Meta-Dashboards: Accelerating Geospatial Web Apps Creation with Voilà
summary
The Joint Research Centre open-sources a Voila simplification library that composes ipywidgets, ipyvuetify, ipyleaflet, Plotly and bespoke SVG charts to produce full‑screen, multi‑page web apps. A meta-dashboards editor generates an .ipynb and JSON scaffold that developers drop into JupyterLab and extend; around 10–15 colleagues already build dashboards this way. Real deployments include Sherpa replacing a 1 GB desktop for ~700–800 researchers and FAIRMODE with linked map/chart interactivity; deployment runs via GitLab CI and a dynamic tile server so the apps actually work in production.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00JRC and research platform
- 2:11Voilà Simplification Library
- 8:19Meta-dashboards for non-developers
- 13:00Creating dashboards
- 18:19Air quality monitoring apps
- 24:04Future of Voilà dashboards
- 24:48Q&A
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