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

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1. Creating a dashboard with Laravel, Vue and Pusher
2. About me Freek Van der Herten Partner & developer at SPATIE @freekmurze https://murze.be
3. Since 2003 Websites, applications and webshops Team 4 developers, 1 manager Specialization Laravel development
4. OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
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
6. https://spatie.be/opensource
7. OUR OFFICE
11. https://github.com/spatie/dashboard.spatie.be
21. HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW
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
23. Technology stack Laravel Pusher Vue.js
24. Render the initial page Fetch data from external API’s (scheduled) Broadcast events when new data has arrived Laravel
25. spatie/laravel-google-calendar spatie/last-fm-now-playing spatie/packagist-api graham-campbell/github Laravel
26. Provides full-duplex communication channels over a single TCP connection Transporting events from server to the browser In realtime Secure Paid service Pusher
27. WebSockets Transporting events from server to the browser In realtime Secure Paid service Pusher
28. Transporting events from server to the browser In realtime Secure Paid service Pusher Magic
29. Lot of ♥ from the Laravel community Easy to learn Each tile is a component Listen for incoming events Update the tile Vue.js
30. DEMO
31. Starting fresh Grid system The clock tile The Packagist tile Topics
32. There will be 
 some live coding We’ll use 
 an internet connection
33. DISPLAYING ON A TV
34. Raspberry Pi 2
35. Raspberry Pi 2 Powered by the USB port from the TV Uses Raspbian Jessie Boots into Chromium 51 in fullscreen mode Setup
36. TRY IT OUT YOURSELF
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
38. ROUND UP
39. https://laravel.com https://pusher.com https://vuejs.com https://vuecasts.com Interesting links
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
41. Credits Willem Van Bockstal @willemvbockstal Looks + grid system Sebastian De Deyne @sebdedeyne Scrutinising + JS wizardry
42. QUESTIONS?
43. Thank you! https://joind.in/talk/xxx https://speakerdeck.com/freekmurze/creating-a-dashboard https://murze.be https://spatie.be/opensource