[WIP] QOR Article

pages/qor-admin-tips-and-tricks.md

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ tags: [go,dev,admin,qor]
 
 # Introduction
 
-## What is QOR and QOR Admin?
+## What is QOR?
 
 > QOR is a set of libraries written in Go that abstracts common features needed 
 > for business applications, CMSs, and E-commerce systems.
@@ -22,24 +22,33 @@ QOR is basically everything we need to run a full e-commerce website. But what
 interests us here is the admin interface. Let's say we're creating an API
 and store our data (stuff like your users, products, etc...) in a database. You
 just don't need QOR to do that, you can use whatever router you're used to work
-with for example. One thing to remember though is that QOR is using 
-[gorm](http://gorm.io/) to do most its processing, so if your project isn't 
-using it, it may be difficult to implement QOR Admin in your project. 
-
-QOR is a full framework, if you want to look at everything it can do, head to
-the [getqor website](https://getqor.com/) and prepare to be amazed because it
-can do so many awesome things:
+with for example. But QOR is a full framework, if you want to look at everything
+it can do, head to the [getqor website](https://getqor.com/) and prepare 
+yourself to be amazed because it can do so many things:
 
 ![qor features](/assets/qor-admin/qor-features.png)
 
-But let's get back to our admin interface.
+Although this article isn't sponsored by QOR or anything like that, I think it's
+a great piece of technology and the people behind it are quite amazing. They
+even have an [enterprise package](https://getqor.com/en/enterprise)!
+
+## QOR Admin?
+
 Frameworks like [Django](https://www.djangoproject.com/) give you an admin
 interface to manage your data. This is great because it allows you to display
 data in a web interface, modify them or execute one-shot actions on some
 records. For example, it's rather easy to create a CSV export of one of your
 tables in the form a single button that any admin can click on, thus avoiding
 the usual SQL query to export data, if you know what I mean.
 
+It also enables to modify data and more importantly **keep it consistent** by
+writing your business rules as part of your admin interface. So we can prevent
+someone from modifying one of our products and set the price to $0 (or 0€, or
+whatever the currency, you get my point). Or prevent data loss. Or set specific
+behavior for certain fields. The admin interface use case is then completely 
+different of a dashboard that does only "read" operations to generate insights
+like [Metabase](https://www.metabase.com/) (which is an amazing tool too!).
+
 So QOR Admin is a component of the QOR stack. And the great news is: You don't
 need the whole QOR stack to make QOR Admin work! Plus, let's face it, QOR Admin
 is really gorgeous with its material design theme (but that's subjective). The
@@ -51,7 +60,9 @@ following screenshot is from the [QOR Admin Demo](http://demo.getqor.com/admin):
 
 Although QOR Admin is an amazing open-source lib and product, sometimes the
 documentation lacks of a clear way to do things. This article's goal is to act
-as a kind of enhanced documentation and tutorial.
+as a kind of enhanced documentation and tutorial. We'll try to leverage the
+annoying steps of setting up QOR following its best practices and create some 
+kind of package that could be reused quickly without having to overthink things.
 
 # First Steps