Dashboard: Is there a better way to show a plugin updates Info?

[tigion]

I have an information in the dashboard about how many packages have updates.

• The dashboard is displayed sooner than the Lazy.nvim knows which updates are available. It therefore does not display any updates.
• I refresh the dashboard a little later and now existing updates are displayed.
• I also have the dashboard updated by the lazy.nvim user event LazyCheck through an autocmd.

Is this a good way or am I missing a shortcut here?

The updates info is from: local updates = require('lazy.manage.checker').updated and #updates.

My config details:

  opts = {
    ...
    dashboard = {
      ...
      sections = {
        { section = 'header' },
        { section = 'keys', gap = 1, padding = 1 },
        ---Returns a custom footer text section.
        function()
          local version = require('tigion.core.util').info.nvim_version()
          local plugin_stats = require('tigion.core.util').info.plugin_stats()
          local date = os.date('%d.%m.%Y')
          local updates = plugin_stats.updates > 0 and '  ' .. plugin_stats.updates .. '' or ''
          return {
            align = 'center',
            text = {
              { ' ', hl = 'footer' },
              { version, hl = 'NonText' },
              { '    ', hl = 'footer' },
              { tostring(plugin_stats.count), hl = 'NonText' },
              { updates, hl = 'special' },
              { '   󰛕 ', hl = 'footer' },
              { plugin_stats.startuptime .. ' ms', hl = 'NonText' },
              { '    ', hl = 'footer' },
              { date, hl = 'NonText' },
            },
          }
        end,
      },
      ...
    },
    ...
  },  
  config = function(_, opts)
    local snacks = require('snacks')
    snacks.setup(opts)

    -- FIX: This is a workaround to show updates in the dashboard at startup.
    --      The dashboard is loaded before lazy.nvim has the information
    --      about updates. So it is updated again after 500 ms.
    vim.defer_fn(function()
      snacks.dashboard.update()
      -- vim.notify('Dashboard updated', vim.log.levels.DEBUG, { title = 'Snacks Setup' })
    end, 500)

    -- FIX: This is a workaround to update the dashboard
    --      every time when lazy.nvim checks for updates.
    vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd('User', {
      pattern = 'LazyCheck',
      callback = function()
        if vim.bo[ev.buf].filetype == 'snacks_dashboard' then
          -- vim.notify('Lazy.nvim checked for updates', vim.log.levels.DEBUG, { title = 'Snacks Autocmd' })
          snacks.dashboard.update()
          -- vim.notify('Dashboard updated', vim.log.levels.DEBUG, { title = 'Snacks Autocmd' })
        end,
      end,
    })
  end,

My snacks: config

[tigion]

I now use this autocommand to update the dashboard when the status of plugins changes.

    -- Updates an existing dashboard every time when lazy.nvim checks or updates plugins.
    vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd('User', {
      pattern = { 'LazyCheck', 'LazyUpdate' },
      callback = function()
        for _, bufnr in ipairs(vim.api.nvim_list_bufs()) do
          if vim.api.nvim_get_option_value('filetype', { buf = bufnr }) == 'snacks_dashboard' then
            snacks.dashboard.update()
          end
        end
      end,
    })