Freeboard/freeboard

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Freeboard is an open-source, browser-based real-time dashboard builder and viewer for IoT and web mashups, serving as a free alternative to Geckoboard. It provides a plugin architecture for datasources and widgets, runs entirely client-side as a static single-page app, and exposes a JavaScript API for programmatic control.

Use cases

• build a real-time IoT dashboard without a backend server
• visualize sensor data from embedded devices in a browser
• create a free alternative to Geckoboard for status dashboards
• mash up multiple JSON APIs into one dashboard
• embed a lightweight dashboard front-end on a limited embedded device
• display live weather or device metrics with custom widgets

When to choose

• you need a client-side dashboard that runs without any server infrastructure
• you want a plugin architecture to add custom datasources and widgets
• you need a front-end for embedded or IoT devices with limited serving capability
• you want a free, self-hosted Geckoboard alternative

When to avoid

• you need server-side features like user management, database persistence, or public/private dashboards out of the box
• you require a modern framework stack or active feature development
• you need enterprise-grade dashboard tooling with extensive built-in integrations

Facets

application · maturity maintenance

data-visualization ui-components plugin-system web-scraping data-visualization iot web-development analytics browser dashboard-builder iot-dashboard real-time geckoboard-alternative single-page-app datasource-plugins widgets web-server javascript nodejs

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