REST-ADMIN

An Powerful Admin Dashboard based on Vue.js and Boostrap v4.

REST-ADMIN is trying to make it easier to built an admin dashboard for any backend services. All you need to do is just provide a RESTful api for it.

Online Demo

http://rest-admin.genyii.com/admin/

username:password admin:admin

Screenshots

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Login Page	Data Table for users
Data Table for posts	Data Form for post
Custom Form	Sample Fields of posts

Features

• Based on the latest Bootstrap(v4) and Vue.js, it means you can easily change any skin based on bootstrap css framework.
• Plain vue.js project, can be used for any backend restful api.
• Powerful Data Table with sorting, pagination, searching, display images...
• Powerful Data Form Builder can display/edit any value of text, image, boolean...
• Fully support for Resource-based CRUD option.
• English based fully i18n support.
• Highly Configurable site info. Such as: site name, logo, Menu and footer...
• Production ready. It has been used in two projects in our company.

Quick Start

git clone https://github.com/typescript59/restAdmin.git
cd restAdmin
code . # open with vscode [optional]
npm i # or cnpm i

# start with local test api server
npm run test-api # start test api server
npm run local # start rest admin client

or you have an exists rest api endpot.

API_URI=http://localhost:5555/admin/api/ npm run dev

The default username and password of test-api is admin and admin

Build

API_URI=http://localhost:5555/admin/api/ npm run build

Then just copy /dist/admin folder to the anywhere.

There is a built-in restful api based on express for test.

Fields Definition

Used in listing tables and editing forms Default PRIMARY_KEY field is _id, feel free to change it in /src/config.json

Example:

{
  "_id": { "label": "ID" },
  "title": { "label": "Title" },
  "type": { "label": "Type", "type": "select", "options": [
    { "text": "Vue", "value": "vue" },
    { "text": "React", "value": "react" },
    { "text": "Angular", "value": "angular" },
  ]},
  "body": { "type": "html", "group": "Detail" },
  "steps": { "type": "array", "group": "Steps", "fields": {
    "name": { "label": "Name" },
    "date": { "label": "date" } 
  }},
  
  "_actions": { // define table view, it's optional.
    "buttons": { // define buttons as `false` to hide in actions colum
      "delete": false,
      "edit": false
    },
    "toolbar": { // define actions in top toolbar table view
      "extra": [ // add extra buttons
        { "to": "/form?uri=vouchers/generate", "label": "Generate Vouchers" } //properties of `<b-button>`
      ]
    }
  }
}

Field properties

• label Title for display
• cols column width, total is 12.
• input_cols column width of input control.
• group title for tabs in create/edit forms
• type Field type, accepted values and additional properties for some fields.
  • select raw html <select> tag from b-select of bootstrap-vue
    • options e.g. [{ "text": "Label", "value": "1" }]
  • select2 vue-select, like select2 in jQuery
    • options e.g. [{ "text": "Label", "value": "1" }]
  • tree vue-treeselect
    • options use text and value instead label and id e.g. [{ "text": "Label", "value": "1", "children": [ { "text": "Item1", "value": "2" } ] }]
  • date vue2-datepicker supports date range
  • switch A iOS-liked switch component
  • html An WYSIWYG html editor from vue-html5-editor
  • array Array values
    • fields child fields defination
    • is_table display as a table ?
  • radiolist
    • options e.g. [{ "text": "Label", "value": "1" }]
  • checkboxlist
    • options e.g. [{ "text": "Label", "value": "1" }]
  • checkbox
  • file File uploader
    • limit define file limit options of size in byets, e.g. { size: 1000000 }
  • image Image file uploader with preview.
    • limit define file limit options of width height and size in byets, e.g. { "width": 320, "height": 180, size: 1000000 }
  • audio like image
    • limit define file limit options of size in byets, e.g. { size: 1000000 }
  • video like image
    • limit define file limit options of size in byets, e.g. { size: 1000000 }
  • textarea
  • number
  • text
• required
• Any other properties accepted in https://bootstrap-vue.js.org/docs/components/form-input, please notice that every kind of field component has it's own properties.

