Dashy Usage Guide

Running the App 🏃‍♂️

Deploying 🚀

  • Get Code: git clone git@github.com:Lissy93/dashy.git and cd dashy
  • Configuration: Fill in you're settings in ./public/conf.yml
  • Install dependencies: yarn
  • Build: yarn build
  • Run: yarn start

Deploying with Docker 🐳

  • Get Code: git clone git@github.com:Lissy93/dashy.git and cd dashy
  • Configuration: Fill in you're settings in ./public/conf.yml
  • Build: docker build -t lissy93/dashy .
  • Start: docker run -it -p 8080:80 --rm --name my-dashboard lissy93/dashy

Developing 🧱

  • Get Code: git clone git@github.com:Lissy93/dashy.git and cd dashy
  • Install dependencies: yarn
  • Start dev server: yarn dev

Configuring 🔧

Config Locations 📍

Configuration files are located in ./public/.

  • ./public/conf.yml - This is the main site configuration file, and is required for the app to work
  • ./public/item-icons - If you're using your own icons, you can choose to store them locally for better load time. You can also use sub-folders to keep things organized

Also within ./public you'll find normal website assets, including favicon.ico, manifest.json, robots.txt and web-icons/*. There's no need to modify these, but you can do so if you wish.

The Conf File 📄

All app config is specified in /public/conf.yml (in YAML Format).
All fields are optional, unless otherwise stated.

Example Configs: https://gist.github.com/Lissy93/000f712a5ce98f212817d20bc16bab10

pageInfo

  • title - String: The page title and heading
  • description - String: Short description visible under the heading
  • navLinks - Array: Links to display in the nav bar, an array or objects containing a title and link:
    • title - String: Text to display
    • path - String: URL or relative link
  • footerText - String: Text to display in the footer

appConfig (optional)

  • backgroundImg - String: Path to an optional full-screen app background image. This can be either remote (http) or local (/). Note that this will slow down initial load
  • enableFontAwesome - Boolean: Where true is enabled, if left blank font-awesome will be enabled only if required by 1 or more icons
  • fontAwesomeKey - String: If you have a font-awesome key, then you can use it here and make use of premium icons. It is a 10-digit alpha-numeric string from you're FA kit URL (e.g. 13014ae648)
  • theme- String: The default theme for first load (you can change this later from the UI)
  • cssThemes - String[]: An array of custom theme names which can be used in the theme switcher dropdown - See theming below
  • externalStyleSheet - String or String[] - Either a URL to an external stylesheet or an array or URLs, which can be applied as themes within the UI

sections - Section[]: (required) An array of sections - See section below

section

  • name - String: (required) The title of that section
  • items - Item[]: (required) An array of items - See item below
  • displayData: An object with the following fields (all optional)
    • collapsed - Boolean: If true, the section will be collapsed initially (defaults to false)
    • rows - Int: Number of rows the section should span vertically, e.g. 2 (defaults to 1)
    • cols - Int: Number of columns the section should span horizontally, e.g. 2 (defaults to 1)
    • color - String: A custom accent color for the section, as a hex code or HTML color (e.g. #fff)
    • customStyles - String: Custom CSS properties that should be applied to that section, e.g. border: 2px dashed #ff0000;
    • itemSize - String: Specify the size for items within this group, either small, medium or large

item

  • title - String: The text to display on the item
  • description - String: Additional info which is shown in the tooltip on hover
  • icon - String: Icons can be either a local image, remote image, or a Font Awesome icon, see below for more info
  • url - String: The full path to be opened on click (e.g. https://example.com)
  • target - String: The method in which the item will be opened, either newtab, sametab or iframe
  • color - String: A custom color the the item, as a hex code or HTML color (e.g. #fff)
  • backgroundColor - String: A custom fill color for the the item's background, also as a hex code

icon Examples:

  • To use use a remote image, just use it's full URL, e.g. https://i.ibb.co/710B3Yc/space-invader-x256.png
  • To use a local image, save it in ./public/item-icons/image.png or ./public/my-category/item-icons/image.png and specify the image as image.png or my-category/image.png. For best results, use either png or svg formats.
  • To automatically fetch an icon from items URL, just set icon field to favicon
  • To use a Font-Awesome icon, specify the category (fas, fab, far, fal orfad), followed by a space then fa- and the icon name. For example: fas fa-rocket, fab fa-monero, fal fa-duck or fad fa-glass-whiskey-rocks. Note that light (fal) and duotone (fad) icons are only available with Font Awesome Pro, to use this, you need to set you're kit ID under appConfig.fontAwesomeKey.

Theming 🎨

The app comes with a number of built-in themes, but it's also easy to write you're own. Once you've done so you can select you're theme fro the dropdown menu, and like other visual settings, you're chosen theme is saved in local storage, so will load automatically when you next visit the page.

The theme switching is done by simply changing the data-theme attribute on the root DOM element, which can then be targeted by CSS. First off, in order for the theme to show up in the theme switcher, it needs to be added to the config file, under appConfig.cssThemes, either as a string, or an array of strings for multiple themes. For example:

appConfig:
  cssThemes: ['tiger', 'another-theme']

You can now create a block to target you're theme with html[data-theme='my-theme']{} and set some styles. The easiest method is by setting CSS variables, but you can also directly override elements by their selector. As an example, see the built-in CSS themes.

html[data-theme='tiger'] {
  --primary: #f58233;
  --item-group-background: #0b1021;
}

Alternatively, you can load an external stylesheet. Pass either a URL to a .css file, or an array or URLs to appConfig.externalStyleSheet. The stylesheet will then be pre-loaded, and can then be enabled from the UI using the theme switcher.

appConfig:
  externalStyleSheet: 'https://example.com/my-stylesheet.css'