @@
-// This program has been developed by students from the bachelor Computer Science at Utrecht
-// University within the Software Project course.
-// © Copyright Utrecht University (Department of Information and Computing Sciences)
-import { useEffect, useState } from 'react'
-import { API_BASE_URL } from '../../config/api.ts';
-
-/**
- * Displays the current connection status of a robot in real time.
- *
- * Opens an SSE connection to the backend (`/robot/ping_stream`) that emits
- * simple boolean JSON messages (`true` or `false`). Updates automatically when
- * the robot connects or disconnects.
- *
- * @returns A React element showing the current robot connection status.
- */
-export default function ConnectedRobots() {
-  
-  /**
-   * The current connection state:
-   * - `true`: Robot is connected.
-   * - `false`: Robot is not connected.
-   * - `null`: Connection status is unknown (initial check in progress).
-   */
-  const [connected, setConnected] = useState<boolean | null>(null);
-
-  useEffect(() => {
-    // Open a Server-Sent Events (SSE) connection to receive live ping updates.
-    // We're expecting a stream of data like that looks like this: `data = False` or `data = True`
-    const eventSource = new EventSource(`${API_BASE_URL}/robot/ping_stream`);
-    eventSource.onmessage = (event) => {
-    
-      // Expecting messages in JSON format: `true` or `false`
-      console.log("received message:", event.data);
-      try {
-        const data = JSON.parse(event.data);
-
-        try {
-          setConnected(data)
-        }
-        catch {
-          console.log("couldnt extract connected from incoming ping data")
-        }
-
-      } catch {
-        console.log("Ping message not in correct format:", event.data);
-      }
-    };
-
-    // Clean up the SSE connection when the component unmounts.
-    return () => eventSource.close();
-  }, []);
-
-  return (
-    <div>
-      <h1>Is robot currently connected?</h1>
-      <div>
-        <h2>Robot is currently: {connected == null ? "checking..." : (connected ? "connected! 🟢" : "not connected... 🔴")} </h2>
-        <h3>
-          {connected == null ? "If checking continues, make sure CB is properly loaded with robot at least once." : ""}
-        </h3>
-      </div>
-    </div>
-  );
-}

src/pages/Home/Home.module.css

@@ -26,4 +26,52 @@ University within the Software Project course.
   display: flex;
   flex-direction: column;
   gap: 1em;
+}
+
+.links {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-direction: row; /* Horizontal layout looks more like a dashboard */
+  gap: 1.5rem;
+  justify-content: center;
+  margin-top: 2rem;
+}
+
+.navCard {
+  display: flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  justify-content: center;
+  padding: 1rem 2rem;
+  min-width: 180px;
+  background-color: #ffffff;
+  color: #333;
+  text-decoration: none;
+  font-weight: 600;
+  border-radius: 12px;
+  border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;
+  box-shadow: 0 4px 6px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05);
+  transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;
+}
+
+/* Hover effects */
+.navCard:hover {
+  transform: translateY(-4px);
+  box-shadow: 0 10px 15px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
+  border-color: #ffcd00; /* UU Yellow accent */
+  color: #000;
+}
+
+/* Specific styling for the logo container */
+.logoPepperScaling {
+  display: flex;
+  justify-content: center;
+  transition: transform 0.3s ease;
+}
+
+.logoPepperScaling:hover {
+  transform: scale(1.05);
+}
+
+.logopepper {
+  height: 120px;
+  width: auto;
 }

src/pages/Home/Home.tsx

@@ -16,15 +16,20 @@ import styles from './Home.module.css'
 function Home() {
   return (
     <div className={`flex-col ${styles.gapXl}`}>
-      <div className="logoPepperScaling">
-        <a href="https://git.science.uu.nl/ics/sp/2025/n25b" target="_blank">
-          <img src={pepperLogo} className="logopepper" alt="Pepper logo" />
+      <div className={styles.logoPepperScaling}>
+        <a href="https://git.science.uu.nl/ics/sp/2025/n25b" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">
+          <img src={pepperLogo} className={styles.logopepper} alt="Pepper logo" />
         </a>
       </div>
+      
       <div className={styles.links}>
-        <Link to={"/robot"}>Robot Interaction →</Link>
-        <Link to={"/editor"}>Editor →</Link>
-        <Link to={"/ConnectedRobots"}>Connected Robots →</Link>
+        {/* Program Editor is now first */}
+        <Link to="/editor" className={styles.navCard}>
+          Program Editor
+        </Link>
+        <Link to="/user_manual" className={styles.navCard}>
+          User and Developer Manual
+        </Link>
       </div>
     </div>
   )

