Generic Admin tools

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I had ideas about generic admin via API, wrote a lot of plan on papers. Then I did market research and found https://tryretool.com/ which matches 70-80% of ideas I had.

I am now working on new ideas and plan give that tools a try because I love the ideas. It’s not just about CRUD which mostly deal with data layer schema and db tables. It’s /any /business_rule endpoint we create on the backend api. So it works with app level too.

Eh sounds like a sale man… I am not sure how far their app can go in administrative tasks.

I had a lot of out of sync business logic code between a separate ActiveAdmin and a core app (Rails). It’s going towards many extracted gems and tedious abstract gem api.

I kind of wish we had some kind of elixir admin node attached to the main node and does administrative tasks via normal message passing instead of REST(http) api.

:thinking:

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Haven‘t tried it yet, but Forest Admin looks interesting

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hey, thanks for mentioning Retool (I work there). We used Elixir a lot at my previous company, so it’s cool to see this come up here! Would love to hear how you’re getting on with using Retool — taimur@retool.in :slight_smile:

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That page is so deep in marketing I couldn’t answer a single question I had. Zero screens showing actual UI.

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Their user guide has a lot of detail and screenshots:
https://doc.forestadmin.com/user-guide.html

and they have a live demo here:
https://app.forestadmin.com/23065/data/806052/index

hope this helps!

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