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NeXt UI Framework

NeXt UI toolkit is an HTML5/JavaScript based toolkit for network web application. It provides a network centric topology UI component featuring high performance and rich functionality. NeXt can display large complex network topologies, aggregated network nodes, traffic/path/tunnel/group visualizations and it includes different layout algorithms, map overlays, and preset user friendly interactions. NeXt can work together with DLUX to build ODL apps.

Homepage : https://wiki.opendaylight.org/view/NeXt:Main

UI Toolkit Quicklook : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBsUDu8aucs

Current version : 1.0

Key Features

File structure

next/
  |- css/
  |  |- next.css // next stylesheet file
  |  |- next.min.css // minimized stylesheet file
  |  |- next-componentized.css
  |  |- next-componentized.min.css
  |- js
  |  |- next.js // next js library
  |  |- next.min.js // minimized js library
  |- fonts/ // font resources foler
  |  doc/ //APi manual
  |- README.md

Quick start

1) Create a HTML file.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/next.css">
        <script src="js/next.js"></script>
    </head>
    <body>
    <script type="text/javascript">
    //next code
    </script>
    </body>
</html>

2) Edit next code

// Initialize a topology component
var topo = new nx.graphic.Topology({
});

// Create new app
var app = new nx.ui.Application();

// Attach topo to app
topo.attach(app);

3) Open html file with Chrome

Tutorials and Sample code

Tutorials : https://wiki.opendaylight.org/view/NeXt:Main

Opendaylight sample code intergrate DLUX with NeXt: https://github.com/CiscoDevNet/opendaylight-sample-apps

BIERMAN : https://github.com/zverevalexei/bierman-gui

Build instructions from source code

Git : https://git.opendaylight.org/gerrit/p/next

Environment requirements

In order to build NeXt from sources, you must have Node.js installed.

After that, make sure to have Grunt installed. To do so, run:

npm install grunt

Build process

Who’s Using NeXt

Here we feature a few customers who choose NeXt framework as their topology visualization tool and use it in their products.

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Bugs

Open Bugs

Team