dashbrew

Changelog

All notable changes to dashbrew are recorded here.

The format follows Keep a Changelog and the project follows Semantic Versioning.

Nothing yet.

Big v2 themed feature drop. Old v1.0 configs keep working unchanged; every new field is optional with sensible defaults.

Per-component bindings: [{key, label, action}]. Pressing the bound key on the focused pane runs a shell action.
Two action types: fire_and_forget (spawn, ignore output) and replace_pane (spawn, capture stdout, show until reset).
output_as: "text" | "inherit" on replace_pane actions. inherit routes the action’s stdout through the component’s normal data parser so a chart action can return new numbers, a histogram action can return new bins, etc.
Global Ctrl+K action palette aggregating every binding across every component, fuzzy filterable, run with Enter.
Spinner overlay while a replace_pane action is in flight, sticky output afterwards until R (refetch + resume schedule) or Esc (clear only).
Centered red-bordered error modal when an action fails (non-zero exit, spawn error, or timeout). Dismiss with Esc.
Per-action timeout_seconds, defaulting to 30 seconds.
Config-load validation that rejects bindings using any reserved global key (ctrl+c, ctrl+k, shift+arrows, H/J/K/L, a/A, r/R, esc) or any key that conflicts with a component type’s internal keys (e.g. space on todo).

Named theme presets: default, dracula, nord, gruvbox-dark, tokyo-night, catppuccin-mocha, solarized-light.
style.theme: "auto" to detect terminal background via OSC 11 and pick the dark or light default automatically.
Role-based palette: style.palette.{background, foreground, dim, accent, success, warning, error, border, borderFocused} layered on top of the active theme.
Per-component overrides: component.style.{palette, borderType} so one pane can break from the dashboard-wide theme (useful for alerts panes, etc.).
Custom theme files loaded from $DASHBREW_THEMES_DIR or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/dashbrew/themes so users can ship their own without recompiling.
CLI flags: -t / --theme NAME to override the active theme at startup, --list-themes to print the registry.
Theme-driven colors wired through every component: chart series/axis/label/caption, table header + selected row, histogram bars, todo done items (strikethrough plus success-coloured ✓).

style.layout.gap to put a configurable number of whitespace cells between adjacent panes inside row/column containers.
style.focusMode: "highlight" to dim every non-focused pane so the focused one visually pops.
Component-level titleAlign: "left" | "center" | "right" with adaptive title-cell borders. The title cell only draws the border edges that face inward toward the pane, so a right-aligned title gets left and bottom borders, a centered title gets left, right, and bottom, and a left-aligned title keeps right and bottom.
Component-level icon field that prepends a literal glyph to the title.
Focused-pane title accent: bold title text in the focused color plus matching color on the title cell’s outward-facing borders.
Single-row help line at the bottom of the terminal, contextual to the current mode (default, add-mode, action-active, action-loading, palette-open, error-modal) and the focused component’s bindings. Subtle separator rule above it, faint labels with key chords highlighted.
Histogram barStyle modes: single (theme accent), alternate (accent / dim), gradient (LAB-blended dim to accent by value), and map (per-bin colors via barColors).

Text component height overflow: JoinVertical was treating an empty footer slot as one row, plus footer reservation was using stale viewport state. Both fixed; the pane now hits its allocated height exactly.
Histogram height drift that made the right column render one row taller than the left, leaving an empty band below the Posts Table.
fire_and_forget actions killing the spawned shell before it could finish: the runner now hands ownership of the cancel to the wait goroutine instead of deferring it on the closure.
Pre-existing msg.Width, msg.Width typo in the not-yet-initialized resize branch (was supposed to be msg.Width, msg.Height).

The replace_pane sticky overlay is now a scrollable bubbles/viewport rather than fixed truncated text, so a long action output (cat README.md, tail -n 500 file) can be paged with arrow keys, page-up/down, home/end, or the mouse wheel.
Default focused border color in the embedded default theme moved from #444444 (which was barely visible on dark terminals) to #bd93f9. Existing configs that set style.border.focusedColor still win.

Initial public release.

Six component types: text, list, todo, chart, histogram, table.
Three data sources: script (shell command), api (HTTP GET with optional JSONPath extraction), and direct file paths for todo.
Container layout primitives with row / column direction and flex sizing.
Per-component refresh_interval (seconds) and chart-specific refresh_mode: "append" for accumulating series.
Configurable border styling via style.border.{type, color, focusedColor}.
Global keymap: Shift+arrow / H J K L for navigation between panes, R to refresh the focused pane, A to enter add mode (todo), Space to toggle a todo, Ctrl+C to quit.
Mouse click to focus a pane.
Table component with per-column label, field (JSONPath-style key for object rows), and flex.

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