Freek Van der Herten has a post to his site showing you how to combine Vue.js and Laravel to make a dashboard, a simple way to display statistics and information in a "quick glance" format.

At Spatie we have tv screen against the wall that displays a dashboard. This dashboard displays the tasks that our team should be working on, important events in the near future, which music is playing at our office, and so on. We’ve opensourced our dashboard, so you can view the entire source code on GitHub. It is built with Laravel and Vue. In this post I’d like to explain why and how we made it.

He starts with a bit of history around their need for the dashboard and how previous versions (using Dashing) turned out. He gives a high level overview of what he was trying to accomplish and why he chose Vue.js. He then gets into the construction of the pieces of the dashboard:

• the grid
• the internet connection (server and client side)
• the package statistics component

He also talks about the security they added to the system (protecting the dashboard from outside eyes) and how they displayed it on a TV using a Raspberry Pi.