node-dashing-js

A fork of the port of Dashing to node.js in attempt to revive the project with updated dependencies.

Getting Started

1. Install from npm

$ npm install -g node-dashing-js

2. Generate a new project

$ dashing-js new sweet_dashboard_project

3. Change your directory to sweet_dashboard_project and install required modules

$ cd sweet_dashboard_project && npm install

4. Start the server!

$ dashing-js start

5. Point your browser at http://localhost:3030/ and have fun!

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Every new Dashing project comes with sample widgets & sample dashboards for you to explore. The directory is setup as follows:

• Assets — All your images, fonts, and js/coffeescript libraries. Uses Sprockets Mincer.
• Dashboards — One .jade file for each dashboard that contains the layout for the widgets.
• Jobs — Your js/coffee jobs for fetching data (e.g for calling third party APIs like twitter). Name them *.job.js/*.job.coffee
• Lib — Optional js/coffee files to help out your jobs.
• Public — Static files that you want to serve. A good place for a favicon or a custom 404 page.
• Widgets — All the html/css/coffee for individual widgets.

Run dashing-js from command line to find out what command line tools are available to you.

Deployment

dashing-js is setup to be easily deployed on a Joyent Node SmartMachine. This means that:

1. The version of Node is defined in package.json
2. The main script to run is server.js
3. The web server port is pulled from process.env.PORT