Ask HN: Why aren't Django Admin style dashboards popular in other frameworks?

1. payload

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   Payload is the open-source, fullstack Next.js framework, giving you instant backend superpowers. Get a full TypeScript backend and admin panel instantly. Use Payload as a headless CMS or for building powerful applications.

   

2. InfluxDB

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3. ActiveAdmin

   2 25 9,581 9.1 Ruby

   The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications.

   

   Can you clarify what's the "tremendous value" you're getting out of the Django admin?

   At Heii On-Call https://heiioncall.com/ we are using Active Admin https://activeadmin.info/ for Ruby on Rails, which seems quite similar to the Django admin. In my experience, it's mostly useful as a fairly basic read-only view of what's in the database. In Rails, it's so easy to whip together a custom view that we tend to do that, and the Active Admin is nice to have but I wouldn't say "tremendous value".

4. kaffy

   3 8 1,395 5.4 Elixir

   Powerfully simple admin package for phoenix applications

   

   Phoenix has Kaffy: https://github.com/aesmail/kaffy

   Super-simple to set up and it's been perfectly adequate for my app's needs so far.

   To answer OP's original question: Django Admin isn't a killer feature because the same kind of thing is available for most other Django-like frameworks, with the only difference being that it's usually a third party library rather than something built into the framework itself.

5. django-unfold

   4 10 2,524 9.7 HTML

   Elevate your Django admin with a stunning modern interface, powerful features, and seamless user experience - without compromising functionality.

   

   It is not just a UI just for CRUD. You can easily add custom actions (calls to web services, export/imports, heavy background tasks that operate on a row or collections of rows), filters, related tables with custom behavior, display custom derived/calculated values, etc. Additionally, you can skin it easily - and in some cases, even create dashboards in a very simple manner. Check out out Django Unfold for an example https://github.com/unfoldadmin/django-unfold

6. RailsAdmin

   5 9 7,928 7.2 Ruby

   RailsAdmin is a Rails engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing your data

   

7. core-admin

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   Fully automatic admin site CRUD UI generator for ASP.NET Core and .NET 8

   

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