Repository navigation
Integrated UI for Changesets #680
Description
I was lately wondering - what if Changesets would come with a dedicated application that would extend/enhance the standard git-based workflow.
What could be simplified by such a UI? What would you expect out of it? How the integration could work on a technical level?
Note that there is no intention now to create such UI - this is mainly “what if” thread. Its intention is to gather ideas and maybe to get a volunteer from the community who could create MVP for this.
Reacted by oneplus-jhd
Activity
arcanis commentedon Nov 27, 2021
I really like the UI we have with Yarn's workflow, however I was starting to feel the terminal was becoming a limiting factor with many workspaces, since it's hard to get a good picture of all of them while also providing good interactions like scrolling / "select all" / "unselect all" / etc.
I've considered a different approach, although I didn't get time to work on it so far. I'll keep using Yarn as example, but it feels like the same could be applied to Changeset:
Have
yarn version check -ispawn a web server on a known fixed port and wait. This server would expose a single endpoint:POST /submit.Additionally, it'd open the browser to a known url, with a json payload in the query string. This known URL would be a React app (or whatever other framework) which would render a rich form based on the information provided in the payload.
On submit, the app would send the data to the
POST /submitendpoint, which would apply the given state in the change form and exit theyarn version check -iCLI command.The "known" url could either be hosted on our website, or bundled with our CLI and served dynamically on localhost.
Person-93 commentedon Dec 28, 2021
Perhaps there can be a command line option to produce output in json or some other machine readable format. That way any tooling built around it can be in a separate package. This would allow @arcanis or anyone else to make their own GUI however they like it.
tenedev commentedon Dec 16, 2025
Are you trying make like GitHub desktop with changesets integrated.
bluwy commentedon Jun 8, 2026
I'll close this as it's been a while