beacon_bridge
Desktop companion CLI for beacon_widget. Receives tapped widgets from your running app and copies a paste-ready code reference to your clipboard.
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Last release 15 days ago
08 Aug 2026
Too new to tell
only 1 release windows
Nearly every release is documented
notes for 2 of 2 stable releases
2 versions withdrawn
withdrawn after publishing
0 months old
4 releases · first in 2026
4 releases in the last 12 months
see the full history below
Release timeline
4 releases · Aug 2026 to Aug 2026Releases
latest 4-
0.1.308 Aug 2026Release notes
Open source →- Shorten the package description to pub.dev's recommended 60–180 characters.
- Add an
example/directory walking through a full session. - Set the formatter's page width to 120 to match the codebase, and format accordingly.
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0.1.208 Aug 2026Release notes
Open source →- Add IDE setup instructions for Android Studio / IntelliJ and VS Code, covering
both halves of the setup: passing
--vmservice-out-fileto your app's run configuration, and running the bridge alongside it (a Shell Script run configuration, or atasks.jsontask). - Document that
~/.pub-cache/binmust be on yourPATHafterdart pub global activate.
- Add IDE setup instructions for Android Studio / IntelliJ and VS Code, covering
both halves of the setup: passing
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0.1.108 Aug 2026 withdrawnRelease notes
Open source →- Point documentation at the Flutter package's published name,
beacon_widget. The 0.1.0 release referred to it asbeacon, a name pub.dev rejected as too similar to the existingbeaconspackage.
- Point documentation at the Flutter package's published name,
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0.1.008 Aug 2026 withdrawnRelease notes
Open source →Initial release.
- Attaches to a
flutter runyou started yourself — it never spawns or wrapsflutter run, so it works with whatever flavor, device or run configuration you already use. - Discovers the Dart VM Service by watching the file
flutter runwrites with--vmservice-out-file, and reconnects automatically across hot restarts and app relaunches. - Writes
.ref/sel-<id>.jsonplus a cropped.pngfor every selection, and copies a compact, paste-ready[ref] ...line to your clipboard. --format=multilinefor terminal agents that handle newlines; the default is single-line, since many chat inputs treat a newline as "send".- Handles combined multi-widget selections from
beacon_widget's selection stack. - Housekeeping: prunes
.ref/sel-*older than an hour, on startup and periodically while running; warns once if.ref/looks missing from your.gitignore.
Pairs with the
beacon_widgetFlutter package, which provides the on-device half. - Attaches to a