devto_devdash

A terminal dashboard for your dev.to portfolio, built on top of devdash. It shows an overview of your published articles plus three live leaderboards: Most Liked, Most Viewed, and Most Commented.

How it works

devdash is a config-driven terminal dashboard with widgets for services like GitHub, Google Analytics, Travis CI, etc. — but no dev.to/Forem support out of the box, and the upstream project has been archived since 2023. Instead of forking it, this repo uses devdash's local host command widget (lh.table), which runs an arbitrary shell command and renders its stdout as a real bordered table.

• devto-stats/ — a small Go program that calls the dev.to API (GET /api/articles/me), paginates through all of your articles, and prints sorted, table-ready rows.
• devdash.yml — the dashboard layout: one summary row plus three side-by-side leaderboard tables, each backed by a devto-stats invocation.
• devdash/ — a local clone of upstream devdash, built from source (fetched by make setup, not vendored into this repo).

Two things worth knowing if you poke at the code:

• devdash refreshes all widgets concurrently on every cycle, which is enough concurrent load to trip dev.to's API rate limit (429). devto-stats retries with backoff + jitter to absorb that.
• devdash's table widget rejoins each row with commas internally and re-splits the whole batch on commas to build cells — so a literal comma in an article title would silently shift every row after it by one column. devto-stats strips commas (and slugifies whitespace) out of titles before printing them.

Setup

Requires Go (to build both binaries) and Git.

git clone https://github.com/lovestaco/devto_devdash.git
cd devto_devdash
make setup   # clones + builds devdash, builds devto-stats, creates .env

Edit .env and set your dev.to API key (generate one at https://dev.to/settings/extensions):

DEVTO_API_KEY=your_dev_to_api_key_here

Usage

make run

• Ctrl+R — force refresh
• Ctrl+C — quit
• Auto-refreshes every 5 minutes (general.refresh in devdash.yml)

Other targets: make build (rebuild binaries), make clean (remove ./bin).

Notes

• .env, ./bin, and the cloned devdash/ source are all gitignored — the API key never gets committed, and devdash is treated as a build dependency rather than vendored code.
• devto-stats only counts published articles, and reads reactions, views, and comments straight from the Forem API's own fields (positive_reactions_count, page_views_count, comments_count).

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