# FlexDash: towards a new dashboard for Node-Red

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**Created:** [18 May 2021 20:04 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/flexdash-towards-a-new-dashboard-for-node-red/45879 "2021-05-18T20:04:29Z")\
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> [@BartButenaers](#):
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> I could try to convert once the client AngularJs part of my nodes to e.g. Vue, but I simply don't have the free time to rewrite my nodes from scratch (which I think I need to do when the server side config screen is dropped).

Ah, thanks for providing some details. I believe that what you describe is different from what I imagined. If you look at the TimePlotRaw widget it really has 2 inputs: options and data. The options are a JSON data structure that describes the series to plot, the axes, etc. The data is just the raw data.  
So something needs to send this widget a well-formed options JSON. I wrote a TimePlot (no "Raw") widget that uses the FlexDash input configuration to set some of the options: labels, axes min/max, some colors, etc. Internally it constructs the options JSON and passes it to a TimePlotRaw widget. I could have just as well written a TimePlotNode, i.e., a Node-RED node, that presents the same kind of configuration of labels, axes, etc in NR and then outputs the JSON that can be sent to a FlexDash TimePlotRaw widget.

So if you look at one of your nodes, do you generate angular html on-the-fly as the user changes settings, or do the settings just translate into a message that you send to the front-end angular code? If it's the latter, then that's really not that different from the TimePlot stuff... Maybe you can point me at a sample UI node of yours to look at?

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