feat(hub): allow per-group and hub-wide dock category order overrides

packages/hub/src/client/host.ts

@@ -63,6 +63,28 @@ export interface DevframeClientHostOptions {
    * `@devframes/json-render-ui`). The hub ships none by default.
    */
   renderers?: Record<string, DockRenderer>
+  /**
+   * Hub-wide override of the top-level dock-bar category ordering — a map of
+   * category id → ordering weight (lower sorts earlier), mirroring the shape
+   * of {@link import('../constants').DEFAULT_CATEGORIES_ORDER}.
+   *
+   * This is the OUTER bucket ordering: it governs every ungrouped entry's own
+   * `category` and every group's `category` (see
+   * {@link import('../types/docks').DevframeDockEntryBase.category}). It is
+   * distinct from {@link import('../types/docks').DevframeViewGroup.categoryOrder},
+   * which only reorders the IN-GROUP sub-categories of one specific group.
+   *
+   * Keys are merged over `DEFAULT_CATEGORIES_ORDER`, so the host app only
+   * lists the categories it wants to move; any category absent from the map
+   * keeps its default weight (falling back to `0`).
+   *
+   * @example
+   * ```ts
+   * // Surface `data` tools ahead of `app` tools, hub-wide.
+   * createDevframeClientHost({ categoryOrder: { data: 50 } })
+   * ```
+   */
+  categoryOrder?: Record<string, number>
 }
 
 export interface DevframeClientHost {

packages/hub/src/types/docks.ts

@@ -375,6 +375,29 @@ export interface DevframeViewGroup extends DevframeDockEntryBase {
    * opens until a member is chosen.
    */
   defaultChildId?: string
+  /**
+   * Per-group override of the in-group sub-category ordering — a map of
+   * sub-category id → ordering weight (lower sorts earlier), mirroring the
+   * shape of {@link import('../constants').DEFAULT_CATEGORIES_ORDER}.
+   *
+   * A member's own {@link DevframeDockEntryBase.category} is reinterpreted as
+   * its IN-GROUP sub-category, and members are sub-divided and sorted by those
+   * sub-categories. By default that sort follows the hub-wide
+   * `DEFAULT_CATEGORIES_ORDER`; set this to reorder the sub-categories **inside
+   * this group only**, leaving the outer dock-bar ordering (and every other
+   * group) untouched.
+   *
+   * Keys are merged over the defaults, so you only list the sub-categories you
+   * want to move; any sub-category absent from the map keeps its default weight
+   * (falling back to `0`).
+   *
+   * @example
+   * ```ts
+   * // In the "nuxt" group, surface `app` tools before `framework` internals.
+   * { type: 'group', id: 'nuxt', categoryOrder: { app: -200 } }
+   * ```
+   */
+  categoryOrder?: Record<string, number>
 }
 
 /**

tests/__snapshots__/tsnapi/@devframes/hub/client.snapshot.d.ts

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ export interface DevframeClientHostOptions {
   clientType?: DockClientType;
   loadClientScripts?: boolean;
   renderers?: Record<string, DockRenderer>;
+  categoryOrder?: Record<string, number>;
 }
 export interface DockClientScriptContext extends DocksContext {
   current: DockEntryState;