@cap’n Jun 12, 2026

The PocketHost dashboard has been on DaisyUI and a handful of Svelte wrapper libraries for a while. It worked, but the stack was showing its age — inconsistent components, icon packages bolted on separately, and a docs layout that was getting harder to read on wide monitors.

We just finished migrating the whole dashboard to Web Awesome (free tier) and cleaned up a few related rough edges along the way.

What changed

UI components — Buttons, cards, callouts, inputs, dropdowns, and the rest now use Web Awesome’s wa-* web components instead of DaisyUI classes. Icons go through <wa-icon> with Font Awesome Free built in, so we dropped svelte-fa and the separate @fortawesome/* packages.

Theme — Dark mode is first-class again. Brand green stays at #1eb854. The old blurred background pattern is gone in favor of a solid #111111 shell, which reads better and keeps focus on content.

Readability — Marketing pages, the app shell, docs, and blog posts now share sensible max-widths so lines do not stretch forever on ultrawide displays. Doc prose got proper dark-theme typography so screenshots and body copy are actually legible.

Images — We removed @sveltejs/enhanced-img and the mdsvex image plugins. Logos and feature art use plain Vite imports; doc and blog images stay co-located with their routes and sync into static/generated/ at dev/build time. One source of truth, no duplicate PNGs checked into git.

What this means for you

Same PocketHost, cleaner UI. Dashboard, instance settings, pricing, and docs should feel familiar — just more consistent. Fewer random hover states and mismatched form controls.

Docs are easier to read. If you noticed gray-on-black prose lately, that was a migration side effect. Fixed.

Easier for us to maintain. One component library, one icon system, fewer dependencies. Future dashboard work should ship faster.

Under the hood (briefly)

The old stack: DaisyUI + Tailwind + svelte-fa + enhanced-img + a custom blur background component.

The new stack: Web Awesome (cherry-picked components in src/lib/webawesome.ts) + Tailwind for layout + a small sync script for route-colocated markdown images.

Roughly sixty Svelte files touched. No user-facing feature removals — this is infrastructure and polish.

If you spot something that looks off after the deploy, drop a note in Discord. Always happy to fix the last 5%.