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<img src="docs/screenshots/project_github.png" alt="splashboard" width="820">
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<a href="https://crates.io/crates/splashboard"><img src="https://img.shields.io/crates/v/splashboard.svg?style=flat-square&color=E06B4B" alt="crates.io"></a>
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<a href="https://github.com/unhappychoice/splashboard/blob/main/LICENSE"><img src="https://img.shields.io/crates/l/splashboard.svg?style=flat-square" alt="license"></a>
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<strong>A customizable terminal splash rendered on shell startup and on <code>cd</code>.</strong><br>
<sub><code>splashboard</code> = <code>splash</code> + <code>dashboard</code></sub>
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Instead of a blinking cursor, every new shell shows a dashboard of the things you actually care about — greetings, git status, CI health, PRs, a contributions heatmap, the moon phase. The killer feature: a repo that ships `./.splashboard/dashboard.toml` auto-reshapes the splash when you `cd` in, so different repos get different splashes for free.
## Install
```bash
<details>
<summary>Other install methods</summary>
```bash
# cargo
cargo install splashboard
# Homebrew (macOS / Linux)
brew install unhappychoice/tap/splashboard
# cargo-binstall (prebuilt binaries from GitHub Releases)
cargo binstall splashboard
# Nix flake
nix run github:unhappychoice/splashboard
nix profile install github:unhappychoice/splashboard
```
Prebuilt binaries for Linux (x86_64 / aarch64), macOS (x86_64 / aarch64), and Windows (x86_64) are also attached to each [GitHub Release](https://github.com/unhappychoice/splashboard/releases).
</details>
`splashboard install` then detects your shell, walks you through template / theme pickers, and wires your rc for you.
```bash
splashboard install
```
Prefer to own the rc edit yourself? Append one line that re-sources `splashboard init <shell>` on every shell start — upgrades to splashboard ship an updated init snippet automatically:
```bash
echo 'eval "$(splashboard init zsh)"' >> ~/.zshrc
echo 'eval "$(splashboard init bash)"' >> ~/.bashrc
## Docs
📖 **<https://splashboard.unhappychoice.com/>**
- [Getting started](https://splashboard.unhappychoice.com/guides/getting-started/) — install, wire your shell, render your first splash
- [Concepts](https://splashboard.unhappychoice.com/guides/concepts/) — the mental model (Widget = Fetcher + Renderer + Layout slot)
- [Configuration](https://splashboard.unhappychoice.com/guides/configuration/) — the full TOML schema
- [Presets](https://splashboard.unhappychoice.com/guides/presets/) & [Themes](https://splashboard.unhappychoice.com/guides/themes/) — curated dashboards and palettes
- [Trust model](https://splashboard.unhappychoice.com/guides/trust/) — how per-directory configs are sandboxed
- [Watch mode](https://splashboard.unhappychoice.com/guides/watch/) — persistent foreground dashboard via `splashboard watch`
- [Reference](https://splashboard.unhappychoice.com/reference/matrix/) — every fetcher and renderer with options and compatible shapes
## Status
Usable day-to-day. Widget catalog tracked as a living roadmap in [issue #41](https://github.com/unhappychoice/splashboard/issues/41) — new fetchers and renderers land as PRs that tick the checkboxes.
## License
ISC
## Related
- [gitlogue](https://github.com/unhappychoice/gitlogue) — cinematic git history replay
- [gittype](https://github.com/unhappychoice/gittype) — CLI typing game from your source code
- [mdts](https://github.com/unhappychoice/mdts) — local Markdown tree server
## Support
If you find this project useful, please consider:
- ⭐️ [Star on GitHub](https://github.com/unhappychoice/splashboard)
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