vx-bubo

Table of Contents

1. Warning
2. Configure
3. Using Bubo
   • Menu Options
4. Widget File Structure
5. widget.json
6. Ignore widget changes

Overview

Bubo is a CLI tool to help you develop Thingsboard Widgets locally by downloading a widget and working with it locally in your IDE of choice and publishing back to ThingsBoard.

⚠️ Warning

This tool is in early development and is not ready for production use. Use at your own risk. Currently, I am focused on feature implementation to help my daily workflow and there are very little guard rails but as my needs are meet will focus on documentation, tests and error handling.

Configure

You can manually configure bubo using the following or run npx vx-bubo -s fore the walkthough setup.

Manual

1. Create a file in the root of your project named bubo.config.js with the following:

{
  "thingsBoardHost": "http://127.0.0.1:8080",
  "dashboardWorkingDirectory": "dashboards",
  "widgetWorkingDirectory": "widgets"
}

1. Add the following to your .gitignore .bubo/* to prevent commiting the local working directory

Using Bubo

Usage: vx-bubo [options]

Your guide to develop Thingsboard locally

Options:
  -g,   --get                 Get widget(s)
  -p,   --push                Publish local widget(s)
  -pm,  --publish-modified    ⚠️ Publish all modified local widgets
  -sync --sync-widgets        Retrieve Remote Widget Sources
  -s,   --setup               Run the vx-bubo setup
  -h,   --help                display help for command

Menu Options

• vx-bubo
• Table of Contents
  • Overview
  • ⚠️ Warning
  • Configure
    • Manual
  • Using Bubo
    • Menu Options
      • Set ThingsBoard JWT token
      • Create Widget
      • Get Widget(s)
      • Publish Widgets
      • Publish Multiple Widgets
      • Publish Modified Widgets
      • Sync Widget Sources
      • Bundle Local Widget
      • Data Converters
      • Rule Chain
      • Dashboard
      • Cleanup
    • Widget File Structure
    • widget.json
    • Ignore widget changes

Set ThingsBoard JWT token

? 🦉 Lets get your Thingsboard Auth Token.
    1) Login to ThingsBoard
    2) Open this URL => https://www.mythingsboardsite.com/security
    3) Press the button "Copy JWT token" to copy the token to your clipboard

    Finished? (Y/n)

This will allow you to set your ThingsBoard JWT token in the config file. This token will be used to authenticate with ThingsBoard and will automatically manage the token refresh.

Create Widget

? 🦉 Select a Widget Bundle
 - Tenant Bundles -------
❯ Bubo Test
  Demo Bundle
 - System Bundles -------
  Air quality (system)
  Alarm widgets (system)
(Use arrow keys to reveal more choices)

1. First select the bundle to create a widget
2. Enter the name for the new widget
3. The select the type of widget to create
   • Time Series
   • Latest Values
   • Contol Widget
   • Alarm Widget
   • Static Widget
4. Select y if you would like to download and start development of this new widget

Get Widget(s)

? 🦉 How would you like to GET a widget? (Use arrow keys)
❯ Last Widget (00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000)
  By widgetId
  From Widget Bundle
💾 Use the widgetId of the previous GET

Download a local widget for development. This will create a directory in the widgetWorkingDirectory named after the widget and download the widget files into that directory.

Publish Widgets

? 🦉 Would you like to publish widget My Awesome Widget (00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000) ? (Y/n)

Package and publish a widget to ThingsBoard. This will create a new widget json and publish it to ThingsBoard.

Publish Multiple Widgets

? 🦉 What widgets would you like to publish? (Press <space> to select, <a> to toggle all, <i> to invert selection, and <enter> to proceed)
 - Modified Widgets -------
>(*) My Awesome Widget1 modified: about 1 hour ago
 (*) My Awesome Widget2 modified: 6 days ago
- Widgets -------
 ( ) My Awesome Widget3

Publish Modified Widgets

Bubo will look for any widget that has a modification after the last published timestamp and publish it to ThingsBoard. This is useful if you have multiple widgets and want to publish all the modified widgets at once.

Sync Widget Sources

Bundle Local Widget

Data Converters

Currently not implemented.

Rule Chain

Currently not implemented.

Dashboard

This is currently in testing, the most basic version is implemented. You can only publish the last specifed dashboardId.

Cleanup

Cleanup local Bubo files.

Currently not implemented.

Widget File Structure

• 📁 widgets (specified in bubo configuration file)
  • 📁 Tenant Bundle/Bundle Name/System
    • 📁 Widget Name
      • 📁 actions
        • 📁 actionCellButton
          • 📄 [Action Name].js
          • 📄 [Action Name].html
          • 📄 [Action Name].css
          • 📄 showWidgetActionFunction.js [optional]
        • 📁 headerButton
          • 📄 [Action Name].js
          • 📄 [Action Name].html
          • 📄 [Action Name].css
          • 📄showWidgetActionFunction.js [optional]
      • 📄 [widget_fqn].js
      • 📄 [widget_fqn].html
      • 📄 [widget_fqn].css
      • 📄 widget.json
      • 📄 settingsSchema.json [optional]
      • 📄 dataKeySettingsSchema.json [optional]

widget.json

The widget.json is a modified version of the widget source from ThingsBoard. Any changes to this file will be included in the json payload sent to ThingsBoards when publishing or bundling.

⚠️ Warning The following keys have been moved to a protected key to prevent making changes that could break the widget.

• id
• createdTime
• tenantId
• descriptor.defaultConfig

Ignore widget changes

If you would like to ignore changes to a local widget create an empty file .ignore in the root of the widget