Shine a spotlight on your github repos - powered by Shiny.NET

A cross-platform desktop dashboard for keeping an eye on the GitHub repositories you care about. GitHub Shine is a .NET MAUI Blazor Hybrid app that polls GitHub through fine-grained personal access tokens and surfaces stars, forks, issues, pull requests, and CI build status at a glance — with native notifications when something needs your attention, a tray menu for quick access, and bulk source archiving.

GitHub Shine is organized into four tabs — Dashboard, Accounts, Archive, and Settings.

• At-a-glance repo dashboard — every monitored repo is rendered as a card showing open issues, open pull requests, stars, forks, watchers, and the status of its latest workflow run.
• Aggregate totals bar — running sums across all repos for stars, forks, watchers, open issues, open PRs, and how many builds are currently passing vs. failing.
• Sortable sidebar — sort your repositories by most stars (default), forks, open issues, open PRs, or build status; clicking a repo scrolls it into focus in the main panel. The sort order is shared with the tray menu.
• Live search — filter the repo grid as you type with a case-insensitive "contains" match on repo name and account.
• Drag-to-reorder — arrange the dashboard cards by drag-and-drop (or the ‹ › buttons); your layout is persisted between sessions.
• "Needs your attention" inbox — pulls your GitHub notifications and highlights the ones that matter: mentions, assignments, and requested reviews.
• Repository archive — on the Archive tab, multi-select repos and download a source zip of each one's default branch into a folder of your choice, with per-repo progress, a Saved/Failed badge, and cancellation.
• Native notifications — get notified about new issues, new pull requests, and failed workflow runs; mute them from the Settings tab or the tray menu.
• Tray menu with repo list — a monochrome template tray icon whose menu opens the dashboard, refreshes, toggles mute, and lists your repositories (in the same order as the sidebar) — click one to open it on GitHub.
• Settings tab — mute notifications, choose the repository sort order (shared by the sidebar and tray), set the refresh interval, and back up or restore the database.
• Background polling — the refresh interval is configurable from Settings, with an immediate refresh whenever you add, edit, or remove an account/repo.
• Multiple GitHub accounts — monitor repos across several accounts, each backed by its own fine-grained PAT.
• Secure token storage — access tokens are kept in a secure vault, never in plain configuration.
• Database backup/restore — export and import the local store (accounts, repos, tokens, card order) as a single SQLite file from the Settings tab.
• Truly cross-platform desktop — runs natively on macOS (AppKit), Linux (GTK4), and Windows, all from a single MAUI project.

• .NET 10 SDK
• The maui workload: dotnet workload install maui
• A GitHub fine-grained personal access token with read access to the repositories you want to monitor.

# from the repository root
dotnet build GitHubShine.slnx

# run on the current desktop platform (macOS / Linux / Windows)
dotnet build src/GitHubShine/GitHubShine.csproj -t:Run

On first launch, add a GitHub account with its fine-grained PAT, pick the repositories to monitor, and the dashboard will begin polling.

GitHubShine.slnx                  Solution
src/GitHubShine/
├─ Components/                  Blazor pages, layout, and routes
├─ Features/
│  ├─ Accounts/                 Account/repo config, secure token vault
│  ├─ Archive/                  Bulk source-zip download of selected repos
│  ├─ Dashboard/                Snapshots, polling, Mediator handlers
│  ├─ Settings/                 App settings, file dialogs, database backup/restore
│  └─ Tray/                     System tray icon + repo menu
├─ Platforms/                   macOS / Linux / Windows entry points
└─ wwwroot/                     Blazor host page and CSS