Deploy the Dashboard Locally

Introduction
Prerequisites
Create an SSH Tunnel
VSCode SSH Remote Connection
Set the VM
Build the Dashboard

Introduction

We show how to deploy the Dashboard (devnet) on a full VM. To do so, we set an SSH tunnel and use the VSCodium Remote Explorer function. We will then be able to use a source-code editor to explore the code and see changes on a local browser.

Prerequisites

TFChain account with TFT
Deploy full VM with WireGuard connection
Make sure you can connect via SSH on the terminal

Create an SSH Tunnel

Open a terminal and create an SSH tunnel

ssh -4 -L 5173:127.0.0.1:5173 root@10.20.4.2

Simply leave this window open and follow the next steps.

VSCode SSH Remote Connection

You can connect via SSH through the source-code editor to a VM on the grid. In this example, WireGuard is set.

Add the SSH Remote extension to VSCodium
Add a new SSH remote connection
Set the following (adjust with your own username and host)
```
Host 10.20.4.2
    HostName 10.20.4.2
    User root
```
Click on Connect to host

Set the VM

We set the VM to be able to build the Dashboard.


apt update && apt install build-essential python3 -y

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.7/install.sh | bash

export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"

[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" # This loads nvm

[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" # This loads nvm bash_completion

nvm install 18

apt install wget

npm install -g yarn

Build the Dashboard

We now build the Dashboard.

Clone the repository, then install, build and run the Dashboard. Note that here it is called playground:


git clone https://github.com/threefoldtech/tfgrid-sdk-ts

cd tfgrid-sdk-ts/

yarn install

make build

make run project=playground

You can then access the dev net Dashboard on your local browser.

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