AdminForth - fully free Node.js admin panel framework on Vue & Tailwind

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Why AdminForth:

• AdminForth is always free and open-source (no paid versions, no cloud subscriptions sh*t)
• Init AdminForth with your database URL in Node.js file, easily describe the tables you wish to see in admin, and get fully functional UI for your data (filter, create, edit, remove)
• Define Vue components to change look of various parts of admin (place in data cell, instead of row, add something above the table, inject something to header or sidebar, add custom page with charts or custom components)
• Rich build-in Components library (AdminForth AFCL) with premade easy-to-use build-blocks which follow your theme
• Define express APIs and call them from your components and pages
• Use various modern back-office-must-have plugins like audit log, files/image upload, TOTP 2FA, I18N, Copilot-style AI writing and image generation

Project initialisation

mkdir myadmin && cd myadmin
npx adminforth create-app

Previews

Custom Dashboard

Chat-GPT plugin

Image DALEE Generation

For developers

The most convenient way to add new features or fixes is using dev-demo. It imports the source code of the repository and plugins so you can edit them and see changes on the fly.

Fork repo, pull it and do next:

cd adminforth
npm ci
npm run build

To run dev demo:

cd dev-demo
cp .env.sample .env

# this will install all official plugins and link adminforth package, if plugin installed it will git pull and npm ci
npm run install-plugins

# same for official adapters
npm run install-adapters

npm ci
npm run migrate
npm start

Adding columns to a database in dev-demo

Open .prisma file, modify it, and run:

npm run namemigration -- --name desctiption_of_changes

Testing CLI commands during development

Make sure you have not adminforth globally installed. If you have it, remove it:

npm uninstall -g adminforth

Then, in the root of the project, run once:

cd adminforth/adminforth
npm run build

This will automatically make an npm link to the adminforth package in the root of the project.

Then, go to testing app, e.g. created with CLI, and use next command:

npx -g adminforth <your command under development>

This will always run latest version of adminforth package.