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title: "DashboardPlugin"
generated: true
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This plugin serves the static files of the Vendure Dashboard and provides the
GraphQL extensions needed for the order metrics on the dashboard index page.
## Installation
`npm install @vendure/dashboard`
## Usage
First you need to set up compilation of the Dashboard, using the Vite configuration
described in the [Dashboard Getting Started Guide](/current/core/extending-the-dashboard/getting-started/)
## Development vs Production
When developing, you can run `npx vite` (or `npm run dev`) to start the Vite development server.
The plugin will automatically detect if Vite is running on the default port (5173) and proxy
requests to it instead of serving static files. This enables hot module replacement and faster
development iterations.
For production, run `npx vite build` to build the dashboard app. The built app files will be
output to the location specified by `build.outDir` in your Vite config file. This should then
be passed to the `appDir` init option, as in the example below:
*Example*
```ts
import { DashboardPlugin } from '@vendure/dashboard/plugin';
const config: VendureConfig = {
// Add an instance of the plugin to the plugins array
plugins: [
DashboardPlugin.init({
route: 'dashboard',
appDir: './dist/dashboard',
// Optional: customize Vite dev server port (defaults to 5173)
viteDevServerPort: 3000,
}),
],
};
```
## Metrics
This plugin defines a `metricSummary` query which is used by the Dashboard UI to
display the order metrics on the dashboard.
If you are building a stand-alone version of the Dashboard UI app, and therefore
don't need this plugin to serve the Dashboard UI, you can still use the
`metricSummary` query by adding the `DashboardPlugin` to the `plugins` array,
but without calling the `init()` method:
*Example*
```ts
import { DashboardPlugin } from '@vendure/dashboard-plugin';
const config: VendureConfig = {
plugins: [
DashboardPlugin, // <-- no call to .init()
],
// ...
};
```
```ts title="Signature"
class DashboardPlugin implements NestModule {
constructor(processContext: ProcessContext)
init(options: DashboardPluginOptions) => Type;
configure(consumer: MiddlewareConsumer) => ;
}
```
* Implements: NestModule
### init
\
DashboardPluginOptions) => Type<DashboardPlugin>`} />
Set the plugin options
### configure
\ `} />