[Clone and Go]
Dashboard Scaffold & Local-First Workflow
A clone-and-go base for new dashboards, and a way to build them locally instead of paying per message in the app builder.
The hub was created in an AI app builder synced to a git branch. Iterating there was slow and billed per message, and every new dashboard re-solved auth, filters and data access.
Extracted the scaffold from the hub and wrote its manual.
Colleagues needed to start a dashboard without re-solving auth, roles and data plumbing — and without burning builder credits.
01 · The base
React + Vite + TanStack Router + shadcn + Tailwind with auth, roles, a data client, UI kit, filters, a dev tunnel and sample dashboards.
02 · The data pattern
The MySQL → Postgres mirror pattern and the data-health suite, as reference.
03 · Local first
Development happens locally with a coding agent; the builder is used only for scaffolding.
04 · Real login locally
A tunnel makes Google sign-in work in local dev; a headless browser validates every change.
05 · Docs
An edge-case manual and a visual-language guide distilled from the production dashboards.
! brokeA fix looked broken in production: it was merged on the local branch but never pushed to the synced one.
→ changedBefore hunting a bug, check that the code is actually deployed.