How to Setup Parse Dashboard on Ubuntu 16.04

Parse Dashboard:
Parse Dashboard is a standalone dashboard for managing your Parse apps. You can use it to manage your Parse Server.

Requirement: 

To install and configure Parse dashboard make sure have already have setup Parse server

Step 1- Download and Install Parse Dashboard.
To install Parse dashboard, you much have installed nodejs and npm on your system. Now use command below to install Parse dashboard. 

root@Server16:/opt# npm install -g parse-dashboard

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After successful installation of parse dashboard create a configuration file for parse dashboard. let's use command below to create separate directory. 

 mkdir parse-dashboard && cd parse-dashboard

Now Create a json config file for your test App.

root@Server16:/opt/parse-dashboard# vi parse-dashboard-config.json

Now append following line and change your APP_ID, Master_key, appname, User and password.

{
  "apps": [
    {
      "serverURL": "http://SERVER_IP:1337/parse",
      "appId": "myappkey",
      "masterKey": "mymasterkey",
      "appName": "App_Name"
    }
  ],
  "users": [
      {
           "user":"amar",
           "pass":"password"
      }
  ]
}

Save and exit from the file.

Step 2- Start your parse dashboard.

After successful installation of parse dashboard, start dashboard using command below.

 parse-dashboard --config parse-dashboard-config.json --allowInsecureHTTP false

Let's access your dashboard at http://server_IP:4040

http://192.168.102.11:4040/login

Your Parse dashboard is ready, please login and start using. After login to dashboard your view would be like below.

Parse dashboard is ready with your application.
How to keep running parse dashboard and start at system boot up-  Keep Parse dashboard running in the background