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Making a Dashboard

Most of the work done so far has focused on building microservices and making them interact with each other. It is time to bring humans into the equation, adding a User Interface (UI) through which our end users can use the system with a browser and change settings that may be awkward or unwise to do through Slack.

Modern web applications greatly rely on client-side JavaScript (JS, also known as ECMAScript). Some JS frameworks go all the way in terms of providing a full Model-View-Controller (MVC) system, which runs in the browser and manipulates the Document Object Model (DOM), the structured representation of the web page that is rendered in a browser.

The web development paradigm has shifted from rendering everything ...

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