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kantord/just-dashboard
:bar_chart: :clipboard: Dashboards using YAML or JSON files
just-dashboard lets you define dashboards in YAML or JSON and renders them as D3-powered charts in the browser. It's aimed at anyone who wants a shareable visualization without writing frontend code — point it at a GitHub Gist and get a URL. The sweet spot is quick, static data exploration, not production BI tooling.
The YAML DSL is genuinely readable — the food comparison example in the README is 20 lines and produces a real layout with multiple charts. The Gist-as-backend idea is clever: zero infrastructure for simple public datasets. Test coverage looks solid for a project this size, with co-located test files for each component. Renovate is configured, so dependencies at least get automated PR nudges.
Last meaningful activity looks stale — 1581 stars but only 58 forks suggests people starred it and moved on rather than adopting it. The `bottoml.in` hosted version in the README is a third-party domain you don't control, which is a dead link waiting to happen. Data fetching is locked to public URLs and GitHub Gists; there's no auth story, so any private or internal data requires you to self-host and figure out CORS yourself. The YAML parser is custom and the DSL is underdocumented enough that you'll be reading source to debug layout issues.