# Understanding the new dashboard?
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/understanding-the-new-dashboard/99376
**Category:** General
**Created:** [13 October 2025 17:27 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/understanding-the-new-dashboard/99376 "2025-10-13T17:27:43Z")
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### Author:  [@Nodi.Rubrum](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Nodi.Rubrum)
#### Post date: [13 October 2025 17:27 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/understanding-the-new-dashboard/99376/1 "2025-10-13T17:27:43Z")
Understanding the new dashboard? So is it local or cloud based? I am of course asking about the @flowfuze/node-red-dashboard. I do not want to create anything cloud based for a simple UI for my local flows.
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [13 October 2025 17:49 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/understanding-the-new-dashboard/99376/2 "2025-10-13T17:49:53Z")
It is local to your node-red server. That could, of course, could be a cloud instance of node-red and that includes the FlowFuse cloud.
But basically, D2 is local to your node-red installation.
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### Author:  [@Nodi.Rubrum](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Nodi.Rubrum)
#### Post date: [13 October 2025 18:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/understanding-the-new-dashboard/99376/3 "2025-10-13T18:15:44Z")
Thx, just wanted to confirm it was only local by default, i.e. the dashboard, when my NR instance is local.
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [13 October 2025 18:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/understanding-the-new-dashboard/99376/4 "2025-10-13T18:58:48Z")
Yup. I think that one or two of the contributed extensions might not be totally local, though that might have been changed, not sure as I don't use Dashboard really.
I _can_ say that UIBUILDER is totally localised with no external dependencies. You can also locally install 3rd-party front-end libraries not only from the Internet but from anywhere that `npm` allows which includes custom repositories, local folders and even tar files.
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### Author:  [@Nodi.Rubrum](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Nodi.Rubrum)
#### Post date: [13 October 2025 20:54 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/understanding-the-new-dashboard/99376/5 "2025-10-13T20:54:26Z")
Yeah... I am going to look at UIBUILDER as well. Just trying to catch up on the new UI options... since I have been away from NR for a while. Have a number of flows I want to revise and update that I have been using for years... and they are showing their age... so to speak.
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [14 October 2025 08:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/understanding-the-new-dashboard/99376/6 "2025-10-14T08:02:20Z")
Just shout out if you want any help with UIBUILDER. 😃
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### Author:  [@Nodi.Rubrum](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Nodi.Rubrum)
#### Post date: [14 October 2025 14:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/understanding-the-new-dashboard/99376/7 "2025-10-14T14:38:11Z")
@TotallyInformation... Will do! I am still playing around with 2.0 but maybe next week will look at it.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [12 January 2026 14:39 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/understanding-the-new-dashboard/99376/8 "2026-01-12T14:39:08Z")
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