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Administrate
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The Admin Framework for Minimalist
thoughtbot/administrate is a well-known framework for administrative screen, but it's not developer friendlyăI implement my own template files for Administrate, so when new Administrate version released, It is hard to update Administrate because template file is changed.**
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Get help from thoughtbot for free (mentoring / office hours)
I work at thoughtbot, you might know us for our open source work like administrate, factory_bot or shoulda-matchers.
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Show HN: Build Ruby on Rails apps 10x faster â Avo
This looks very similar to Administrate by thoughtbot https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate
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From partials to ViewComponents: writing reusable front-end code in Rails
We briefly considered migrating to a full-grown Rails admin interface, such as ActiveAdmin, RailsAdmin, Administrate or Avo. We especially liked Avo which is built on a very modern stack similar to ours (Tailwind + Hotwire + ViewComponents). In the end, we didnât go this route as we found some of the options a bit too restrictive (even though Avo is very flexible) and we did not feel like trying to amend it to our needs. For example, Avo renders forms in a 1-field-per-row layout while we wanted something more similar to the Tailwind UI Stacked form layout. Nevertheless, we found a great deal of inspiration in the Avo code and its design principles.
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Rails administrate : big tutorial, bits of philosophy
We have already covered many use cases for customisation, everything else can be found in the official documentation.
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Admin Framework for Rails
Administrate
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10 things I add to every Rails app
I usually tend to create these from Scratch, but moving forward Iâve started to use thoughtbotâs administrate gem. It sticks to the Rails conventions of controllers and routing, so itâs easy to customise and add new functionality to.
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Free trial feature
That's exactly what we do. Easy to extend trials as needed for users when needed too via https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate
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Rails Admin or Active Admin?
Documentation https://administrate-demo.herokuapp.com/
Forest Admin
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PostgreSQL data types and more
Forest Admin is an admin panel solution that saves your back-end engineers time and gives your operational teams more autonomy. Our highly customizable admin panel connects to your databases and APIs to ease your operations so that you can focus more on your business and less on backend operations.
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Show HN: Retool Mobile
Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Forest Admin.
I couldn't agree more with this statement. The issue isn't that internal tool builders lack a feature to do it, I think the problem is deeper and comes from the way they are designed.
Most of them allow you to build the frontend (web or mobile here) without providing any backend code. They provide you with an integration library, whether it's connecting to a third-party SaaS or to your backend code. But that's where it ends.
With [Forest Admin](https://www.forestadmin.com), we have a completely different architecture. All the backend code is automatically generated with the UI, allowing you to be up and running in a few minutes.
This has allowed us to provide a rich development workflow environment both on the backend (the code is yours and runs on your own machine, so you can use your Git without changing your habits) and on the frontend. This gives you the ability to fork a branch from your production environment to a dev environment, make your changes, merge them on a staging before pushing to prod, etc.
This command line is heavily inspired by Git but allows you to have a dev workflow that works for collaborating with large dev teams on your admin panel. (+100 at our largest customer).
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Je m'ennuie Ă mourir en startup
https://www.forestadmin.com https://www.gravitee.io/
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Running Node.js on AWS serverless with Fargate
I didn't have a spare node app sitting around, so I found Forest Admin. This is actually a cool product which provides the simplicity of dashboard tools like ActiveAdmin or Retool, but preserves the privacy of the data by having you self-host the backend. The backend exposes an API that is used by the frontend client, i.e. your browser, so data doesn't need to move through Forest Admin's servers. Here's a nice graphic to visualize how this works:
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Experiences with low-code systems (Budibase,Appsmith etc.)?
Disclaimer: I'm the founder of (Forest Admin)[https://www.forestadmin.com].
Wow, I'm impressed by the number of solutions out there. Back at the beginning of Forest Admin, we were alone on the market, which is generally not a good sign. But our perseverance paid off, and it was definitely worth it in the end!
Alright, so why Forest Admin? :)
Because we only focus on the admin panel use case. Not the entire internal tools world. In this way, we are able to provide a fully-featured SaaS Admin panel out of the box. No need to build it, nor with code, nor with low/no code tools.
Even if your app, internal processes and so your admin panel is specific, we have designed our solution accordingly with 2 things that are part of our DNA from the beginning:
1/ We generate all the backend code required to an admin panel. All CRUD routes, filtering & search, dashboarding, permissions, etc. Everything is automatically generated in a few seconds based on datasource introspection. In the end, the generated code is just a standard REST API, so you can extend/override it without any limitations.
2/ We pre-built the admin UI with every admin standard features available out of the box, with a big focus on providing a great UI/UX possible for operational people. We obviously also provide all the low/no code features to customize pretty much anything. We also provide a feature called "Workspace" (which is generally the core of what our competitors do) that allow users build custom views using drag'n'drop of UI components from scratch.
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Ask HN: What's is your go to toolset for simple front end development?
For home-lab/internal UIs, you can go a long way with the auto-generated model-admin pages from Django. If you just need CRUD and actions triggered on a list of models, you can typically avoid any UI work and just define a few Admin classes, and if you need to make custom forms it's quite easy using Django's templating machinery to override individual pages.
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/ref/contrib/admin/
A similar modular admin system that's more generic is https://www.forestadmin.com/, I think this one has a layout editor too. But that one requires a REST API and so it may require more plumbing, depending on what you've already built. Or it could fit nicely on top of what you already have, if you already have APIs for everything.
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What is a CRUD app and how to build one?
In this blog, we'll see how to build a CRUD app with Forest Admin. We'll assume you're building a CRUD app for a PostgreSQL database.
- Build one internal tool for all your data | Forest Admin
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Large documents in redis: does it worth compressing them (Part 1)
At Forest Admin, we build admin panels for which we need to compute and cache large JSON documents. These documents are stored in redis and retrieved from this storage in order to be as fast as possible.
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Extract-Transform-Load with RxJS: save time and memory with backpressure
At Forest Admin, we recently faced this issue to move data from a Postgresql database to ElasticSearch.
What are some alternatives?
ActiveAdmin - The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications.
react-admin - A frontend Framework for building data-driven applications running on top of REST/GraphQL APIs, using TypeScript, React and Material Design
RailsAdmin - RailsAdmin is a Rails engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing your data
Trestle - A modern, responsive admin framework for Ruby on Rails
Avo - Build Ruby on Rails apps 10x faster
appsmith - Platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 25+ databases and any API.
Upmin Admin - Framework for creating powerful admin backends with minimal effort in Ruby on Rails.
Directus - The Modern Data Stack đ° â Directus is an instant REST+GraphQL API and intuitive no-code data collaboration app for any SQL database.
Godmin - Admin framework for Rails 5+