Adding Custom Statuses, Custom Badges and even more!

Here we are again!

Today I added:

• Custom Statuses
• Custom Badges

WIP:

• Sync badges with GitHub repository
• Sync topics with GitHub repository

My original status system for projects was a hardcoded enum with statuses “Active”, “Inactive”, “Paused” and “Archived”. Then I had a lot of switches which determined color of markup based on which enum it is hah.

As you may already know, enums cannot be changed in runtime :)

What does that mean?
That users cannot add their own statuses in Helyx directly… They would have to hardcode into Helyx their own statuses and that’s just impractical, no?

That’s why I spent below mentioned amount of hours redoing so many things to make it actually work and I even learned something from this!
That JSON Parsers and Colors are NOT huge friends! (genuinely, I HAD NO IDEA why it wasn’t working until AI told me that JSON parsers cannot translate Color structs).

Custom Statuses/Badges currently have Add/Delete functions and right now I am going to add also Edit function, so when you accidentally create a status/badge with wrong color, you don’t have to delete it and create it again :) (just saved 10seconds of your life).

I also recategorized my whole codebase with help of Claude Code. I told him to review my whole codebase and suggest what classes, enums, interfaces should be in which files and those files in which folders.

It was fun, finally something where I did not have to concentrate much and chill and watch something when doing it. Well, now it is not much fun when functions that I was using are in different files and some classes have different names. But at least my codebase looks more professional! (before this I had like 10 files with a bunch of lines where classes were stacked…)

Also, about the WIP stuff above… Sync badges with GitHub repository is going to be something like the Sync status with GitHub repository. It will just pop up in your README.md based on where you put the headers which Helyx will give you for that specific badge.

Sync topics on the other hand are classic topics of the repository which you can see in top right corner of your repository page. It will mostly show you which topics are assigned to your repository in Helyx but I’ll make it also so you can assign/unassign topics from your repository.

I’m thinking of adding more GitHub Synchronization options, but none are currently coming to my mind. Maybe something with actions, no idea yet, or local AI that will explain to you errors given by Helyx when you will be trying to do something.

We will see!