Fix: Recent Activity section on Dashboard shows hardcoded fake data instead of real events

[Ananya-CM]

🐛 Bug Report

Area: Dashboard — Recent Activity Section
Type: Bug — Hardcoded Static Data
Priority: Medium

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📌 Description

The Recent Activity section on the Dashboard
page displays completely hardcoded fake events
that never change, regardless of what the user
actually does in the app.

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🔍 Proof — Hardcoded Data in Source Code

In frontend/app/dashboard/page.tsx:

<ul className="text-sm text-slate-600 space-y-2">
  <li>✔ New sprint created</li>
  <li>✔ Task updated in Project Alpha</li>
  <li>✔ Team member joined workspace</li>
</ul>

These 3 items are hardcoded strings — they
never update based on real user activity.

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❌ Current Behaviour

• Every user sees identical fake activity:
  "New sprint created", "Task updated in
  Project Alpha", "Team member joined workspace"
• Activity never changes regardless of
  what the user actually does
• Completely disconnected from real data

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✅ Expected Behaviour

• Show real recent activity from the user's
  workspace (project creation, updates etc.)
• If no activity exists yet, show a clean
  empty state: "No recent activity yet"
• Activity list should reflect actual
  user actions

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💡 Proposed Fix

In frontend/app/dashboard/page.tsx:

1. Replace hardcoded <ul> with dynamic state:

const [activity, setActivity] = useState
  { text: string; time: string }[]
>([]);

2. Fetch recent activity from Supabase
   projects table (recently created/updated):

useEffect(() => {
  const fetchActivity = async () => {
    if (!supabase) return;
    const { data: { session } } = 
      await supabase.auth.getSession();
    if (!session) return;
    const { data } = await supabase
      .from("projects")
      .select("name, created_at")
      .order("created_at", { ascending: false })
      .limit(5);
    if (data) {
      setActivity(data.map(p => ({
        text: `Project "${p.name}" created`,
        time: new Date(p.created_at)
          .toLocaleDateString()
      })));
    }
  };
  fetchActivity();
}, []);

3. Show empty state if no activity found

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📂 File to Change

frontend/app/dashboard/page.tsx — only this file

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🖥️ Steps to Reproduce

1. Log in to the app
2. Navigate to /dashboard
3. Scroll to "Recent Activity" section
4. Observe the same 3 fake hardcoded items
5. Create a new project — activity
   section still shows same fake items

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@Shriii19
I'd like to work on this issue.
Could you please assign it to me?

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[vaishnavirrapolu-06]

Hi @Shriii19, I would like to work on this issue. Could you please assign it to me?