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Get GitHub in Your Terminal, No Browser Required, with gh-dash and Flox
Michael Stahnke | 04 October 2024
Fun Package Fridays is a series where we ask members of the Flox team to share fun and perhaps not-so-well-known tools and utilities you can find in the Flox Catalog, powered by Nix. Today's edition come from Michael Stahnke, our head of engineering.
It’s Friday again, and that means it’s time for Fun Packages Friday, in which we introduce and highlight a piece of software in the Flox Catalog, powered by Nixpkgs.
This week, I wanted to show off a tool called gh-dash. it’s a terminal (ncurses-based) interface to view Pull Requests (PR) and Issues on Github.
To give it a spin with Flox, simply run: flox install gh-dash to place it in an environment.
If you don’t already have Flox installed, you can get it here.
The only configuration setting required is to have your GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable set prior to invoking gh-dash.
The default screen brings up pull-requests you’ve opened that need your review, or that you’re somehow involved in. Hitting the s key switches to “Issue” mode, where you can see the GitHub issues you’ve opened, are assigned, or are involved in.
That’s about all there is to it. Maybe gh-dash can help your day-to-day workflows a bit, just like Flox.
Happy hacking!