Create an Admin in a few minutes

https://adminbro.com

We will play with AdminBro to create our CRUD

Enviroment

We will need

1. Code Editor
2. Node.js
3. Mongo
4. Terminal

Start with AdminBro

1. Create structure

   mkdir project
   cd project
   touch admin.js

2. Install dependencies

   npm i admin-bro @admin-bro/express express express-formidable

3. admin.js

   // ============================================
   // Admin Bro
   const AdminBro = require('admin-bro')
   const AdminBroExpress = require('@admin-bro/express')
   
   const adminBro = new AdminBro({
     databases: [],
     rootPath: '/admin',
   })
   
   const router = AdminBroExpress.buildRouter(adminBro)
   
   // ============================================
   // Server
   const express = require("express");
   const server = express();
   
   server
     .use(adminBro.options.rootPath, router)
     .listen(5500, () => console.log("Server started"));

4. Start server

   node admin.js

Add Database

1. install dependencies

   npm i @admin-bro/mongoose mongoose

2. update admin.js

   // ============================================
   // Database
   const mongoose = require("mongoose");
   
   const ProjectSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
     title: {
       type:String,
       required: true,
     },
     description: String,
     completed: Boolean,
     created_at: { type: Date, default: Date.now },
   });
   
   const Project = mongoose.model("Project", ProjectSchema);
   
   // ============================================
   // Admin Bro
   const AdminBro = require('admin-bro')
   const AdminBroExpress = require('@admin-bro/express')
   const AdminBroMongoose = require('@admin-bro/mongoose')
   
   // use mongoose in AdminBro
   AdminBro.registerAdapter(AdminBroMongoose)
   
   // config
   const adminBroOptions = new AdminBro({
   	resources: [Project],
     rootPath: '/admin'
   })
   const router = AdminBroExpress.buildRouter(adminBroOptions)
   
   
   // ============================================
   // Server
   const express = require("express");
   const server = express();
   
   server
     .use(adminBroOptions.options.rootPath, router)
   
   // =============================================
   // Run App
   const run = async () => {
     await mongoose.connect("mongodb://localhost/adminbroapp", {
         useNewUrlParser: true,
         useUnifiedTopology: true
     });
   
     await server.listen(5500, () => console.log("Server started"));
   }
   
   run()

Customize

https://adminbro.com/tutorial-customizing-resources.html

1. Change Project menu name and add options to resource

const adminBroOptions = new AdminBro({
	resources: [
    { resource: Project, options: {
      properties: {
        description: { type: 'richtext' },
        created_at: {
          isVisible: { edit: false, list: true, show: true, filter: true }
        }
      }
   }},
  ],
  locale: {
    translations: {
      labels: {
        Project: 'My Projects'
      }
    }
  },
  rootPath: '/admin'
})