Dashboard

⚠️ This project is deprecated! ⚠️

Due to other projects taking precedence, I am no longer able to support, much less continue development, on this project.

Thank you to everyone who contributed, created issues, and much more.

Consider forking or using minidash instead. minidash is a simpler reinterpretation of this project, complete with configuration hot-reloading and full support for customization via handlebar templates.

Dashboard is just that - a dashboard. It's inspired by SUI and has all the same features as SUI, such as simple customization through JSON-files and a handy search bar to search the internet more efficiently.

Features

So what makes this project different from (or even better than) SUI?

• "Display URL" functionality (The URL displayed for apps can differ from the actual URL)
• Categorization for apps
• Themes and search providers can be changed using JSON
• Imprint functionality

Installation

The recommended way of installation is using Docker. You could also build your own version from source, but do proceed at your own risk.

Docker

The Docker image is built on top of this image, as it's based on Nginx and also provides functionality to purge the Cloudflare cache every time the container restarts (though this functionality is entirely optional).

The Docker image is available on both DockerHub and the GitHub Container Repository (GHCR, see "packages").

Using the Docker CLI

$ docker run -d \
  -e CLOUDFLARE_ZONE_ID=[OPTIONAL CLOUDFLARE V4 ZONE ID] \
  -e CLOUDFLARE_PURGE_TOKEN=[OPTIONAL CLOUDFLARE PURGE TOKEN] \
  -v $(pwd)/data:/app/data \
  -p 8080:80 \
  --name=dashboard \
  phntxx/dashboard

Using Docker-Compose

version: "3"

services:
  dashboard:
    image: phntxx/dashboard:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - CLOUDFLARE_ZONE_ID=[OPTIONAL CLOUDFLARE V4 ZONE ID]
      - CLOUDFLARE_PURGE_TOKEN=[OPTIONAL CLOUDFLARE PURGE TOKEN]
    volumes:
      - [path to data directory]:/app/data
    ports:
      - 8080:80

Manual installation (Linux)

Clone and build

git clone https://github.com/phntxx/dashboard.git
cd dashboard
yarn
yarn build

Move the files

You can move the files to any different location. This is an example, that the rest of the guide will work with.

mkdir /var/www/dashboard/html
cp -r build/ data/ src/ /var/www/dashboard/html

Configure users and permissions

Only do the next two steps if your www-data user does not exist. Check grep www-data /etc/passwd

groupadd www-data
useradd -a -G www-data www-data
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/dashboard

Configure nginx

Edit the /etc/nginx/nginx.conf file. Append the server {...} section as shown below, or you can refer to example nginx.conf config if in doubt. Be mindful of the user www-data if you're running other services.

user www-data;

# ...

http {
    # ...

    # dashboard server listener
    server {
        listen 80;
        server_name localhost; # edit as needed if using your own domain
        root /app/;

        location / {
           index index.html index.htm;
        }
    }
}

Last step

As a last step, reload nginx systemctl reload nginx Now you should be able to visit your dashboard at http://localhost/

Configuration

There's a couple of things you can / need to configure to get Dashboard to look and behave just as you want it to.

If you don't require a specific component, just remove the file from your data directory. Dashboard won't render the components whose files are not present. With no files present, only the greeter will be shown.

If you're running into problems with configuring your files and you can't seem to get them to work, feel free to open an issue, I'd be happy to help! 😄

Apps

To show the apps you want to show, change data/apps.json to resemble the following:

{
  "categories": [
    {
      "name": "[Name of the category]",
      "items": [
        {
          "name": "[Name of the app]",
          "displayURL": "[URL you want to show]",
          "url": "[URL to redirect to]",
          "icon": "[Icon code]",
          "newTab": true
        },
        // ...
      ]
    },
    // ...
  ],
  "apps": [
    {
      "name": "[Name of the app]",
      "displayURL": "[URL you want to show]",
      "url": "[URL to redirect to]",
      "icon": "[Icon code]",
      "newTab": false
    },
    // ...
  ]
}

Wherein either apps or categories can be omitted as needed. newTab is optional and defaults to false.

To find icons, simply go to the Material Design Icon Library and copy one of the codes for an icon there. If the icon's name contains a space, replace it with an underscore "_".

Bookmarks

To show bookmarks, data/bookmarks.json needs to resemble the following:

{
  "groups": [
    {
      "name": "[Group Name]",
      "items": [
        {
          "name": "[Bookmark Name]",
          "url": "[Bookmark URL]",
          "newTab": true
        },
        // ...
      ]
    },
    // ...
  ]
}

newTab is optional and defaults to false.

Themes

In order to customize theming, data/themes.json needs to resemble this:

{
  "themes": [
    {
      "label": "[Theme Name]",
      "value": "[Number of the theme]",
      "mainColor": "[Main Color as 6-character hex code]",
      "accentColor": "[Accent Color as 6-character hex code]",
      "backgroundColor": "[Background Color as 6-character hex code]"
    },
    // ...
  ]
}

Search Providers

For search providers to work, make sure your data/search.json resembles the following:

{
  "providers": [
    {
      "name": "[Name of the website]",
      "url": "[Link that processes searches on that website]",
      "prefix": "[A custom prefix (e.g. '/test')]"
    },
    // ...
  ]
}

You can also customize whether or not the search bar automatically focusses on render by adding the following to search.json, on the same level where properties like providers are located:

  "autoFocus": true,

Imprint

In order for the imprint-modal to show up, make sure your data/imprint.json resembles the following:

{
  "imprint": {
    "name": {
      "text": "[Name]",
      "link": "[Link to the name (to e.g. a portfolio)]"
    },
    "address": {
      "text": "[Address]",
      "link": "[Link for the address (to e.g. Google Maps)]"
    },
    "phone": {
      "text": "[Phone number]",
      "link": "[Link for the phone number]"
    },
    "email": {
      "text": "[Email address]",
      "link": "[Link for the email address (e.g. for 'mailto')]"
    },
    "url": {
      "text": "[URL]",
      "link": "[Link for the URL]"
    },
    "text": "[Text for the imprint]"
  }
}

❗ I haven't quite tested this. I'm not a lawyer and I'm not responsible if you're sued for using this incorrectly.

Contributing

Please see Contributing page.