Pit Friedrich
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Adds a /gridstack route demonstrating GridStackLayout: four default widgets (line/bar/pie chart cards plus a usage hint), buttons to add and remove widgets at runtime, a reset-layout button and a layout-change status line. Layout is persisted per browser via the existing localStorage support. The view gets its own SideNavItem in MainLayout and full de/en/es translations. Fixes an infinite recursion in GridStackLayout.add(Component): a single-argument add(item) resolves to that overload rather than the varargs one, so its delegation to add(item) called itself. It now appends through the element API and passes a GridStackItem through unwrapped. Adds the first test sources (browserless UI tests) covering the view's widget count and the add/remove buttons. Closes #7 Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PYAcKoXKPN3rJ7nBroKZkc
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