DeskDash

DeskDash widget docs

Build, style, and publish widgets for DeskDash with plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, no build step required.

DeskDash widgets are small web modules that live on your desktop: a folder of plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript running in a sandboxed frame, talking to the system only through the dd SDK. There is no bundler, no framework, and no build step. If you can write a web page, you can write a widget.

Getting started

The widget mental model, developer mode, and a first widget from scratch.

Guides

The manifest, settings, interactivity, popouts, data, components, theming, and publishing.

Reference

The full dd.* API, manifest fields, permissions, tokens, components, events, and errors.

How the sandbox works

The containment model behind widgets, and what install-time grants mean.

What a widget is

The mental model: a folder of plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in an isolated frame, a manifest that declares everything, and the dd SDK as the only door to the system.