Building an Admin Console With Minimum Code Using React-Admin, Prisma, and Zenstack
Building a customer-facing application is exciting. But it's not much fun when it comes to the admin console part. However, almost every serious app requires some sort of admin console for operation needs. It doesn't need to be slick in design or have blazing-fast performance. The main focus should be reliability, cost-effectiveness, and extensibility.
There are many different types of admin consoles. In this post, we'll discuss the most common ones: those that allow non-technical people to make changes to the database and ensure proper permission management at the same time.
Each choice has its unique pros and cons. This post will focus on the 2nd, which tends to have the best balance between cost and quality for most real-world applications.
React-Admin is a React-based frontend framework for building admin applications that talk to a backend data API. It offers a pluggable mechanism for easily adapting to the specific API style of your backend.
