Hey 👋
First off — love Dashy, been running it as my homelab dashboard for a while now and it's great.
I was wondering if there's any interest in adding a lightweight REST API for managing sections and items in the config? Something along the lines of:
GET /api/dashy/sections — list sectionsPOST /api/dashy/items — add an item to a section by nameDELETE /api/dashy/items — remove an item by URL
The use case for us is automating dashboard updates — we have a service manager that creates reverse proxy entries and DNS records, and it'd be nice to also add/remove dashboard tiles in the same flow without needing to edit the YAML directly or restart the container.
We've actually prototyped this as a small sidecar Express server that reads/writes conf.yml using js-yaml, and it works well. Happy to put together a PR if this is something you'd consider merging — either as a sidecar or baked into the existing server.js.
No worries at all if it's out of scope or not the direction you want to take the project. Just thought I'd float the idea!
Hey 👋
First off — love Dashy, been running it as my homelab dashboard for a while now and it's great.
I was wondering if there's any interest in adding a lightweight REST API for managing sections and items in the config? Something along the lines of:
GET /api/dashy/sections— list sectionsPOST /api/dashy/items— add an item to a section by nameDELETE /api/dashy/items— remove an item by URLThe use case for us is automating dashboard updates — we have a service manager that creates reverse proxy entries and DNS records, and it'd be nice to also add/remove dashboard tiles in the same flow without needing to edit the YAML directly or restart the container.
We've actually prototyped this as a small sidecar Express server that reads/writes
conf.ymlusingjs-yaml, and it works well. Happy to put together a PR if this is something you'd consider merging — either as a sidecar or baked into the existing server.js.No worries at all if it's out of scope or not the direction you want to take the project. Just thought I'd float the idea!