Avoid full reload when swithcing page.

public/assets/additionnal-page.yml.dist

@@ -1,18 +1,20 @@
-# this config is used by a page linked in the navbar
+---
-# this pages will use the same configuration from config.yml, but will overwrite fields present here
+# Additionnal page configuration
 
-# this overwrites title and subtitle:
+# Additionnal configurations are loaded using its file name, minus the extension, as an anchor (https://<mydashboad>#<config>). 
-title: "Page2"
+# `config.yml` is still used as a base configuration, and all values here will overwrite it, so you don't have to re-defined everything
-subtitle: "this is the second page"
 
-# this overwrites message config. Setting it to empty to remove message from this page and keep it only in the main one:
+
-message:
+subtitle: "this is another dashboard page"
+
+# This overwrites message config. Setting it to empty to remove message from this page and keep it only in the main one:
+message: ~
 
 # as we want to include a differente link here (so we can get back to home page), we need to replicate all links or they will be revome when overwriting the links field:
 links:
   - name: "Home"
     icon: "fas fa-home"
-    url: "/"
+    url: "#"
   - name: "Contribute"
     icon: "fab fa-github"
     url: "https://github.com/bastienwirtz/homer"
@@ -21,9 +23,8 @@ links:
     icon: "fas fa-book"
     url: "https://www.wikipedia.org/"
 
-# we keep the first group from the main page, but remove the second group. We need to replicate that first group or it will be removed:
 services:
-  - name: "NEW"
+  - name: "More applications on another page!"
     icon: "fas fa-cloud"
     items:
       - name: "Awesome app on a second page!"

public/assets/config.yml.dist

@@ -56,6 +56,11 @@ links:
   - name: "Wiki"
     icon: "fas fa-book"
     url: "https://www.wikipedia.org/"
+  # this will link to a second homer page that will load config from additionnal-page.yml and keep default config values as in config.yml file
+  # see url field and assets/additionnal-page.yml.dist used in this example:
+  - name: "another page!"
+    icon: "fas fa-file-alt"
+    url: "#additionnal-page" 
 
 # Services
 # First level array represent a group.

src/App.vue

@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@
       <section v-if="config.header" class="first-line">
         <div v-cloak class="container">
           <div class="logo">
-            <a href="#"><img v-if="config.logo" :src="config.logo" alt="dashboard logo" /></a>
+            <a href="#">
+              <img v-if="config.logo" :src="config.logo" alt="dashboard logo" />
+            </a>
             <i v-if="config.icon" :class="config.icon"></i>
           </div>
           <div class="dashboard-title">
@@ -149,18 +151,24 @@ export default {
     };
   },
   created: async function () {
+    this.buildDashboard();
+    window.onhashchange = this.buildDashboard;
+  },
+  methods: {
+    buildDashboard: async function () {
       const defaults = jsyaml.load(defaultConfig);
       let config;
-    window.onhashchange = function() { location.reload(); };
       try {
         config = await this.getConfig();
-      const path = (window.location.hash.substring(1) != '') ? window.location.hash.substring(1) : null;
+        const path =
+          window.location.hash.substring(1) != ""
+            ? window.location.hash.substring(1)
+            : null;
+
         if (path) {
           let pathConfig = await this.getConfig(`assets/${path}.yml`); // the slash (/) is included in the pathname
-        for (const prop in pathConfig) config[prop] = pathConfig[prop];
+          config = Object.assign(config, pathConfig);
         }
-      // config = await this.getConfig(path ? `assets/${path}.yml` : null);
-      //config = await (path ? this.getConfig(`assets/${path}.yml`) : this.getConfig())
       } catch (error) {
         console.log(error);
         config = this.handleErrors("⚠️ Error loading configuration", error);
@@ -178,7 +186,6 @@ export default {
         this.createStylesheet(stylesheet);
       }
     },
-  methods: {
     getConfig: function (path = "assets/config.yml") {
       return fetch(path).then((response) => {
         if (response.redirected) {

src/components/Message.vue

@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ export default {
   },
   data: function () {
     return {
-      show: false,
       message: {},
     };
   },
@@ -30,14 +29,23 @@ export default {
     // Look for a new message if an endpoint is provided.
     this.message = Object.assign({}, this.item);
     await this.getMessage();
-    this.show = this.message.title || this.message.content;
   },
-
+  computed: {
+    show: function () {
+      return this.message.title || this.message.content;
+    },
+  },
+  watch: {
+    item: function (item) {
+      this.message = Object.assign({}, item);
+    },
+  },
   methods: {
-    getMessage: async function() {
+    getMessage: async function () {
       if (this.item && this.item.url) {
         let fetchedMessage = await this.downloadMessage(this.item.url);
-        if (this.item.mapping) fetchedMessage = this.mapRemoteMessage(fetchedMessage);
+        if (this.item.mapping)
+          fetchedMessage = this.mapRemoteMessage(fetchedMessage);
         // keep the original config value if no value is provided by the endpoint
         for (const prop of ["title", "style", "content"]) {
           if (prop in fetchedMessage && fetchedMessage[prop] !== null) {
@@ -45,7 +53,8 @@ export default {
           }
         }
       }
-      if (this.item.refreshInterval) setTimeout(this.getMessage, this.item.refreshInterval);
+      if (this.item.refreshInterval)
+        setTimeout(this.getMessage, this.item.refreshInterval);
     },
 
     downloadMessage: function (url) {
@@ -60,7 +69,9 @@ export default {
     mapRemoteMessage: function (message) {
       let mapped = {};
       // map property from message into mapped according to mapping config (only if field has a value):
-      for (const prop in this.item.mapping) if (message[this.item.mapping[prop]]) mapped[prop] = message[this.item.mapping[prop]];
+      for (const prop in this.item.mapping)
+        if (message[this.item.mapping[prop]])
+          mapped[prop] = message[this.item.mapping[prop]];
       return mapped;
     },
   },