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Wednesday, 31 October 2018 09:13

Smashing framework

Smashing is a Sinatra based framework, used to build beautiful and impressive dashboards. The project is a fork of Dashing, an excellent framework created by Shopify for displaying custom dashboards on TVs around their offices.

Smashing has a drag & drop interface for re-arranging the widgets positions and many premade widgest, ready to be used. Developers can also build custom widgets, to display data from multiple sources (Simple Ruby DSL for fetching data from databases or online resources).

The official Smashing page is here →.

Here is a live demo → of a simple dashboard with realtime update. You can host your Smashing dashboards on Heroku in less than 30 seconds.
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Tuesday, 16 May 2017 13:08

Dashing framework

Dashing is a mature dashboard framework, based on Sinatra, used to build very beautiful dashboards. It's frequently used to display dashboards on TV screens in offices.

Here are the main features:
  • use premade widgets, or fully create your own with scss, html, and coffeescript
  • widgets harness the power of data bindings to keep things simple. Powered by batman.js
  • use the API to push data to your dashboards, or make use of a simple ruby DSL for fetching data
  • drag & Drop interface for re-arranging your widgets
  • host your dashboards on Heroku in less than 30 seconds
The project was created at Shopify for displaying custom dashboards on TV screens.

Example 1 link - Example 2 (TV screen) link

More information on the project website.
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