# New to red-dashboard

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/new-to-red-dashboard/5940>\
**Category:** Dashboard\
**Created:** [18 December 2018 14:52 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/new-to-red-dashboard/5940 "2018-12-18T14:52:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![texxxo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@texxxo](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/texxxo)\
**Post date:** [18 December 2018 14:52 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/new-to-red-dashboard/5940/1 "2018-12-18T14:52:08Z")

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Hello, I'm new to red-dashboard and I'm trying to run the dashboard in my browser for the last 3 hours without success so I decided to create his topic here.

After installation via inpm i node-red-dashboard I have only this,

node\_modules, package-lock.json, package.json

Inside node modules is the red-dashoboard, I tried to get the UI to the browser via node ui.js & node index.js

then I tried  
~ $node-red-start  
node-red-dashboard-start  
~/.node-red-start

So can anyone tell me how to bring this UI up and running? Thanks

And my next question is, I want this dashboard to be the UI of my Node.js WebApp is this possible?

I want that users that are visiting my site can Add/Edit/Delete Widgets, and inside the widgets need to come in data from an api. Is this possible with red-dashboard?

Thanks 🙂

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**Author:** ![ukmoose](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/ukmoose/32/13_2.png) [@ukmoose](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ukmoose)\
**Post date:** [18 December 2018 14:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/new-to-red-dashboard/5940/2 "2018-12-18T14:58:13Z")

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The node-red-dashboard is not mutual-tenant as per the ReadMe. All users see the same thing and that is  
preconfigured, the one user cannot select which widgets to display

How to display the dashboard? I answered i. the other thread you also posted o.

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**Author:** ![texxxo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@texxxo](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/texxxo)\
**Post date:** [18 December 2018 15:00 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/new-to-red-dashboard/5940/3 "2018-12-18T15:00:52Z")

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you said this

> Provided you have the dashboard nodes installed and at least one has been configured in a flow. Then you should point a web-browser on the same network to http://:1880/ui

This helps me zero! Tell me what file to run in my terminal so http://:1880/ui is up and running

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**Author:** ![JayDickson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/jaydickson/32/90592_2.png) [@JayDickson](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/JayDickson)\
**Post date:** [18 December 2018 15:12 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/new-to-red-dashboard/5940/4 "2018-12-18T15:12:40Z")

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Do you have node-RED itself installed?

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**Author:** ![ukmoose](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/ukmoose/32/13_2.png) [@ukmoose](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ukmoose)\
**Post date:** [18 December 2018 15:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/new-to-red-dashboard/5940/5 "2018-12-18T15:15:59Z")

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between ihttp:// and : add the up address

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**Author:** ![texxxo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@texxxo](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/texxxo)\
**Post date:** [18 December 2018 15:20 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/new-to-red-dashboard/5940/6 "2018-12-18T15:20:49Z")

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@JayDickson Yes i installed it with **npm i node-red-dashboard**

@ukmoose I run it on localhost, I know what to put in the browser field, I need to know how to run it.

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**Author:** ![JayDickson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/jaydickson/32/90592_2.png) [@JayDickson](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/JayDickson)\
**Post date:** [18 December 2018 15:24 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/new-to-red-dashboard/5940/7 "2018-12-18T15:24:08Z")

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In a console, run "node-red" without quotes. Don't close the console. Copy paste your output in a reply here. If you get anything to come up, go to 127.0.0.1:1880 on a browser on the same machine you're running it on (assuming you have a gui.)

What hardware are you running on? What OS are you running on?

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**Author:** ![texxxo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@texxxo](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/texxxo)\
**Post date:** [18 December 2018 15:29 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/new-to-red-dashboard/5940/8 "2018-12-18T15:29:33Z")

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**ERROR IN CONSOLE**

> - node-red
> - 
> 
> ```auto
> + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (node-red:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
> + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
> 
> ```

I have an Windows10 , I7, 64 bit, 16gb,

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**Author:** ![JayDickson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/jaydickson/32/90592_2.png) [@JayDickson](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/JayDickson)\
**Post date:** [18 December 2018 15:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/new-to-red-dashboard/5940/9 "2018-12-18T15:31:32Z")

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What version of node.js?

`node -v` in console

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**Author:** ![texxxo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@texxxo](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/texxxo)\
**Post date:** [18 December 2018 15:33 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/new-to-red-dashboard/5940/10 "2018-12-18T15:33:34Z")

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I was thikning node red dashboard is a standalone tool for building a dashboard, I found now [https://nodered.org/](https://nodered.org/)

I was trying the whole time to run it without having node-red....node-red is not what i was searching for. Thanks anyway

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**Author:** ![JayDickson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/jaydickson/32/90592_2.png) [@JayDickson](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/JayDickson)\
**Post date:** [18 December 2018 15:34 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/new-to-red-dashboard/5940/11 "2018-12-18T15:34:48Z")

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That's what I suspected.