# nestjs-admin
**Repository Path**: ALeLe/nestjs-admin
## Basic Information
- **Project Name**: nestjs-admin
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No
## Statistics
- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2021-09-17
- **Last Updated**: 2021-09-17
## Categories & Tags
**Categories**: Uncategorized
**Tags**: None
## README
A generic administration interface for TypeORM entities
---
## Description
Ready-to-use user interface for administrative activities. Allows to list, edit, create, delete entities.
This is heavily, heavily inspired by [Django admin](https://djangobook.com/mdj2-django-admin/), from the concept to the API.
> This is still very much a work in progress. Your help is more than welcome!
> The API is still very unstable. Until a 1.x.x release, **expect breaking changes in minor versions**
**Full docs: https://nestjs-admin.com/**
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_All your entities in one place._ | _Create, update and delete entities with ease._
## Installation
Let's get you started with a minimal setup.
1. **Add nestjs-admin to your dependencies:**
```bash
yarn add nestjs-admin # With yarn
npm install nestjs-admin # With NPM
```
2. **Then add the provided `DefaultAdminModule` to your app modules:**
```ts
// src/app.module.ts
import { Module } from '@nestjs/common'
import { DefaultAdminModule } from 'nestjs-admin'
@Module({
imports: [TypeOrmModule.forRoot(), /* ... */, DefaultAdminModule],
/* ... */,
})
export class AppModule {
/* ... */
}
```
3. **Add the provided `AdminUser` to your orm config:**
The DefaultAdminModule exposes an AdminUser entity, which has credentials that allow you to login to the admin interface.
> There's no easy option to use your own user entity for now. If you have this requirement, open an issue so that we can help you.
```ts
// If you use an ormconfig.js
const AdminUser = require('nestjs-admin').AdminUserEntity
module.exports = {
/* ... */,
entities: [/* ... */, AdminUser],
// Alternatively:
// entities: [/* ... */, 'node_modules/nestjs-admin/**/*.entity.js'],
}
```
```bash
# If you use environment variables
TYPEORM_ENTITIES=your_existing_paths,node_modules/nestjs-admin/**/*.entity.js
```
4. **Create a first AdminUser to log in with**
```bash
# Create the AdminUser schema in database
npx ts-node node_modules/.bin/typeorm migration:generate -n "create-admin-user"
npx ts-node node_modules/.bin/typeorm migration:run
# Now you can create an AdminUser through the CLI
npx nestjs-admin createAdminUser
```
> You can create AdminUsers from the `nestjs-admin createAdminUser` CLI, or directly from the administration interface!
You can now login to access the admin interface at `/admin/login`!
5. **Register entities in the admin site**
```ts
// user.module.ts
import { TypeOrmModule } from '@nestjs/typeorm'
import { Module } from '@nestjs/common'
import { DefaultAdminModule, DefaultAdminSite } from 'nestjs-admin'
import { User } from './user.entity'
@Module({
imports: [TypeOrmModule.forFeature([User]), DefaultAdminModule],
exports: [TypeOrmModule],
})
export class UserModule {
constructor(private readonly adminSite: DefaultAdminSite) {
// Register the User entity under the "User" section
adminSite.register('User', User)
}
}
```
Check the [rest of the docs](./docs) for more details.
## Compatibility
| Library | Version |
| ------------------------ | ------- |
| @nestjs/common | ^6.0.0 |
| @nestjs/core | ^6.0.0 |
| @nestjs/platform-express | ^6.0.0 |
| @nestjs/typeorm | ^6.0.0 |
| typeorm | ^0.2.12 |
## Contributing
Any contribution is welcome. If you want to implement a feature, you need to know that we are following [django-admin's API](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/ref/contrib/admin/) as closely as possible. Why?
- It's been well-thought-out by smart people
- Python translates well to Typescript
- It allows us to not have to think about what the API should look like and just use Django admin as a list of desirable features
### Start the example app
This repo contains an example of how to use nestjs-admin. Here's how to use it:
```bash
# In a first terminal, run the database
cp .env.example .env
docker-compose up
# In a second terminal, compile the library
yarn install
yarn link
yarn start:dev
# In a third terminal, run the example app
cd exampleApp/
yarn install
yarn link nestjs-admin
yarn migration:run
yarn start:debug
```
You can now create an AdminUser (`yarn nestjs-admin createAdminUser`) to be able to login to `localhost:8000/admin`.
The code for the actual library is in `libs/nestjs-admin`.
### Tooling
If you use VSCode, a `.vscode/` is committed that contains a good configuration to contribute. In particular, it contains a config for a ready-to-use debugger.
### ADRs
You'll find [ADRs](https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/architecture_decision_record#suggestions-for-writing-good-adrs) in `docs/adr`