src/pages/Manuals/Manuals.module.css

@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+/* This program has been developed by students from the bachelor Computer Science at Utrecht
+University within the Software Project course.
+© Copyright Utrecht University (Department of Information and Computing Sciences)
+*/
+
+.manualContainer {
+  width: 100%;
+  max-width: 800px;
+  margin: 4rem auto;
+  padding: 2rem;
+  font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif;
+  text-align: center;
+}
+
+.manualHeader h1 {
+  font-size: 2.2rem;
+  margin-bottom: 0.5rem;
+}
+
+.buttonStack {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-direction: column; /* Stacks the manual sections vertically */
+  gap: 3rem;
+  margin-top: 3rem;
+  align-items: center;
+}
+
+.manualEntry {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-direction: column;
+  align-items: center;
+  gap: 0.5rem;
+}
+
+.manualEntry h3 {
+  margin: 0;
+  font-size: 1.4rem;
+}
+
+.manualEntry p {
+  color: #666;
+  margin-bottom: 0.5rem;
+}
+
+.downloadBtn {
+  display: inline-block;
+  background-color: #ffffff; /* White background as requested */
+  color: #000;
+  padding: 1rem 2rem;
+  border-radius: 50px;
+  text-decoration: none;
+  font-weight: 700;
+  font-size: 1.1rem;
+  width: 280px; /* Fixed width for uniform appearance */
+  box-shadow: 0 4px 15px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
+  transition: transform 0.2s ease, background-color 0.2s ease, color 0.2s ease;
+}
+
+.downloadBtn:hover {
+  transform: translateY(-3px);
+  box-shadow: 0 6px 20px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4);
+  background-color: #247284; /* Teal hover as requested */
+  color: #ffffff; /* Text turns white on teal for better contrast */
+}
+
+.dateBadge {
+  display: inline-block;
+  margin-top: 1rem;
+  padding: 0.4rem 1rem;
+  background-color: #f0f0f0;
+  border-radius: 4px;
+  font-size: 0.85rem;
+  color: #888;
+}
+
+.divider {
+  margin-top: 4rem;
+  border: 0;
+  border-top: 1px solid #eee;
+  width: 60%;
+}

src/pages/Manuals/Manuals.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+// This program has been developed by students from the bachelor Computer Science at Utrecht
+// University within the Software Project course.
+// © Copyright Utrecht University (Department of Information and Computing Sciences)
+import styles from './Manuals.module.css';
+
+export default function Manuals() {
+  const userManualPath = "/UserManual.pdf"; 
+  const developerManualPath = "/DeveloperManual.pdf"; 
+
+  return (
+    <div className={styles.manualContainer}>
+      <header className={styles.manualHeader}>
+        <h1>Documentation & Manuals</h1>
+
+      <span className={styles.dateBadge}>Last Updated: January 2026</span>
+      </header>
+
+      <div className={styles.buttonStack}>
+        <div className={styles.manualEntry}>
+          <h3>User Manual</h3>
+          <p>Manual for Users of the Pepper+ Software </p>
+          <a href={userManualPath} download="UserManual.pdf" className={styles.downloadBtn}>
+            Download User Manual
+          </a>
+        </div>
+
+        <div className={styles.manualEntry}>
+          <h3>Developer Manual</h3>
+          <p>Technical documentation for future developers.</p>
+          <a href={developerManualPath} download="DeveloperManual.pdf" className={styles.downloadBtn}>
+            Download Developer Manual
+          </a>
+        </div>
+      </div>
+
+      <hr className={styles.divider} />
+    </div> 
+  );
+}

