Stop Building a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front End

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  • ActiveAdmin

    The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications.

  • I can't speak much about Rails, as I've only played with it. But I've used a lot Django in the past.

    Regarding the Django admin (in rails you have ActiveAdmin[1]) think if it just as a glorified database explorer. It is an internal tool for developers, product managers and maybe for your support team. It is in no way thought to be used by end users. Every attempt I've seen to use it as such was a catastrophic failure.

    With Django, if you know plain HTML and CSS, with the tools I've mentioned in the comment you're responding to, you can build almost anything... For example, let's say you need a highly interactive client side table.... you can always just attach a Vue or a React component for it by using Unpoly compilers [2].

    I'd say this stack is less useful the more your app needs to work fully offline... but if you don't have that constraint... I cannot think of anything that can't be built faster and safer.

    [1] https://activeadmin.info/

    [2] https://unpoly.com/up.compiler

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