dsh-better-sidebar-onlyoffice

When DSH drives a document-heavy workflow, the sidebar typically only renders a static preview of .docx, .xlsx, or .pptx—fixing a sentence means leaving the terminal and opening a desktop Office app, and an AI edit to an open file stays invisible until you manually refresh. dsh-better-sidebar-onlyoffice embeds the full ONLYOFFICE editor (Words, Sheets, Slides) directly into the better-sidebar file viewer. Saves are written back to disk via temp-file + rename, editor configs are HS256-JWT-signed, file downloads are gated by short-lived HMAC tokens, and paths are fenced to the session working directory.

Two features stand out. First, the same-origin reverse proxy is always on: the entire Document Server browser surface—api.js, the editor iframe, static assets, the co-authoring WebSocket—flows through dsh web at /sidebar/onlyoffice/ds. The DS can live on a private network the browser never reaches, and an https frontend can transparently proxy an http-only DS with no mixed-content issues. Second, live refresh on AI edits: when the agent modifies a file that is open in the editor, an inotify → SSE → refreshFile chain swaps in the new version in about a second with no page reload and no api.js reload. A dirty editor is never auto-refreshed; a banner appears offering a manual Reload button so unsaved work is never silently discarded.

Ideal for developers running document-centric DSH web workflows, especially when the Document Server sits on an internal network that should not be exposed to browsers. It coexists cleanly with the community office-preview plugin through distinct viewer IDs and priorities, and either can be toggled per-file in the sidebar card settings.