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better-github

v0.0.1

Published

An opinionated, local-first GitHub dashboard, powered by your gh CLI. Launches with npx better-github.

Downloads

142

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Maintainers

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Keywords

githubghclidashboarddeveloper-tools

Readme

better-github

An opinionated, local-first GitHub dashboard, powered by your local gh CLI.

Status: early, active development. APIs, screens and config are all expected to change. Not yet published to npm.

Why

The GitHub web UI does a lot but is not optimized for the workflows individual engineers actually run day to day. better-github is an opinionated dashboard that talks to GitHub through your already-authenticated gh CLI, so:

  • nothing leaves your machine
  • there is no separate auth, no tokens to manage, no third-party server
  • you get a UI tailored to triaging PRs, reviews and issues the way you want it

Goal

Once published, you should be able to launch the dashboard with a single command:

npx better-github

That will start a local server using the bundled build and open the dashboard in your browser. All GitHub data is fetched on demand by shelling out to gh.

Requirements

  • GitHub CLI authenticated via gh auth login
  • Node 20+ to run the published CLI

Development

bun install
bun --bun run dev

The dev server runs on http://localhost:8765.

Other scripts

bun --bun run build     # production build
bun --bun run preview   # preview the production build
bun --bun run test      # run vitest
bun --bun run lint      # eslint
bun --bun run format    # prettier + eslint --fix
bun --bun run check     # prettier check

Stack

License

MIT