Developer Tutorial #4: Create Dashboard Widgets with Vue.js

Post date

février 15, 2023

Nextcloud Dashboard

The Dashboard is where you start your day. You have your cup of coffee ☕ or tea 🍵 in hand, and are ready to start your work.

Who messaged you? Do you have an important email to answer? With Nextcloud Dashboard, you have a quick overview of everything happening in your Nextcloud and can get a productive head start to your day. It makes it easy to pick up where you left off on a project through the Deck widget, for example, or an upcoming Task.

There’s a whole variety of widgets to choose from, and with some practice you can even make your own!

Dashboard on Nextcloud instance with 8 different widgits: upcoming events, talk mentions, upcoming cards, important mail, recommended files, upcoming tasks, recent activity and unread mail.

Start Customizing your own Widget!

Have an idea for a new widget on your dashboard? After completing our fourth tutorial, you will know how to create widgets in Vue.js, an open source, front-end JavaScript model.

Vue.js is mainly utilized for building user interfaces and single-page applications and is known to be a progressive and approachable framework. Learn more about Vue.js here.

In the written tutorial, we first teach you how to create a simple dashboard widget using pure (or vanilla) Javascript and then you will learn how to do it successfully on Vue.js.