The Mongoose Wizard is a device dashboard for ESP32-based projects that can help programmers develop a web-based GUI for administration, reporting and updates without web front-end development experience.
The article describes the steps involved in setting up a development environment and creating a dashboard layout, while the associated video demonstrates how to add pages, build and test the firmware and attach user-interface controls to the hardware.
The generated firmware includes an embedded web server for serving the dashboard and delivering its REST interface, with support for OTA updates.
While the ESP32 is mentioned as a microcontroller device, Mongoose also supports a range of other devices including Pi Pico and STM Neucleo boards, demonstrating a lot of flexibility.
The article also draws attention to the importance of supporting OTA functionality for updates, albeit possible in other ways, and ends by linking to previous Hackaday coverage of related topics.
Overall, this is a great introduction to the benefits of using Mongoose Wizard for web-based GUI development.
