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feat: improve chat page cold start experience#140

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Summary

  • Hide sidebar when empty: Do not render the Sessions Sidebar when there are no sessions. Once the user sends their first message, the session is created and the sidebar appears automatically.
  • Schema-aware suggestions: Replace hardcoded suggested questions with dynamically generated ones based on actual table names (e.g. orders → "Show daily order trends") and column names (e.g. created_at → "Trend in the last 7 days"). Falls back to hardcoded suggestions when schema is unavailable.
  • Input guidance: Updated placeholder to Ask about your data… Try: "Top 10 users by revenue last week" and auto-focus the input textarea on page load.

Closes #139

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  • Open chat page with no existing sessions — sidebar should be hidden, suggestions and input visible
  • Verify suggestions reflect actual database tables/columns when schema is loaded
  • Verify fallback suggestions appear when schema is unavailable or loading
  • Send a message — session should be created and sidebar should appear
  • Delete all sessions — should return to welcome state with sidebar hidden
  • Verify input textarea is auto-focused on page load
  • Verify new placeholder text is displayed
  • Test compact mode (copilot) — sidebar hide logic uses same conditional, verified in code

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feat: improve chat page cold start experience
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- Hide sessions sidebar when no sessions exist, auto-show on first message
- Generate schema-aware suggested questions based on actual table/column names
- Add welcoming placeholder text and auto-focus input on page load

Closes #139
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Verified locally:

  • Sidebar hidden when no sessions
  • New placeholder text displayed
  • Input auto-focused on page load
  • Fallback suggestions shown when no database selected
  • Sidebar appears after sending a message
  • Sidebar disappears after deleting all sessions

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LGTM

@dory-finn dory-finn merged commit 203e4c2 into main Apr 2, 2026
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@solarhell solarhell deleted the feat/chat-cold-start-improvements branch April 3, 2026 03:37
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