# Apache Flink Web Dashboard The web dashboard is work in progress towards the new Flink runtime monitor. In particular, it will provide the following missing features of the current web dashboard: - Live progress monitoring (via live accumulators) - A graph view of the program, as it is executed. - A REST style API to access the status of individual jobs. - A more modular design The dashboard listens at `http://localhost:8081`. The new web dashboard is work in progress. It starts an HTTP server (by default at port 8081) that serves the new web pages and additional background requests. ## Server Backend The server side of the dashboard is implemented using [Netty](http://netty.io) with [Netty Router](https://github.com/sinetja/netty-router) for REST paths. The framework has very lightweight dependencies. The code is regular Java code built via Maven. To add additional request handlers, follow the example of the `org.apache.flink.runtime.webmonitor.handlers.JobSummaryHandler`. ## Dashboard Frontend The web dashboard is implemented using *Angular*. The dashboard build infrastructure uses *node.js*. ### Preparing the Build Environment Depending on your version of Linux, Windows or MacOS, you may need to manually install *node.js* #### Ubuntu Linux Install *node.js* by following [these instructions](https://nodejs.org/en/download/). Verify that the installed version is at least *10.9.0*, via `node --version`. #### MacOS First install *brew* by following [these instructions](http://brew.sh/). Install *node.js* via: ``` brew install node ``` ### Building The build process downloads all requires libraries via the *node.js* package management tool (*npm*) The final build tool is *@angular/cli*. ``` cd flink-runtime-web/web-dashboard npm install npm run build ``` The dashboard code is under `/src`. The result of the build process is under `/web`. ### Developing When developing the dashboard, every change needs to recompile the files and update the server: ``` cd flink-runtime-web/web-dashboard npm run build cd ../../flink-dist mvn -DskipTests clean package ``` To simplify continuous development, one can use a *standalone proxy server*, together with automatic re-compilation: 1. Start the proxy server via `npm run proxy` (You can modify the proxy target in the `proxy.conf.json`, the default proxy target is `localhost:8081`) 2. Access the dashboard at [`http://localhost:4200`](http://localhost:4200) ### CodeStyle & Lint ```bash $ npm run lint ``` ### Dependency - Framework: [Angular](https://angular.io) - CLI Tools: [Angular CLI](https://cli.angular.io) - UI Components: [NG-ZORRO](https://github.com/NG-ZORRO/ng-zorro-antd)