Rather than swapping one hard-coded URL for a different hard-coded URL, could we make the URL a variable that we define once and then use everywhere?

Yes. I have several ideas in my mind for that.

• We can use the server link by adding it to our .env file and then using the same everywhere.
• We can ask the user to specify the host by doing something like this:

library("statusboard")
statusboard::run_app() --host {host_url}

We will the https://pecan.localhost/ as the default host_url in scenarios where no such host is defined

• Take user input explicitly, but this time confirming host by user everytime we run our app. Something like this :

library("statusboard")
statusboard::run_app()
> Enter your host_url (default : https://pecan.localhost) : 

Which one do you find the most suitable for this?

I don't think you want to rely on host_url being set interactively, that could put limitations on where/how the app is deployed. For this PR I think it's fine to just define the variable host_url in one place that's clearly documented, either in the script itself or in a simple config file. I'm also fine with https://pecan.localhost being the default.

Changes made :

• Created config/config.R which contains our default host_url for server's connection. All future configurations too may be added in this file in future changes.

Hey @mdietze . Ready to be merged !