Grafana data source plugin for arbitrary JSON HTTP backend

The JSON Datasource executes requests against arbitrary backends and parses JSON response into Grafana dataframes. The project is based upon the archived project https://github.com/simPod/GrafanaJsonDatasource/

Getting started

Backend

1. Update Grafana plugin SDK for Go dependency to the latest minor version:

   go get -u github.com/grafana/grafana-plugin-sdk-go
   go mod tidy

2. Build plugin backend binaries for Linux, Windows and Darwin:

   mage -v

3. List all available Mage targets for additional commands:

   mage -l

Frontend

1. Install dependencies

   npm install

2. Build plugin in development mode and run in watch mode

   npm run dev

3. Build plugin in production mode

   npm run build

4. Run the tests (using Jest)

   # Runs the tests and watches for changes, requires git init first
   npm run test
   
   # Exits after running all the tests
   npm run test:ci

5. Spin up a Grafana instance and run the plugin inside it (using Docker)

   npm run server

6. Run the E2E tests (using Playwright)

   # Spins up a Grafana instance first that we tests against
   npm run server
   
   # If you wish to start a certain Grafana version. If not specified will use latest by default
   GRAFANA_VERSION=11.3.0 npm run server
   
   # Starts the tests
   npm run e2e

7. Run the linter

   npm run lint
   
   # or
   
   npm run lint:fix