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What do you use as your app admin panel?

What do you use as your app admin panel?

on January 27, 2019
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    We use Forest Admin (https://www.forestadmin.com/) and have been pretty happy with it so far

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      What do you like about Forest Admin the most?

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        Pros

        • Freemium
        • We own the data
        • Fully customizable
        • Auto-detect tables, relations
        • Custom actions/views/graphs
        • Good UI
        • Write SQL query insider admin panel, it will generate the graph (paid)
        • Team collaboration (paid)
          Cons
        • You'll need to know Node.js to create custom actions, custom views and graphs
        • No support for MongoDB (supports Postgres, MySQL, SQLite and SQL Server)
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        Mostly the ability to directly connect with the DB and build buttons for custom backend/admin functionality as we evolve the business...Easy to get started and enough to get off the ground for our FB Messenger marketing tool

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    I've been happily using Retool for lots of stuff on the Indie Hackers backend. You need to be a developer to use it, and even so it has a bit of a learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, you can whip up complex tools very quickly, then share the URLs with non-technical people whose help you need.

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      I would love to see a screencast is how this works. Their on boarding confused me but I feel like if I saw it actually being wired up to real data it would click for me.

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        Here's a screencast I got after signing up. https://retool.wistia.com/medias/jgluf0m145

        'Free' for internal use is a pretty good price ;-)

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    Good information for me. I use the website http://essaypapers.reviews/

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    Thank you, guys! These tools are great. I found Forest Admin to be the easiest to use and setup.

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    You mean technology?

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      Yes! Do you use any for admin panels?

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    in 2017 I write admin panel myself with UI framwork specture.css https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/
    2. and then AdminLTE
    3. and then Ant Design Pro
    4. and then vue-element-admin

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      thanks for sharing vue-element-admin

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        why? you are the author?