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Add line numbers toggle on code snippets 🔢

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
85/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
javascript, react
Domain
frontend

Research direction

Start in client/src/components/Board/TaskCard.jsx and read how code snippets are rendered with react-syntax-highlighter. Add a toggle for its built-in line-number display; done means users can show and hide line numbers on snippets without triggering the task card.

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Description

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Add line numbers toggle on code snippets 🔢

File: client/src/components/Board/TaskCard.jsx

Code snippets show no line numbers 💀
Hard to reference specific lines fr!!

Fix:
const [showLineNums, setShowLineNums] = useState(false)

<button
onClick={(e) => {
e.stopPropagation()
setShowLineNums(v => !v)
}}
className="text-[10px] text-[#555]
hover:text-purple-400 transition">
{showLineNums ? '# hide' : '# lines'}

<SyntaxHighlighter
showLineNumbers={showLineNums}
...

~6 lines! showLineNumbers built into
react-syntax-highlighter ✅
No backend needed 🎯

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