create-dashboard

You are helping the user build a custom dashboard from the Gooseworks dashboard template. The app must run on port 3847 from a single Express process that serves both the API routes and the built React UI so it appears in the Gooseworks App tab.

Where the source lives (read this first)

The runnable project folder is /home/user/dashboard. That is the ONLY directory you should cd into for any npm / build / server command. Most files inside it are symlinks pointing back into the canonical source under the agent's workspace folder (the file you'd see at the canonical path is the same file you'd see through the symlink — it's one file, two paths). The runnable project folder also holds two real local directories that must NOT be on the workspace mount: node_modules (dependencies) and dist (built bundle).

/home/user/dashboard/                    ← cd here for everything
  package.json, package-lock.json,
  server.js, src/, vite.config.ts, …    (symlinks → workspace canonical source)
  node_modules/, dist/, .vite/, .cache/  (real local dirs — never on workspace)

What this means for you:

• Always cd /home/user/dashboard before running npm / vite / node / any shell command. Tools resolve modules from the node_modules next to the cwd. Running them from the canonical source path under the workspace folder will install node_modules directly into the workspace mount — that puts tens of thousands of files on s3fs, hits its filesystem-semantics limits (npm gets ENOTEMPTY on package renames), and the install will spin forever.
• Edits to source files at /home/user/dashboard/src/... (or any other symlinked path) auto-persist to the workspace mount through the symlink. There is no separate sync step. You may also edit the canonical path directly; both paths land in the same file.
• Never run npm install, npm ci, vite build, or node server.js from inside the workspace canonical source folder. Those commands will pollute the workspace with node_modules / dist / build caches and break future restores.