APIs

Tips: check /api/index.js :p

Example Base Api Url: http://localhost:8088/admin/api

GET /site (url: http://localhost:8088/admin/api/site)

Get config data of site

• Returns

  {
    "name": "Site Name",
    "logo": "http://.../logo.png",
    "locale": "en-US", //or zh-CN
    "locale_switcher": false, //hide locale switcher
    "menu" : [
      {
        "name": "Home",
        "url": "/",
        "icon": "fa fa-home",
        // for home page
      },
      {
        "name": "Content",
        "title": true,
        // display as a delimiter
      },
      {
        "name": "Posts",
        "url": "/rest/posts",
        "icon": "fa fa-list",
        // url format of resource list: /rest/:resourceName      
      },
      {
        "name": "Config",
        "url": "/form?uri=site/settings",
        "icon": "fa fa-cogs",
        // a custom form.
      },
      {
        "name": "Logout",
        "url": "/login",
        "icon": "fa fa-lock",
        // for logout
      },
    ],
  }

POST /login

For admin user login

• POST DATA

  {
    "username": "admin",
    "password": "admin"
  }

• Returns

  {
    "user": {
      "username": "admin",
      ...
    },
    "token": "1o2u3h4oi2u3h4jkashdflsda"
  }

  or with validation errors

  must response 422 http status.

  {
    "name":"HttpException",
    "message":[
      { "field":"password", "message":"Incorrect password." }
    ]
  }

GET /:resource

Fetch all records of a resource. :resource means any resource name. e.g. /users, /posts...

• Returns IMPORTANT

  {
    "total": 80,
    "perPage": 10,
    "page": 1,
    "data": [
      {...},
      {...},
      {...},
    ]
  }

GET /:resource/grid

Fetch grid view config of a resource. :resource means any resource name. e.g. /users/grid, /posts/grid...

• Returns IMPORTANT

  {
    "searchModel": {},
    "searchFields": {
      render a searching form
      ...see Fields Definition...
    },
    "fields": {
      render a table view
      ...see Fields Definition...
    }
  }

GET /:resource/form

Fetch editing form config of a resource. :resource means any resource name. e.g. /users/form, /posts/form...

• Returns IMPORTANT

  {
    "model": {},
    "fields": {
      render a editing form
      ...see Fields Definition...
    }
  }

POST /:resource

create a resource

• POST DATA

  {
    "_id": "12341234",
    "title": "The New Title",
    ...
  }

• Returns

  {
    "_id": "12341234",
    "title": "The New Title",
    ...
  }

PUT /:resource/:id

update a resource

• POST DATA (Request Payload)

  {
    "_id": "12341234",
    "title": "The New Title",
    ...
  }

• Returns

  {
    "_id": "12341234",
    "title": "The New Title",
    ...
  }

DELETE /:resource/:id

delete a resource

• Returns

  {
    "success": true
  }

DELETE /:resource

delete all

• Returns

  {
    "success": true
  }

Custom Form ?

To render a custom form, you need to define a menu item in /site api, or add an extra button of toolbar in /:resource/grid.

There are two apis for a custom form:

1. Get form definition

• GET /site/settings
• Returns

  {
    "title": "Form Title",
    "fields": {
      ...see Fields Definition...        
    }
  }
  

2. Handle submission

• POST /site/settings
• Returns

  {
    "success": true,
    "message": "Well done!", //[optional] will show after form submited.
    "redirect": "/" //[optional] auto redirect after form submited, default is back to the last page.
  }

i18n

Check vu-i18n for detailed documentation.

REST-ADMIN gives built-in support for en-US and zh-CN, you can change translation files in /src/i18n/*.json.

Thanks to

• Vue.js and Bootstrap v4 based bootstrap-vue
• Nice UI from Core UI
• i18n component from vue-i18n