allow notification display and management

[yuvalif]

this gh extension: https://github.com/meiji163/gh-notify allows for commandline interaction with notifications. would be useful if this could be integrated into gh-dash, so the display and interaction are done using TUI instead of commandline, and are fro mthe same tool

[joshmedeski]

I think it would be great to integrate GitHub notifications (in general) into gh-dash.

@dlvhdr let me know if you'd be down for me to do some work on this. I'd recommend we design the UI first.

[dlvhdr]

Of course I'm down, sounds great!

[RoseSecurity]

This is awesome! Any progress with the design?

[ccoVeille]

Thanks @RoseSecurity for reactivating this old discussion.

I wasn't aware gh-notify existed. I'll take a look at it. From what I can see it's a pure script. So it would be about reverse-engineering what the code does.

Maybe gh-not (hi @nobe4 👋), also in Go, could be a better candidate for anyone interested to bring notifications to gh-dash, or simply to use it directly.

https://github.com/nobe4/gh-not

[nobe4]

The code behind gh-not is more than just a notification viewer. So I don't know how much of this codebase would fit into gh-dash.

The main ideas of gh-not are:

• Hardened notification fetching and caching.

  The /notification API was so flaky for me, it gave me the incentive to write that in the first place. There's a significant portion of the code dedicated only to pulling notifications and their context, and handling a local cache.

• Configured actions, so I could for instance, mark all notifications from dependabot, as done automatically.

  rules:
    - filters:
        - .author.login == "dependabot[bot]"
      action: done
  

• REPL to access the notifications in a TUI.

None of that code is currently exported, but if there's interest, I could make some of that available to others. 🤝

[zachdaniel]

Yeah this would be awesome for me ❤️

[dlvhdr]

Actually I'm not interacting with notifications that much. I even hid the bell icon with a script on the GitHub side since it's so noisy and causes context switches.

My question is, what kind of things do you imagine gh-dash doing here? I can imagine like marking a notification as done, unsubscribing and opening the notification in the GitHub site. but since I'm not an heavy user I would love to hear some feedback.

@zachdaniel @joshmedeski @yuvalif

[yuvalif]

@dlvhdr for me this is an important github tool. i work on a big project and sometimes I'm not notified directly on changes that i should review. would be great to be able to:

• see thew list of notifications
• be able to look into a notifications
• mark as done

[dlvhdr]

Closing as a duplicate of #141. I will take all feedback into account.