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Creating a dashboard

Creating a dashboard

On the wall mounted TV in our office a dashboard is displayed. At a glance we can see what the current tasks for each member of our team are, which important events are coming up, which music is playing, if it will rain in the next 30 minutes, ... and much more.

In this 30 minute demo I'll explain how we leveraged both Laravel and Vue to build the dashboard. After demonstrating the dashboard itself we'll take a deep dive in the code. We'll take a look at the entire flow: the grid system, broadcast events, the Pusher service, some cool Vue mixins and much more. After this talk you'll be able to setup a dashboard using our code available at https://github.com/spatie/dashboard.spatie.be

Freek Van der Herten

July 27, 2016
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  1. Creating a dashboard
    with Laravel,
    Vue and Pusher

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  2. About me
    Freek Van der Herten
    Partner & developer at SPATIE
    @freekmurze
    https://murze.be

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  3. Since 2003
    Websites, applications and webshops
    Team
    4 developers, 1 manager
    Specialization
    Laravel development

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  4. OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

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  5. Open source software
    ± 80 packages on Packagist
    + 700 000 downloads
    A lot of benefits: learning, forced to write documentation and
    tests, showing the quality of our work, eating our own dogfood

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  6. https://spatie.be/opensource

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  7. OUR OFFICE

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  11. https://github.com/spatie/dashboard.spatie.be

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  21. HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW

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  22. The dashboard is a single HTML page
    Displayed by a full screen browser
    Without full page reload
    Each tile wil be updated by JavaScript
    Each tile has it’s own update frequency
    In short

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  23. Technology stack
    Laravel Pusher Vue.js

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  24. Render the initial page
    Fetch data from external API’s (scheduled)
    Broadcast events when new data has arrived
    Laravel

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  25. spatie/laravel-google-calendar
    spatie/last-fm-now-playing
    spatie/packagist-api
    graham-campbell/github
    Laravel

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  26. Provides full-duplex communication channels over a single TCP
    connection
    Transporting events from server to the browser
    In realtime
    Secure
    Paid service
    Pusher

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  27. WebSockets
    Transporting events from server to the browser
    In realtime
    Secure
    Paid service
    Pusher

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  28. Transporting events from server to the browser
    In realtime
    Secure
    Paid service
    Pusher
    Magic

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  29. Lot of ♥ from the Laravel community
    Easy to learn
    Each tile is a component
    Listen for incoming events
    Update the tile
    Vue.js

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  30. DEMO

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  31. Starting fresh
    Grid system
    The clock tile
    The Packagist tile
    Topics

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  32. There will be 

    some live coding
    We’ll use 

    an internet connection

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  33. DISPLAYING ON A TV

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  34. Raspberry Pi 2

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  35. Raspberry Pi 2
    Powered by the USB port from the TV
    Uses Raspbian Jessie
    Boots into Chromium 51 in fullscreen mode
    Setup

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  36. TRY IT OUT YOURSELF

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  37. Source code
    https://github.com/spatie/dashboard.spatie.be
    Blog posts
    https://murze.be/2016/06/building-dashboard-using-laravel-vue
    https://murze.be/2016/06/grid-layout-dashboard/
    Documentation

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  38. ROUND UP

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  39. https://laravel.com
    https://pusher.com
    https://vuejs.com
    https://vuecasts.com
    Interesting links

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  40. https://www.geckoboard.com/
    http://www.cyfe.com/
    https://razorflow.com/
    http://dashing.io/ 

    Built by Shopify, Ruby. No longer maintained, but works great
    https://panic.com/statusboard/
    Alternatives

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  41. Credits
    Willem Van Bockstal
    @willemvbockstal
    Looks + grid system
    Sebastian De Deyne
    @sebdedeyne
    Scrutinising + JS wizardry

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  42. QUESTIONS?

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  43. Thank you!
    https://joind.in/talk/xxx
    https://speakerdeck.com/freekmurze/creating-a-dashboard
    https://murze.be
    https://spatie.be/opensource

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