TilesDashboard.Backend

Overview

Purpose of Tiles Dashboard is to display various information about e.g. a project, home etc. as Tiles

Features

• Update tiles data via endpoints
• Update tiles data via Plugin system (Azure Code Coverage Plugin, Open Weather Plugin)
• Auto refresh of tiles on Frontend when new data are available

Examples of configured dashboard

Project	Apartment

Supported tiles

Percentage Tile

Weather Tile

Integer Tile

Money Tile

Time Tile

Technologies

• WebApi with .NET Core 3.0
• SignalR
• NoSQL database: MongoDB

Set up MongoDB

• Install MongoDB engine
• Install MongoDB Compass (GUI, something like SSMS)
• Add MongoDB bin to path (C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\4.2\bin)
• Run DB server (cmd): mongod --dbpath <data_directory_path>
• Run Compass and connect to localhost:27017
• Create Database TilesDatabase with Tiles collection
• Import data to this collection from proper json files in TilesDashboard.Core\Storage\Data directory