Dashboard Creator

The Dashboard Creator is an open source point-and-click interface for creating dashboards. It's maintained by the team at Keen IO.

Install

npm install @keen.io/dashboard-creator --save

or

yarn add @keen.io/dashboard-creator

Settings

The Dashboard Creator components configuration could be specified during creation of application instance.

Visualizations Theme

The Dashboard Creator @keen.io/dataviz theme could be overridden during initialization of application instance.

const dashboardCreator = new KeenDashboardCreator({
  theme: {
    colors: ['green', 'navy', 'orange'],
    metric: {
      value: {
        typography: {
          fontColor: 'black',
          fontSize: 23
        },
      },
    }
  },
 });

Routing integration

Additional handler could be used to get information about the current view rendered in the application.

export type View = 'management' | 'editor' | 'viewer';

const dashboardCreator = new KeenDashboardCreator({
  onViewChange: (view: View, dashboardId: string | null) => {}
});

Render initially dashboard viewer

The render method accepts initialView and dashboardId argument that could be used to present specific dashboard initially.

For editor provided as initial view the dashboard in viewer mode will be rendered.

export type View = 'management' | 'editor' | 'viewer';

const dashboardCreator = new KeenDashboardCreator({});

dashboardCreator.render('viewer', '@dashboardId');

Define user privileges

By default all users are allowed to edit and share dashboards. To restrict privileges - specify scopes by using userPermissions argument. In example below user will be able to edit dashboards - however the share feature will be not available.

type Scopes = 'share-dashboard' | 'edit-dashboard' | 'edit-dashboard-theme';

const dashboardCreator = new KeenDashboardCreator({
  userPermissions: ['edit-dashboard', 'edit-dashboard-theme'],
});

Set default timezone for queries

Specify default timezone used for new created queries. Provided argument must be compatible with IANA Time Zone Database standard.

const dashboardCreator = new KeenDashboardCreator({
  defaultTimezoneForQuery: 'Europe/Warsaw',
});

Disable query filter suggestions

Disables suggestions in query creator filters

const dashboardCreator = new KeenDashboardCreator({
  disableQueryFilterSuggestions: true,
});

Disable timezone selection

Disables possibility to change timezone for queries from user interface.

const dashboardCreator = new KeenDashboardCreator({
  disableTimezoneSelection: true,
});

Date Picker

Setup default timezone in widget and disable timezone selection.

const dashboardCreator = new KeenDashboardCreator({
  widgetsConfiguration: {
    datePicker: {
      defaultTimezone: 'Etc/UTC',
      disableTimezoneSelection: true
    }
  },
});

Examples

Unmount application

Unmounts Dashboard Creator application from root container.

const dashboardCreator = new KeenDashboardCreator();
...
dashboardCreator.destroy();

Project Setup

prerequisites

1. yarn - package manager
2. node - make sure it's minimum 10.x.x

steps

1. checkout repository
2. run yarn - to install project dependencies
3. create a config.js file (use config.template.js) and provide Keen credentials
4. run application in development mode yarn start:dashboard-creator

npm scripts

List of useful commands that could be used by developers. Execution in the command-line interface should be prefixed with yarn package manager.

Command	Description
lint	run linter against current application codebase.
test	run unit tests.
build	builds application distribution.
prettier	run code formatter process against current codebase.

commit

This project uses Conventional Commits to enforce common commit standards.

Command	Description
npx git-cz	run commit command line interface.

deployments

The all commits pushed into main branch will be picked by CircleCI workflow that perform npm packages version and publish.

test environments

The all commits pushed into develop branch will be picked by CircleCI workflow that allows to deploy artifiact on specific test environment.