Freeboard is an open source IoT dashboard that allows users to easily create and customize real-time dashboards for data visualization. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the process of installing Freeboard on Kali Linux Latest.
Before you begin, make sure you have the following:
The first step is to install Node.js and NPM on your system. Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine, and NPM is the package manager for Node.js.
To install Node.js and NPM on your system, run the following command:
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs npm
Next, clone the Freeboard GitHub repository using the following command:
git clone https://github.com/Freeboard/freeboard.git
This will download the Freeboard source code on your system.
After cloning the repository, navigate to the Freeboard directory and run the following command to install all the dependencies:
cd freeboard
npm install
Once the dependencies are installed, you can start Freeboard by running the following command:
npm start
This will start the Freeboard server and the dashboard will be accessible from your web browser.
To access the Freeboard dashboard, open your web browser and type "localhost:8080" in the address bar. This will open the dashboard on your browser.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Freeboard on Kali Linux Latest. Now you can create beautiful real-time dashboards for data visualization effortlessly.
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