Dashboard/Widgets functionality with AngularJS (Demo application for https://github.com/nickholub/angular-ui-dashboard).

Features:

• Adding/removing widgets

• Widgets are instantiated dynamically (from corresponding directive or template)

• Widgets drag and drop (with jQuery UI Sortable)

• Saving widgets state to local storage

• Fluid layout (widgets can have percentage width)

• Any directive can be a widget (e.g. AngularUI directives)

• Connecting widgets to real-time data (WebSocket)

• Changing widget data source dynamically (from widget options)

Online demo with real-time data

AngularJS Dashboard directive is available as independent library https://github.com/nickholub/angular-ui-dashboard.

1. Node.js way

Install express

   $ npm install express

Run Node.js server

   $ node app.js

Application will be available at http://localhost:3000.

2. Simple web server way

Start any web server in "dist" directory, e.g. with Python

   $ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080

Application will be available at http://localhost:8080

In both cases static files (including bundled JS/CSS) will be served from "dist" directory.

Install dependencies:

   $ npm install

Install Bower dependencies:

   $ bower install

Run Grunt server task:

   $ grunt server

Application will be available at http://localhost:9500

Application is built with Grunt.

   $ npm install -g grunt-cli
   $ grunt

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