Try the example dashboards that ship with Moonpool

Moonpool ships a set of self-contained dashboards inside the program. They run entirely offline, with no server and no CDN.

Dashboard	What it is
CSV explorer	Drop in a CSV or TSV file; it profiles the columns and renders the data.
JSON explorer	Drop in JSON (arrays, nested objects or maps).
Excel explorer	Drop in an `.xlsx` or `.xls` file, parsed offline.
Moonpool Docs	An offline Markdown docs browser.

Where they live

On startup Moonpool writes the dashboards to {MP_HOME}\dashboards\examples:

Mode	Folder
Installed (Windows)	`%USERPROFILE%\.moonpool\dashboards\examples`
Portable	`<your .moonpool folder, the one holding moonpool.exe>\dashboards\examples`
Linux	`~/.config/Moonpool/dashboards/examples` (or `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/Moonpool/dashboards/examples`)

The examples folder belongs to Moonpool: it is replaced whenever Moonpool updates, so edits there are lost. To customise a dashboard, copy its folder and the shared _lib folder up into dashboards and point your app at the copy. Moonpool never changes anything else in dashboards.

Versions before 0.3.16 wrote the examples straight into dashboards. Those copies stay where they are and no longer receive updates; apps pointing at them keep working. To get the updated versions, change their url to the dashboards/examples/... path below.

How the apps reference them

Each is a static app whose url is a file:/// URL anchored on {MP_HOME}:

file:///{MP_HOME}/dashboards/examples/csv/index.html

{MP_HOME} resolves to the install folder or, in portable mode, the bundle folder, so the entry still works from a moved bundle. file:// URLs are allowed. See Paths and environment.

Example apps appear only on first run

The example entries are written to apps.json only when no config file exists yet. If you already have an apps.json, add the dashboard entries yourself (Edit apps.json in the “…” menu, then Reload). Add these four inside the top-level array, separated from your other entries by commas:

{
  "id": "csv-explorer",
  "name": "Sample CSV Explorer",
  "group": "Dashboards",
  "type": "static",
  "url": "file:///{MP_HOME}/dashboards/examples/csv/index.html",
  "openBrowser": true
},
{
  "id": "json-explorer",
  "name": "Sample JSON Explorer",
  "group": "Dashboards",
  "type": "static",
  "url": "file:///{MP_HOME}/dashboards/examples/json/index.html",
  "openBrowser": true
},
{
  "id": "xlsx-explorer",
  "name": "Sample Excel Explorer",
  "group": "Dashboards",
  "type": "static",
  "url": "file:///{MP_HOME}/dashboards/examples/xlsx/index.html",
  "openBrowser": true
},
{
  "id": "docs-browser",
  "name": "Moonpool Docs",
  "group": "Docs",
  "type": "static",
  "url": "file:///{MP_HOME}/dashboards/examples/docs/index.html",
  "openBrowser": true
}

Field meanings are in App fields.

Try the example dashboards that ship with Moonpool

Where they live

How the apps reference them

Example apps appear only on first run

See also