Have you ever wasted time on building a custom admin?
There are a lot of out the box solutions can speed things up for you. Some worth looking at are:
- Forest Admin
- Retool
- React Admin
Forest Admin will generate an admin for you in under 5 minutes. It's not great if you need a lot of customisation although it can be customised to what you need most of the time.
Retool is great too. You can write any database queries you need to grab data direct and display it in Retool components.
The last tool is React Admin. Here you actually write frontend code but many of the components and frontend logic has been written for you.
Special mention to Airtable which can be used with care in specific cases. Be careful not to duplicate a lot of information from your real database. If things get out of sync it can be annoying to know what's accurate. I'd recommend not duplicating any data.
Final note: any third part service will help you get going quickly. But if you need a lot of customisation it may be worth to build your admin from scratch. Note that most of these solutions are for internal use, and not for client facing admin views.
Lastly, if you do choose to use a third party admin tool you can always build custom tools alongside it. You're not stuck with any specific tool, and can even use many of them in conjunction. There's no reason Retool and Forest Admin can't run side by side and you use whichever is easier for you at that moment.
Want to learn more? Here's the full video:
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