src/pages/Robot/Robot.tsx

@@ -1,134 +0,0 @@
-// This program has been developed by students from the bachelor Computer Science at Utrecht
-// University within the Software Project course.
-// © Copyright Utrecht University (Department of Information and Computing Sciences)
-import { useState, useEffect, useRef } from 'react'
-import { API_BASE_URL } from '../../config/api.ts';
-
-/**
- * Displays a live robot interaction panel with user input, conversation history,
- * and real-time updates from the robot backend via Server-Sent Events (SSE).
- *
- * @returns A React element rendering the interactive robot UI.
- */
-export default function Robot() {
-  /** The text message currently entered by the user. */
-  const [message, setMessage] = useState('');
-
-  /** Whether the robot’s microphone or listening mode is currently active. */
-  const [listening, setListening] = useState(false);
-  /** The ongoing conversation history as a sequence of user/assistant messages. */
-  const [conversation, setConversation] = useState<
-  {"role": "user" | "assistant", "content": string}[]>([])
-  /** Reference to the scrollable conversation container for auto-scrolling. */
-  const conversationRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement | null>(null);
-  /**
-   * Index used to force refresh the SSE connection or clear conversation.
-   * Incrementing this value triggers a reset of the live data stream.
-   */
-  const [conversationIndex, setConversationIndex] = useState(0);
-
-  /**
-   * Sends a message to the robot backend.
-   *
-   * Makes a POST request to `/message` with the user’s text.
-   * The backend may respond with confirmation or error information.
-   */
-  const sendMessage = async () => {
-    try {
-      const response = await fetch(`${API_BASE_URL}/message`, {
-        method: "POST",
-        headers: {
-          "Content-Type": "application/json",
-        },
-        body: JSON.stringify({ message }),
-      });
-      const data = await response.json();
-      console.log(data);
-    } catch (error) {
-      console.error("Error sending message: ", error);
-    }
-  };
-
-   /**
-   * Establishes a persistent Server-Sent Events (SSE) connection
-   * to receive real-time updates from the robot backend.
-   *
-   * Handles three event types:
-   * - `voice_active`: whether the robot is currently listening.
-   * - `speech`: recognized user speech input.
-   * - `llm_response`: the robot’s language model-generated reply.
-   *
-   * The connection resets whenever `conversationIndex` changes.
-   */
-  useEffect(() => {
-    const eventSource = new EventSource(`${API_BASE_URL}/sse`);
-
-    eventSource.onmessage = (event) => {
-      try {
-        const data = JSON.parse(event.data);
-        if ("voice_active" in data) setListening(data.voice_active);
-        if ("speech" in data) setConversation(conversation => [...conversation, {"role": "user", "content": data.speech}]);
-        if ("llm_response" in data) setConversation(conversation => [...conversation, {"role": "assistant", "content": data.llm_response}]);
-      } catch {
-        console.log("Unparsable SSE message:", event.data);
-      }
-    };
-
-    return () => {
-      eventSource.close();
-    };
-  }, [conversationIndex]);
-
-  /**
-   * Automatically scrolls the conversation view to the bottom
-   * whenever a new message is added.
-   */
-  useEffect(() => {
-    if (!conversationRef || !conversationRef.current) return;
-    conversationRef.current.scrollTop = conversationRef.current.scrollHeight;
-  }, [conversation]);
-
-  return (
-    <>
-      <h1>Robot interaction</h1>
-      <h2>Force robot speech</h2>
-      <div className={"flex-row gap-md justify-center"}>
-        <input
-          type="text"
-          value={message}
-          onChange={(e) => setMessage(e.target.value)}
-          onKeyDown={(e) => e.key === "Enter" && sendMessage().then(() => setMessage(""))}
-          placeholder="Enter a message"
-        />
-        <button onClick={sendMessage}>Speak</button>
-      </div>
-      <div className={"flex-col gap-lg align-center"}>
-        <h2>Conversation</h2>
-        <p>Listening {listening ? "🟢" : "🔴"}</p>
-        <div style={{ maxHeight: "200px", maxWidth: "600px", overflowY: "auto"}} ref={conversationRef}>
-          {conversation.map((item, i) => (
-            <p key={i}
-              style={{
-                backgroundColor: item["role"] == "user"
-                  ? "color-mix(in oklab, canvas, blue 20%)"
-                  : "color-mix(in oklab, canvas, gray 20%)",
-                whiteSpace: "pre-line",
-              }}
-              className={"round-md padding-md"}
-            >{item["content"]}</p>
-          ))}
-        </div>
-        <div className={"flex-row gap-md justify-center"}>
-          <button onClick={() => {
-            setConversationIndex((conversationIndex) => conversationIndex + 1)
-            setConversation([])
-          }}>Reset</button>
-          <button onClick={() => {
-            setConversationIndex((conversationIndex) => conversationIndex == -1 ? 0 : -1)
-            setConversation([])
-          }}>{conversationIndex == -1 ? "Start" : "Stop"}</button>
-        </div>
-      </div>
-    </>
-  );
-}