Freeboard is a web-based dashboard tool that lets you visualize and analyze data for your IoT (Internet of Things) projects. If you are looking to install this tool on EndeavourOS (Linux distro), you can follow the steps mentioned below.
Open the terminal on EndeavourOS and run the following command to update the packages to the latest version:
sudo pacman -Syu
Freeboard requires NodeJS and npm to be installed on your system. Run the following command in the terminal to install them:
sudo pacman -S nodejs npm
Clone the Freeboard repository from GitHub by running the following command:
git clone https://github.com/Freeboard/freeboard.git
Move to the cloned directory by running the following command:
cd freeboard
Now, install the dependencies for Freeboard by running the following command:
npm install
Build Freeboard using the following command:
npm run build
Start the Freeboard server by running the following command:
npm start
Open your web browser and go to the address mentioned below:
http://localhost:8080/
You should now have Freeboard up and running on your EndeavourOS system.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Freeboard on your EndeavourOS Latest system.
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