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Live Instances: Demo 1 (Live Demo) ┆ Demo 2 (Dashy Links) ┆ Demo 3 (Dev Preview)

Screenshots: Checkout the Showcase, to see example dashboards from the community

Spin up your own demo: or docker run -p 8080:80 lissy93/dashy

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Dashy is configured through a YAML file, located at ./public/conf.yml. In addition, you can find a complete list of available options in the Configuring Docs. The config can also be edited and saved directly through the UI.

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Dashy comes pre-bundled with several built-in themes, which you can preview, apply and edit through the UI. With the theme configurator and support for custom CSS, everything is in place to quickly develop your own unique-looking dashboard.

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Both sections and items can have an icon associated with them, defined under the icon attribute. With several different icon packs supported, you’ll be able to find the perfect thumbnail for any app or service.

The following icon types are supported:

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Dashy has an optional feature to check if each app/ service is up and responding, then display a small status indicator icon. Hovering over it will show additional stats like response time and status code.

Status indicators can be globally enabled by setting appConfig.statusCheck: true or enabled/ disabled on a per-item basis. Status is checked on page load, but you can allow continuous polling by specifying a time interval between checks, in seconds under appConfig.statusCheckInterval. You can also use a different endpoint for status checking, with statusCheckUrl, and if needed, pass in custom headers under statusCheckHeaders.

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You can display dynamic content from services in the form of widgets. There are several pre-built widgets availible for showing useful info, and integrations with commonly self-hosted services, but you can also easily create your own for almost any app.

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Dashy has full support for secure single-sign-on using Keycloak for secure, easy authentication, see setup docs for a full usage guide.

There is also a basic auth feature, which doesn’t require additional setup. To enable this, add an auth attribute under appConfig, containing an array of users, each with a username, SHA-256 hashed password and optional user type. Basic auth also supports several access control features, including read-only guest access and granular controls.

Other access control systems are also supported, see the Alternative Auth Methods docs.

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As well as the default homepage, there is also:

You can change the view from the UI, using the switch icon in the top-right corner, or select a default view in the config under appConfig.startingView attribute.

Example of Workspace View

Example of Minimal View

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There are several different ways you can launch apps. You can specify the default opening method for any given item under the target attribute or set a site-wide default under appConfig.defaultOpeningMethod. Right-click on an item to item for all options. The following options are supported:

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Quickly finding and launching applications is the primary aim of Dashy. To that end, instant search and customizable keyboard shortcuts are built-in.

To start filtering, start typing—​no need to select the search bar or use any special key. Then use either the tab key or arrow keys to select and move between results, and hit enter to launch the currently selected application.

For apps that you use regularly, you can set a custom keybinding. Use the hotkey parameter on a certain item to specify a numeric key between 0 - 9. You can then launch that app by just pressing that key.

You can also add custom tags to a given item to make finding them based on keywords easier. For example, in the following example, searching for 'Movies' will show 'Plex'

To search the web directly through Dashy, just press enter after typing your query. Options for web search are set under appConfig.webSearch. There is built-in support for 10+ search engines, or use your own custom provider or self-hosted instance. With the web search, you can also define your bangs to redirect results to any given app, website, or search engine, when the query is preceded with a certain character sequence (usually beginning in /, ! or :).

Hit Esc at any time to close any open apps, clear the search field, or hide any modals.

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As well as passing in a YAML config file, you can also configure the app directly through the UI and preview changes live.

To edit any section or item, right-click on it, and select "Edit", or enter the Edit Mode (using the Pen icon in the top-right), then click any part of the page to edit. Changes will be visible immediately but will not be saved until clicking "Save to Disk" or "Save Locally".

Under the config menu, you can export, view, backup, or reset app config and edit the raw config file in a text editor with built-in schema validation. It’s recommended to keep a backup of your config.

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Dashy has an optional built-in feature for securely backing up your config to a hosted cloud service and then restoring it on another instance. This is useful not only for backing up your configuration off-site but also enables Dashy to be used without having to write a YAML config file.

All data is fully E2E encrypted before being sent to the backend (done in CloudBackup.js using crypto.js 's AES method). The data is then sent to a Cloudflare worker and stored in a KV data store.

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Dashy supports multiple languages and locales. When available, your language should be automatically detected and applied on load. But you can also select a language through the UI (under config -→ Switch Language) or set appConfig.language to your language (specified as a 2-digit ISO 639-1 code).

I would love Dashy to be available to everyone without language being a barrier to entry. If you’ve got a few minutes to spare, consider adding translations for your language. It’s a quick task, and all text is in a single JSON file. Since any missing text will fall back to English, you don’t need to translate it all.

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Within your dashboard, you can have as many sub-pages as you require. To load additional pages, specify a name, and path to a config file under pages. The config file can be either local (stored in /public), or remote (located anywhere accessible).

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If running on bare metal, Dashy requires Node V 16.0.0 or later, LTS (16.13.2) is recommended.

If running in Docker container, the recommended base image is Alpine (3.15)

The hardware requirements vary depending on where and how you are running Dashy. Generally speaking, on a bare-metal system or Docker container, 1GB of memory should be more than enough, and depending on whether you are using your own assets, then 1GB of disk space should be sufficient.

If you are using one of the 1-click cloud deployment methods, serving the app through a CDN or using a static hosting provider, then there are no specific requirements, as the built app is just a series of static JS files, and so is very light-weight.

Dashy also wells run on low-powered ARM-based single board computers, such as a Raspberry Pi (tested on Pi 3)

Browser Support | | | |  — | — | — | — | — | Latest ✔ | Latest ✔ | 10+ ✔ | Latest ✔ | 6.1+ ❌ |

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If you’re having trouble getting Dashy up and running, or have a question about usage or configuration, feel free to ask. The best place to do this is via the Discussions.

If you’ve found something which isn’t working as it should, please raise a bug by opening a ticket.

It’s best to check the docs, previous issues and troubleshooting guide first.

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If you’re using Dashy and would like to help support its development, then that would be awesome! Contributions of any type, any size, are always very much appreciated, and we will appropriately credit you for your effort.

Several areas that we need a bit of help with at the moment are:

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Thank you so much to everyone who has helped with Dashy so far; every contribution is very much appreciated.

Huge thanks to the sponsors helping to support Dashy’s development!

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Before getting started, you’ll need Git, Node and optionally Yarn (run npm i -g yarn) installed.

To set up the development environment:

When you’re ready, you can build the production app with yarn build, and then run it with yarn start

If you’re new to web development, I’ve put together a short list of resources to help beginners get started

Repo Status:

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For upcoming features that will be released in the near future, see the Current Roadmap

For past updates, see the Changelog

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A few self-hosted web apps serve a similar purpose to Dashy. If you’re looking for a dashboard, and Dashy doesn’t meet your needs, I highly recommend you check these projects out!

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Dashy is Licensed under MIT X11

TDLR; You can do whatever you like with Dashy: use it in private or commercial settings, redistribute and modify it. But you must display this license and credit the author. There is no warranty that this app will work as expected, and the author cannot be held liable for anything that goes wrong. For more info, see TLDR Legal’s Explanation of MIT

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