Dashboard Starting Guide

##Starting Guide

In this starting guide, we will explain what is the Netbeast Dashboard and how to install it. We will also show how to install your first application in the dashboard.

• What is the Netbeast Dashboard
• How to install the dashboard
• How to install an example application

###What is the Netbeast Dashboard

This is a web panel from you can install, manage or publish IoT applications. For Linux + node.js.

###How to install the dashboard

Prerequisites

You need to install:

• nodejs

If you are running on linux based system just:

sudo apt-get install nodejs

• npm

Once you install Nodejs, npm is included.

**Install Netbeast Dashboard**

You can install our dashboard in your pc, and try how it looks. Open your terminal and run:

sudo npm install -g nb-dashboard

If no erro appears, you will have installed the Netbeast Dashboard successfully. Now, let's see how it looks like. Open a terminal and run:

nb-dashboard --port 3000

Then open your browser and type:

localhost:3000

And you will see the Netbeast Dashboard running on your pc.

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If you want to see how to install an example application, go to our WIKI or just go to Developer section

###Install an Example application

If you haven't installed the Netbeast Dashboard yet, go to Install Netbeast Dashboard secction and go for it.

In other case, we will show you how to install an application and run it in the dashboard

• First one, download an example application. You can do this running on a terminal

npm install -g netbeast
netbeast new app
netbeast package app

A new folder named "app" and a folder named "app.tar.gz" will appear.

Now run the dashboard on the terminal

nb-dashboard

Open your browser and type:

localhost:3000

And finally just, drag and drop the folder "app.tar.gz" to the dashboard like this:

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Then, you will have installed your app succesfully. Now run it going to this,

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And you will see our "Netbeast Hello World" APP.