This example illustrates loading of the dashboard from the server-side and saving the result to the mdc-file.

Installation and running
Use npm to install requred modules:

$ npm install

Run Sample:

$ npm start

Step by step
Required and Stimulsoft Dashboards.JS modules loading:

var http = require("http");
var fs = require('fs');

// Stimulsoft Dashboards module
var Stimulsoft = require('stimulsoft-dashboards-js');

Define the accept() function that will process requests to the server and output the desired result at a specific URL address - an HTML page, script and style files, a dashboard template:

function accept(req, res) {
    //Send index.html
    if (req.url == "/") {
	    res.writeHeader(200, { "Content-Type": "text/html" });
	    res.end(fs.readFileSync("index.html"));
    }
    //Send reports.js
    else if (req.url == "/stimulsoft.reports.js") {
	    res.writeHeader(200, { "Content-Type": "text/javascript" });
	    res.end(fs.readFileSync("node_modules/stimulsoft-dashboards-js/Scripts/stimulsoft.reports.js"));
    }
    //Send dashboards.js
    else if (req.url == "/stimulsoft.dashboards.js") {
	    res.writeHeader(200, { "Content-Type": "text/javascript" });
	    res.end(fs.readFileSync("node_modules/stimulsoft-dashboards-js/Scripts/stimulsoft.dashboards.js"));
    }
    //Send viewer.js
    else if (req.url == "/stimulsoft.viewer.js") {
	    res.writeHeader(200, { "Content-Type": "text/javascript" });
	    res.end(fs.readFileSync("node_modules/stimulsoft-dashboards-js/Scripts/stimulsoft.viewer.js"));
    }
    //Send dashboard
    else if (req.url == "/getDashboard") {
	    // Creating new dashboard
	    var report = Stimulsoft.Report.StiReport.createNewDashboard();
	    // Loading dashboard template
	    report.loadFile("Dashboard.mrt");

	    // Saving dashboard to JSON string
	    var dashboardJson = report.saveToJsonString();

	    //Send dashboard
	    res.end(dashboardJson);
    }
}

Start the server and specify the required port, in this case, 8888:

console.log("Static file server running at http://localhost:" + 8888 + "/\nCTRL + C to shutdown");
//The HTTP server run on port 8888
http.createServer(accept).listen(8888);

In the screenshot below you can see the result of the sample code: