# Freeboard/freeboard

A damn-sexy, open source real-time dashboard builder for IOT and other web mashups. A free open-source alternative to Geckoboard.

Repository: https://github.com/Freeboard/freeboard
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/freeboard
Homepage: http://freeboard.io
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2023-09-23T21:14:02+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4784, "days_push": 1075, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6504, forks 1178 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:43.907471+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: data-visualization, ui-components, plugin-system, web-scraping
- domain: data-visualization, iot, web-development, analytics
- platform: browser
- tags: dashboard-builder, iot-dashboard, real-time, geckoboard-alternative, single-page-app, datasource-plugins, widgets, web-server, javascript, nodejs

## Member repositories
- Freeboard/freeboard (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:43.907471+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:44:28.584608+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Freeboard/freeboard (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:43.907471+00:00, sha c37db38ecb3d)
  - homepage: http://freeboard.io (fetched 2026-08-29T08:41:00.422153+00:00, sha 96e9a87959ef)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/freeboard (fetched 2026-08-29T08:41:00.431788+00:00, sha b65956b786f9)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.